Artist Sarah Frost studied hundreds of YouTube tutorials by little boys for little boys who make paper guns… lots of very detailed, very accurate models of guns. She’s recreated a whole paper and tape arsenal based on their instructional videos. Read more »
So, here’s that “preview” video of Harmony Korine‘s Venice Biennial project with James Franco riding in the parking lot of conflicting hip hop allusions and mugging for the camera in sepia-tinted “tough” mode. I believe we were promised live gunfire? Read more »
On Monday, the New York Post was forced to report on the massive outpouring of support for the Prospect Park West Bike lane, but today, gets back to its usual spinning. The tabloid says less people than ever are using the city’s expanding network of “controversial bike lanes” based on US Census numbers, but as Streetsblog pointed out long ago, that data isn’t all that accurate, since it only counts “people who bike as their primary mode of getting to work” and ignores the habits of recreational cyclists.
Earlier today, pranky activist group the Yes Men, posing as General Electric, issued a press release announcing that the company would be “gifting its entire 2010 tax refund, worth $3.2 Billion, to the US Treasury on April 18, Tax Day.” Amazingly, the Associated Press ran with the bogus story. And the timing could have been more perfect. Read more »
Yesterday, the Chinese government gave the world a big Tsk-Tsk! for supporting “criminal” artist Ai Weiwei… Just not to Dylan. There were no times a-changin’ or in the wind a-blowin’ in the censored playlist of the former rebel’s concert at the Beijing Workers’ Gymnasium. The Chinese Communist Party personally bought 2,000 of the 18,000 seats to make sure Bob didn’t pull a Bjork and drop a “Free Ai” bomb. No worries: The 69-year-old is all human rights’ed out and safe enough for China. Read more »
Yesterday, investment firm chairman Evgeny Yurchenko paid $2,882,500 for the Vostok 3KA-2 space capsule that orbited the Earth with a human dummy and a space mutt in ’61. Until now, it was the only capsule of its kind outside of Russia, privately owned by an anon American. Ahem-ahem. Evgeny wants everyone to know that he’s “thrilled” to “bring it back” and plop it in a museum somewhere, next to said space mutts’ taxidermy display. The visiting Russian moneybags are taking their toys and going home, one cracked rusty ball of national pride at a time.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and Councilor Cesar Palacio know how to clean up graffiti… not. (Photo: Daniel Dale/Toronto Star)
Nicky and Paris Hilton are auctioning themselves off to help benefit multiple sclerosis and the winning bidder will be entitled to lunch with the sisters in LA at The Ivy and a fancy shopping excursion on Robertson Boulevard.
With conditions at Fukushima officially reaching Chernobyl status, officials have cast a wider radius of possible contamination and the U.S. government is advising its citizens to remain at least 50 miles from the site. If there were a similar disaster at any of the three nuclear power plants in the Tri-State area and those same standards were applied, here’s what it would look like thanks to Gizmodo. As you can see, it would require evacuating tens of millions, creating traffic jams in just about every direction except for those fortunate enough to own boats.
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