Belgrade-born, Brooklyn-based street legend Boogie isn’t shooting Brooklyn gangs and Serbian skinheads right now, he’s got an adorable brood to be daddy to. Meanwhile, he’s been making a series of wet plate photographs of his friends in Belgrade. It’s a tedious process where Boogie plays alchemist, “mixing chemicals and pouring plates in a tiny dirty basement” and everyone comes out looking evil and possessed. Read more »
Crazy blog English Russia has a step-by-step guide to making absinthe… at home! It’s all very thorough, from infusing (“Don’t burn the herbs!”) to aging your drips of gunky green in a dark closet. What an awesome NOT! and classy NOT! idea. On the bright side, if you’re disappointed that absinthe cannot legally make you hallucinate fairies anymore, this jar-hooch just might.
Bodega Posts Best Loosies ‘PSA’ Ever
It’s not just the Illuminati that speak through symbols and esoteric language. Here’s one Brooklyn deli worker’s clever of way of informing customers they will only be selling cigarettes by the pack from now on, so go elsewhere for “loosies.” (Photo: ANIMALNewYork)
Cuban artist Geandy Pavon projected a giant image of Ai Weiwei on the Consulate General of China in Manhattan on Friday night. Since the diplomatic mission’s security always runs protesters off their sidewalk and into a designated patch of concrete across the street, this was appropriate. Read more »
The Rapture may have come and gone, but starting today, Armageddeon is being waged on smokers within the city’s pedestrian plazas, parks and beaches as Mayor Bloomberg’s severe new law takes effect. Since the NYPD won’t be enforcing the measure and there’s a shortage of Parks officers to issue the $50 fine, New Yorkers are being deputized to police their own. Read more »
Parting Shot
Even the most devoted Christians should be worried about the return of a 500-foot-tall Jesus. (Photo: Joe Schumacher/Flickr)
So, by now you’ve heard that ‘Melancholia’ director Lars Von Tier flapped his craaazey yap at Cannes about shooting Kirsten Dunst on Charlotte Gainsbourg hardcore porn and… yeah… that he’s a “Nazi.” Let’s just say it was awkward, but so was Lars finding out his parents weren’t Jews in the Holocaust but the really bad guys. As evidenced in this loopy rant, that little revelation fucked with his head. Read more »
Pro-pot groups in Colorado aren’t taking any chances with the 2012 ballot and so they’ve proposed eight initiatives calling for the full legalization of weed.
These wooden Heads with their sensory parts strapped, zipped and nailed shut are actually “self-portraits” by Nancy Grossman. Her famous series is a reaction to “anxiety and turmoil that weigh upon the individual and contemporary society” — a see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, smell-no-evil-but-leather-and-metal mentality. When it comes to artistic influences, the exhibit description is really ignoring the big, kinky elephant in the room. “Heads,” Nancy Grossman,” May 22 – Aug 15, MoMA PS1, Long Island City
Basically, everyone in Rome hates the abstract 16-foot-tall sculpture of Pope John Paul II created by artist Oliviero Rainaldi. It was placed in front of the city’s major train depot and some say it’s ugly, while others claim it looks nothing like him, but does resemble fascist dictator Mussolini. Even the Vatican is hating on it and according to the CNS (Catholic News Service), local newspapers polls show the public is against it 9 to 1. (Photo: zeropuntouno/flickr)
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