A street artist responds to multi-millionaire photographer Jay Maisel’s ridicilous lawsuit of chip-tunes/pixel artist Andy Baio by pasting this statement about fair use on the wall of his 70+ room mansion on Bowery and Spring. (Photo: Hyperallergic)
The NYPD is currently testing out a new device in low income areas of Brownsville, Brooklyn that could cause more harm than good: gunshot detectors. As the name suggests, the gizmos detect gunshots and point surveillance cameras in the relative direction of the loud bangs. The system then snaps photos of possible suspects, or the poor saps who happen to be in that area, and informs police. Read more »
The new group show at Frosch & Portmann Gallery hates painting. These artists use torn magazines, recovered images and found materials with perforated peepholes instead. The surrealist collagist Eva Lake has been lifting practice targets from gun ranges since the early ’70s. Jessie Henson’s cut-up family photos are part of a genre, like Rubén B’s disappearing Sasha Grey series, but you know, not sexy. Read more »
New York Lives interviewed author and illustrator Ricardo Cortés about his ‘Jury Independence’ pamphlet. Watch as he discusses jury nullification and how it’s one of those acts of civil disobedience that the people need to educate themselves about, because judges, prosecutors, or even defense lawyers never will.
Here’s a parody about MasterCard withholding $15 million in WikiLeaks Defense Fund donations, filmed according to the conventions of the credit card company’s own signature ad gag and featuring the notorious Australian himself. Read more »
Dutch artist Kuin Heuff is handy with a blade. These expressive portraits were eviscerated from painted canvases. From afar, they’ve got an Impressionist swirl to them, but up close, they’re extremely detailed and sharp. Heuff is almost infuriatingly crafty — especially to those who can’t even cut out a paper snowflake for shit, waaah — and makes most stencil artists look like hacks.
Although the notoriously misleading Post claims it was NYPD officers who were brutalized after a rap concert earlier this week, the videos offer a much different perspective, as do the hip hop impresarios who held the concert.
This weekend, the $50 all-you-can-watch MoviePass program launches in cinemas around San Francisco, presumably to save you money so you can spend it on popcorn and the required smart phone.
An American Airlines pilot could have easily ran over a turtle that was obstructing his takeoff at JFK Airport during takeoff yesterday and avoided any delays, but when he was given the option to have it removed by an air traffic controller, he light heartedly responded: “Suuure.” Read more »
Don’t expect the Voina saga to end any time soon. Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolayev were recently put on Russia’s “federal wanted list,” Voina’s Alexei Plutser-Sarno tells ANIMAL, but there will be more actions. Read on for details. Read more »
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