As the sports fans among you are probably well aware, the Dallas Mavericks beat the Miami Heat for the NBA’s top honors last night, a feat the Knicks couldn’t pull of this year or in 1994 for that matter. Anyhow, someone left New York’s team a well deserved memento at their hometown station.
Working in his signature style of simulated “street art” animations, South African artist Robin Rhode premieres his new, five-part series. It’s about a Dutch chair from the 1910′s that annihilates a piano and attacks the artist in military garb. See the clips’ surreal, “Buster Keaton-esque” humor and staccato movements “reminiscent of body-popping” at London’s White Cube gallery. See Robin Rhode’s ode to Ai Weiwei below. Read more »
Except the actual cigarettes of course, those still generate too much money, but that won’t stop the behavioral police from finding innovative ways to make smoking of said legal product unlawful. This time around, politicians have set their targets on adult drivers who light up with kids under 14 in the vehicle. And it won’t matter if the windows are rolled down or not. Read more »
French street artist/mosaic menace Invader recreated an iconic photo of REVS and COST for his solo show in La Générale, Paris. The sale of the artwork will benefit the production a new documentary about the two NYC graffiti legends. Read more »
Because surveillance cameras will solve all of NYC’s problems—crime, terrorism, traffic enforcement—Mayor Bloomberg and company are now looking to install them on street sweepers too. The Times says the measure is “aimed at taking the burden off traffic agents in enforcing alternative-side parking rules.” Isn’t that their primary duty? Next thing ya know, they’ll be performing tasks the city really needs, like directing traffic or something.
Designer Graham Smith’s ongoing project Brand Reversions takes some of the most recognizable commercial logos and alters them to advertise their competitors. “Vimeo” is spelled with YouTube-stylized visuals. Facebook and Twitter trade font and color styles. Your brain goes topsy turvy. Like our favorite Honest Logos from Viktor Hertz, this project has a message: shit’s all the same, in theory.
Today, BBC Two will screen a documentary with writer Terry Pratchett who is considering assisted suicide after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. In Choosing to Die, he travels to Switzerland’s Dignitas clinic where a 71-year-old motor-neurone sufferer drinks a cocktail of toxins and dies in his wife’s arms. Read more »
The co-founders of both Facebook (Chris Hughes) and LinkedIn (Reid Hoffman) were among the 2011 attendees according to this supposedly leaked list, which also includes bankers, CEOs, media moguls, government officials, heads of state, and royalty. Read more »
Ekaterinburg-based street artist Radya T livens up the Russian projects by spelling out “DEFENSE.” Reverse side: “ATTACK.” (Photo: Radya T/LiveJournal)
NYC-based, photorealistic stencil artist Logan Hicks returns with his biggest works yet and a new technique of anodizing aluminum by burning it with a pigment solution. Concentrated street light pops in the dark of his night streets and figures disappear into “unfinished” subways and tunnels. Included in the show are monochromatic portraits of African Chiefs whom Hicks met and photographed last year in Gambia. “Pretty Ugly,” Logan Hicks, Opened Jun 2, Opera Gallery, NYC
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