After spotting a real life hobo earlier this week, the New York Times continues its foray into the reportage of activities not traditionally enjoyed by the paper’s readership and for this latest installment discovered a “poor man’s golf range.” No pricey memberships or advanced bookings are necessary, just a body of water, some used golf balls, “trash picked” clubs, and most importantly, “a fifth of Bacardi rum and some pineapple juice.” Now this is a sport I can appreciate.
Here’s a 5 min bit of Fight For Your Right Revisited which premiered last night and its fisted to the brim with celeb cameos, even more slow-mo glass breaking, superfluous Sevigny, something about restauranting with Ted Danson, smoke clouds and cowbell. Read more »
Not only did the President of Russia get caught on camera rigidly swaying his limbs in semi-rhythmic contortions, he was doing it to an anti-Patriotic 1990′s pop song wherein a Russian girl is wishing for an “American Boy” to permanently expat her ass to the US. Read more »
Environmental protest group Liberate Tate commemorated the Deepwater Horizon explosion yesterday by covering one of their own in oil-like goop inside Tate’s classical sculpture exhibit room. Read more »
Four artistic vandals covered this shattered brick wall in Ekaterinburg, Russia with the slogan Соберись, which means “get together,” as in “get together” to paint this epic thing. (Photo: Radya/LiveJournal)
Thank goodness for the ACLU. The defenders of the Constitution are calling attention to the Michigan State Police for using a gadget that can download personal data from the cell phones of persons they pull over… even if they haven’t been charged with a crime. Called “extraction devices,” the gizmos are capable of capturing “text messages, photos, video, and even GPS data” reports CNET. Ironically, the company that makes the rights-trampling machine refuses to release any info on it.
Viktor Hertz previously scored with his pictogram movie posters and there he is again with a series of Honest Logos accurately representing the actual purpose of the companies behind their very recognizable graphic trademarks. They’re all pretty shaming of everything you drive, watch, click or shove in your mouth… except for that IMDB remix. Nerd power!
Quite possibly. The Los Angeles Times reports that two “French nationals” were busted with “buckets of grout and pieces of tile” in Little Tokyo. The LAPD believes that one of them may indeed have been the semi-anonymous street artist Invader. He was in town for MOCA’s “Art in the Streets” exhibition and for the sake of keeping it real, has been putting up his signature work outside of the museum as well. According to the police, there’s been a sharp increase in vandalism near the venue since the show opened. Consequently, the pair were let go while authorities investigated and its now believed they flew back to France. (Photo: waltarrrrr/flickr)
When Marx’s “religion is the opium of the masses” slogan was crazy popular, the Soviets were getting everyone off the Eastern Orthodox Jesus crack, whether they liked it or not. Enter Bezbozhnik (“Heathen” or “Godless”) magazine of the late, hooked-on-Stalin ’20s, spreading equal opportunity propaganda and damning all major religions. Oh, and USA’s racism and capitalism, while they were at it. See what Christ’s got on tap in the vintage covers above.
Finally, the MTA is good at something. NYC the Blog notes that the transit agency has produced some stunning time lapse videos, this one is of the Triborough Bridge, and uploaded them to their official YouTube channel. Watch your fare dollars at work.
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