The ongoing series from photographer David Welch Material World treats artifacts of contemporary consumer culture as readymades, stacking the crap we compulsively accumulate into large, surrealist heaps. See little pink things breeders buy for their perpetually amnesiac babies, towers of old, new, now old again television sets and a greasy cornucopia horn of junk food built into “pseudo monuments or totems.” Hyperbolical is it? Ok, scoff. Bet you’re weekly Googling “iPad 3″ though.
According to a shocking new report by subway track fire starter and freebie newspaper, Metro, there’s loads of people getting drunk on the Lower East Side. The neighborhood is a hotspot for partygoers and apparently, “girls” vomiting out of cab windows. Police have responded to the revelry by issuing summonses and letting their horses shit all over the street.
China-based hackers temporarily took down Change.org’s Call for the Release of Ai Weiwei petition with a denial-of-service attack. Don’t be surprised: Chinese government’s tech hounds have a documented record of DDoS attacks on expat dissidents and a “notorious pattern” of internet monitoring human rights activists. Read more »
Ukrainian FEMENistas’ second topless Chernobyl-themed protest of the year involved negative campaigning, “Cancer of Democracy” sign waving, gas masks, arrests, light prison time, fines and head injuries. See them get roughly dragged off again, but beware that you won’t get the full effect of the writhing and passionate wreath-wagging from the photos: They also squeal like banshees. (NSFW) Read more »
Parting Shot
Poster Boy practices his improvisational skills on the NYC transit system. Check the close up: Read more »
Tune in to EVR tonight and listen as hardcore’s Black N Blue Takeover does its 100th show. Where else can you hear Rancid’s Lars Fredrickson talk about how he once had to wipe his ass with a cat piss stained newspaper?
NYC’s hypocritical mayor had this to say about politicians who recklessly litter the city with their campaign posters and then find ways to skirt the penalties: “If elected officials don’t follow the law, what hope is there for everybody else? I always thought that elected officials should have to be held to a higher standard.” Forget a higher standard. How about applying the same standard and make them face the criminal prosecution street artists do when they’re caught for doing exactly the same thing? (Photo: Mediaeater/flickr)
Since John Kennedy Toole committed suicide ten years before A Confederacy of Dunces would be published in 1980, never in his wildest dreams would he image his New Orleans anti-champ could be merged with the Haters Gonna Hate meme. See that, a new, beautifully prim American Psychos cover and more in Gallery1988′s latest hefty stack of artists remixing printed matter. “Required Reading: Limited Edition Posters Inspired by Classic Novels,” Group Show, Apr 15 – Apr 30, Gallery1988: Melrose, Los Angeles
New York City has plenty of homeless people, but hobos? Usually, the only proof of their existence comes by way of folksy tags on freight trains, however, the New York Times managed to track down a “honest-to-goodness ramblin’ man” in Riverside Park. The 48-year-old, in stereotypical fashion, told the reporter he was looking to “hop a train outta here.” Apparently, he’s not a big fan of the city and would never stoop so low as to ride the Chinatown bus. (Photo: ian reid/flickr)
Designer Wayne Dorrington has created this extremely thorough infographic to detail the happenings in Star Wars Episode V so you can see the Empire striking back in an ordered outline of minimalist icons, arrows and thought bubbles with further informative icons and arrows within. Fellow young ones unfamiliar with the epic and its Cold War subtext may refer to Dorrington’s previous work on Harry Potter, you babies.
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