In 2009, the Cajun Boy wrote about Troy Davis, a Georgia man who was dubiously convicted of murdering a police officer and sentenced to death. Today, the high court ignored the preponderance of doubt in the case and rejected his appeal, allowing prosecutors to move forward with his execution. That is, once the DEA gives them back their sodium thiopental. Read more »
Photographer Sharon Beals’s new book of Nests: Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them is very wooow-nature and a little bit I’m-glad-I’m-not-a-bird. See their DIY ethic and engineering ingenuity, latching onto to swinging plants and weaving nests out of feathers, seashells, newspaper and trash. Baby house wrens live the “do-or-die life” and have two weeks to learn to fly and feed. That skeleton-layered nest is what happens when they don’t. Sad stuff. More here.
I’m by no means a birther and cringe every time a prominent Republican drags down the decorum of this presidency by questioning Barack Obama’s citizenship, but the time has come for him to make the original birth certificate public. This “issue” has basically become the GOP’s politically correct way of calling the president the n-word without any of the racist trappings, while upping the ante from a ‘you’re not one of us’ whisper to a ‘you’re not one of U.S.’ message. Read more »
Here’s what the Times Square station looked like 25 years ago. The footage was shot with a 16mm film camera in June of ’86, about three years before the MTA officially implemented its “clean train” policy and took subway cars festooned with graffiti out of service. Also of interest, signs for the “K” and “CC” trains. Read more »
Seven more weeks to the Rapture, you guys! So says the newly launched website of the crowbar-wielding trucker Kathy Folden who destroyed Enrique Chagoya’s The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals at the Loveland Museum. There’s a ten page treatise on the “incident” (“I know I will be rewarded, above the satisfaction I got from ripping such an offense to shreds”), extensive evidence that Bill Gates is the Antichrist (he’s got a “bionic brain implant to directly connect him with his worldwide computer networks” and “gets his neighbors drunk so he can see them naked”) and many hat tips to Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. Gasp. Now, for some art criticism… Read more »
Even with its recent $376 million runway renovation, JFK Airport is inundated with air traffic, meanwhile, right across the bay, Floyd Bennett Field is sitting pretty and mostly still. The AP daydreams about reopening the historic Brooklyn airfield that closed in the early 70s and is now more likely to find bikers buzzing around its runways than planes, although occasionally, some do land there. Despite its decommission, the property is well maintained and owned by the National Park Service, making a revival unlikely, but this is NYC and stranger things have happened. (Photo: ixtayul/flickr)
Ukrainian activists of FEMEN are mixing it up with a new set of protest tits, the inked edition: complete with tattoos, nipples and cupcakes. More specifically, cupcake tattoos “cherry”-topped with nipples. Clearly, someone who could stand the needling of their underside-boobage is tough enough to stand against government corruption (this time, inefficient criminal investigations of ex-president Leonid Kuchma and a journalist’s murder). See also stomach, left to right: “No Gain,” “No Pain.” Poetry. (NSFW) Read more »
That’s not Photoshop. That’s some creative DIY light stenciling from Hamburg, Germany. (Photo/technique: Alexander Weber)
Here’s another big batch of Swedish designer Viktor Hertz’s minimalist pictogram posters. If you get a kick from Inception distilled to a tilting chair and falling man icon, you can even buy it. Kudos to Viktor for going with the pictogram of the fire extinguisher bludgeoning for the Irreversible poster and that 8-minute uncut rape thing, because yikes. Also, drainaaage!
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