Since the advent of the fax machine, every few years, someone postulates about the kind of technology that will render bike messengers obsolete… to no avail. Like an endangered species that refuses to die, nothing can really kill them off and ironically, certain human advancements are ensuring their survival. Take video data for example. It’s still a lot easier to have terabytes sent over via bike than the internet. Read more »
Mayor Bloomberg offered President Obama some really bad advice for attracting GOP support while appearing on Fox News: “The president has got to start inviting people over for dinner. He’s got to play golf with them.” HA!
This mysterious new artwork is a direct response to the most recent destruction of an Andres Seranno’s Piss Christ print in France, or, rather, to our collective profiteering from the controversy and “real human conflict.” Piss Christ gets smashed: The media gets attention, the fundamentalists mobilize supporters and Seranno gets even more famous. Enter The Resurrection of Piss Christ – a completely anonymous, deliberately derivative image of Jesus in urine – a free web art object that you can freely download, distribute and abuse as you wish. Brilliant! No?! Send your death threats here.
Anarchist art collective Voina is re-gifting 50,000 rubles ($1,800) of Banksy’s problematically anonymous, donated bail money towards legal fees of Sergey, Daniil and Vitaliy, members of an autonomous anarcho-comunism movement. They are facing a possible seven year imprisonment for vandalizing an STD awareness ad on February 1, by modifying it to warn against Russia’s “political elite.” Read more »
This photo of Libyan rebel fighter rolling a burning tire into a room of hiding loyalist troops was taken by photographer Chris Hondros during the last three days before he was killed in mortar fire. (Photo: Chris Hondros/The Big Picture)
For her Landscape Series, Laura Ortiz Vega photographs graffiti in Mexico City then re-creates the imagery with the artisan techniques of the Huichol Indians using painted threads glued with a natural wax called cera de Campeche. Read more »
As you may have heard, the NYPD is in a bit of hot water over a ticket fixing scandal, whereby scores of officers have been magically making traffic citations go away as a courtesy to VIPs, the well connected, and even fellow cops. Read more »
NYC Park Department’s press release announcing Ai Weiwei’s public art display at the Pulitzer Fountain on Fifth and 59th is forgetting something… something important… like that Ai hasn’t been heard from since he was arrested and detained by the Chinese gov on April 3rd under the pretense of ridiculous accusations like illegal distribution of pornography and plagiarism. Read more »
Today is Earth Day. Now 41 years in existence, its origins can be traced back to Gaylord Anton Nelson, a Democratic U.S. senator from Wisconsin who held the first event on April 22nd, 1970. Read more »
Photographer Josh Dehonney tells ANIMAL that his entire 2011 Vacant series was shot within a 10-mile radius of his residence in Hamilton, New Jersey and there are a lot more eerie, empty commercial properties in the area. There are no cars at the Chevy dealership. They’re no diners at that all American diner. Read more »
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