Earlier today, NASA announced where it would be sending its retiring fleet of space shuttles and it looks like NYC will get an orbiter after all. The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum won the honor of entombing Enterprise. It carries the distinction of being the first space shuttle ever built and the only one that never actually made it into space. Exciting! It was basically a test model. Also: screw you Yuri!
The Hypothetical Development Organization has a few ideas in mind for the derelict sites of New Orleans. Part of the project involved wheatpasting “coming soon” posters for the Museum of Self with a giant “Like” thumb up portruding from its glass fasade, a plastic tower hive of “high-tech snooze pods” and other fantastical structures. Kudos for inspiring urban renewal, the WTF way. Read more »
Moscow-based painter Konstantin Batynkov delivers Apocalyptic landscapes just the right way: in surreal monochrome and ridiculous war scenes. Smoke-filled skies are dotted with paratroopers! Disjointed Kremlin is stalked by disproportionate shadows of soldiers and giant reptiles! Read more »
In a Newsweek article penned by Dennis Quaid, the actor admits that getting addicted to cocaine in the 80s is one of his biggest regrets, which is hard to believe… that’s when he produced some of his best work. He writes about the drug’s popularity back then, in Hollywood especially: Read more »
Now fighting for official recognition, Sweden’s new Missionary Church of Kopism “worships” the “sacred” act of copying and sharing information. The religious group of radical pirates demand an end to their persecution by influential “copyright believers.” Yes, it’s real. Read more »
After the City Council once again ignored voters and approved renaming the Queensboro Bridge in honor of still living former mayor Ed Koch, the current mayor Mike Bloomberg followed suit. Read more »
In honor of April 11 celebrating the release of prisoners from WWII concentration camps, “FEMEN pacifists tore off their military attire as a symbol of protest against the Nazi revival in Ukraine,” alluded to Battleship Potemkin and declared Kiev, Ukraine to be “the city that most affected by the Fascist plague.” Read more »
New York City was a rough place in the ’70s according to this wildly EPIC historical video recently uploaded to YouTube that offers a glimpse of the Big Apple when it was rotten to the core. It was a time when crime, graffiti, and drugs permeated both the streets and the transit system. Read more »
Want to watch an Air France jumbo jet thrash a smaller Delta jet operated by Comair while taxiing at JFK Airport? Of course you do. NBC New York scored raw footage of the incident that occurred Monday night and somehow resulted in zero injuries despite there being passengers on both aircraft. Read more »
Anti-war protesters reenact Guantanamo in Union Square over the weekend. (Photo: Gamma Blog)
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