A passenger aboard a commercial flight from New York City to Palm Beach captured this awesome shot (and video) of the space shuttle Endeavor as it broke the cloud cover and zoomed toward space for its final mission. In July, NASA will officially retire the shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis. (Photo: @Stefmara)
Here are two latest videos from Ukrainian topless protest girl-crew FEMEN, both directed by a non-Ukrainian non-girl. The “Forbidden Zone” action vid of their action pretty much kills Chernobyl porn. Their music video is infectious. NSFW Read more »
Remember East London graffiti kid CARTRAIN who stole pencils from Damien Hirst’s Pharmacy at the Tate as revenge for Hirst the Ripper seizing his diamond skull collage work? Recently, CARTRAIN and VAGABOND hit the museum again and pulled a Banksy-style “hang-and-run.” Read more »
With two hours, a band-saw and some reflective material, the Broken City Lab collective made this instant faux-neon signage in a puddle in Ontario, Canada. (Photo: Broken City Lab)
For all of 2010, David Shapiro drew and painted exact reproductions of his utility bills, employment checks, grocery receipts and ticket purchase stubs in pen and ink, color pencil and gouache with extreme detail. 12 vellum scrolls of scrutinized banality – one for each moth – are presented at his solo show as part of the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for a New City. “Money Is No Object,” David Shapiro, May 7 – Jun 19, Sue Scott Gallery, NYC
This past Thursday night, I found this document sitting in the garbage can in front of the NYPD’s Manhattan South Task Force stationhouse on 42nd Street. And by sitting, I mean, it was the only piece of trash in the bottom of the can. (Don’t ask me why I look in garbage cans — just a habit.) But this document appears to be something pretty substantial. Yet, there it was, in pristine shape, with specific locations and deployment instructions for the NYPD’s Chemical Ordnance, Biological, Radiological Awareness (COBRA) taskforce to undertake should a vengeful Osama Bin Laden sympathizer decide to retaliate on Times Square. Read more »
Here’s a brand new video from glossy art-erotica Jacques Magazine featuring a long blond Lea in a white leotard riding trough “a country club” to In the Hall of the Mountain King – classical music’s most suspicious theme – like she’s up to no good… (NSFW). Read more »
Artist Simon Evan makes art from scotch-taped scraps of paper, draws flowcharts of Daddy Issues, writes letters from William Shakespeare to the future. Central to his floor plan of Shitty Heaven is the “Abyss of Excessive Enjoyment and Trauma” and just around the corner, “dead relatives live through the money they have left” in the Gym. See his meticulous, funny, text-based work at “Shitty Heaven,” Simon Evans, May 12 – Jun 11, James Cohan Gallery, NYC
After launching its jerky bike PSAs, NYC’s Department of Traffic is now taking aim at the real threat to the public: motor vehicles. Despite a certain tabloid’s bold attempts to make bikes into fearful pedestrian killers, the statistics don’t lie and it’s still drivers that are the most dangerous. So as part of its ongoing “That’s Why It’s 30 (mph)” campaign, the city is programming electronic road signs to flash the image of a skeleton and the words “SLOW DOWN.”
At the budget appropriation hearing this week, Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) “questioned” the National Endowment for the Arts for supporting the San Francisco Mime Troupe and an international accordion festival. Read more »
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