The highest court in Massachusetts ruled that officers can no longer order someone out of their car and perform a warrantless search merely because it reeks of smoked weed. Chief Justice Roderick Ireland cited the ballot passed by voters in ’08 and wrote: “Ferreting out decriminalized conduct with the same fervor associated with the pursuit of serious criminal conduct is neither desired by the public nor in accord with the plain language of the statute.” Agreed!
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This commercially-commissioned money-gami series from artist Won Park and Seattle-based YIU Studio doesn’t have that pointed social criticism and counter-nationalism of Dan Tague’s crumpled dollar works, but it does have colors other than green. Borrowing hues from non-American currency, they’re… cute, right? This Angry Two Dollar Bear is the best. We’d love to see him fold a bald eagle out of National Collector’s Mint fake money.
According to the Daily News, lawmakers in Albany are turning kids into pussies. They passed some law in 2009 that was meant to close a legal loophole involving day camps. It resulted in the New York State Department of Health creating a list of “organized games” that present a “significant risk of injury” and should a camp schedule two or more of these activities, could face increased regulations. Read more »
Well, Patti Smith did tell all young artists to get out of New York and “find a new city,” so let’s set sail to Disneyland, arrr! Annie Leibovitz is working her way out of debt with this latest series of Disney Park ad portraits. The Pirate Patti and Johnny Depp insert will run in May’s Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, InStyle and People. Read more »
So, here’s “New York artist” Scott LoBaido, who traveled to Kansas so he can paint this devil-incest-orgy outside the Westboro Baptist Church to protest and “alert the creative masses to use their 1st Amendment rights.” Hold the parade. There he is with the same crappy plywood canvases by the proposed Islamic community center in Manhattan, as the anonymous “John Q. Public” drawing an evil Muslim candy-baiting clown, orating: “They have a right to build it Constitutionally, but that doesn’t mean it should be built on this battlefield.” Read more »
Veng and OVERUNDER brightened up construction barriers at Stillwell and Surf Avenues with nostalgic scenes of Coney Island’s yesteryear when people actually visited. (Photo: Luna Park/Flickr)
There are 3,800 employees who currently manage Chernobyl’s restricted Zone. They check their hands and feet for radioactive contamination before the train home, but, relatively, life goes on as normal. For the 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, NYC’s Ukrainian Museum takes you where you really don’t want to go, but these guys do. Gotta feed the kids. Read more »
The UK’s version of the Pentagon did a study on UAVs and concluded that their increasing role in warfare could to lead to an “incremental and involuntary journey towards a Terminator-like reality.” Well, that sounds positively frightening. Says the report: “Autonomous systems will, in effect, be self-aware and their response to inputs indistinguishable from, or even superior to, that of a manned aircraft.” Read more »
Kids on Long Island are mostly bored assholes that live in homogeneous enclaves devoid of any culture and so this recently uploaded YouTube video by a group who say they were “inspired” by the Oak Beach serial killer case isn’t all that surprising. It’s par for the course.
It’s hard not to be suspicious of the “psycho-sexual thriller” tag when a flick like Black Swan gets dubbed as one over a hyped up, watered-down lesbian fancy. But, maybe, the Cannes-selected Sleeping Beauty is actually psycho-sexual and a thriller. Read more »
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