This summer, watch Crooklyn at the Brooklyn Bridge, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in Bryant Park and catch more movies from this nifty list of outdoor screenings in NYC. Next winter, you can look back on this fondly.
Here is Soviet Tank No. 23, a monument vandalized by artist David Černý in 1991 when it was painted pink and topped with a giant, phallic finger. Yesterday, we compared it to “Bulgarian Banksy’s” recently cartooned statues of Red Army soldiers. The tank was just sailed down the Vltala River in Prague to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Czechoslovakia. Read more »
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More reasons to love Canada: “Nova Scotia’s Community Services Department is reviewing a decision that would require it to provide financial help to a woman who grows marijuana for her own medical purposes.”
It’s a good thing the City Council did something right two years ago when it shot down an idea to turn a rundown armory in the Bronx into a shopping mall, because fast forward to 2011 and Michael Green, former president of the Century Road Club Association, has a much better idea: make it a velodrome and BMX track. Read more »
Bulgarian Monument to the Red Army “Vandalized”
Over the weekend, the citizens of Sofia, Bulgaria awoke to find a public monument to Red Army defaced by an unknown interventionist. The statues of Soviet soldiers who “liberated” Bulgaria in 1944 were painted as Superman, Ronald McDonald, Santa Claus and other pop culture icons of capitalist Americana. Below it, a graffiti caption read: “In step with the times!” Read more »
Here’s another street campaign in support of detained dissident artist Ai Weiwei. These crude but on point “DISOBEY” flyers have been seen wheatpasted around Hackney, London over the weekend, thanks to the efforts of an artist from the New Bedlam Art Asylum group. Download the flyer here to spread the word, if you can’t make do with Tangerine’s Who’s Afraid of Ai Weiwei? stencils.
For the first time ever, Nathan’s Famous held a hot dog eating contest in China as a lead up to its official competition on July 4th in Coney Island. Chris Lam emerged as the victor and set a “country-record” according to the Wall Street Journal, by scarfing down 16 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Read more »
Here’s an ongoing project from pop artist Mr. Whaite. He’s been chugging out animated neon signage for classic blockbusters of yesteryear all month! Click the thumbnails to see the Empire striking back, Vincent and Mia twisting at Jack Rabbit Slim’s and his latest, the suspenseful thump in a glass as dinosaur-related doom approaches in Jurassic Park. We’re all burned out on pictogram film posters, but these concept “signs” have a bzzzz to them.
With people spilling their precious metals all over the Diamond District—which is more of a fine gem ghetto—one man has taken to the street to extract their droppings. Meet Raffi Stepanian. Quoted at length by the New York Post, the urban “prospector” took the tabloid on a sidewalk excavation. Although it’s not clear how much he made on that outing, in less than a week, the miner claims he raked in over $800, which should motivate just enough copycats to ruin his chances of that ever happening again.
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