Since he has only been mildly vandalizing ads for a little over a year, the “Moustache Man” is the last street artist we expect to be given the Taiwanese animation treatment. He’s just not that prolific. It’s amazing what a well publicized arrest can do for someone’s “career.”
Less than 24 hours after Times Square was shuttered so cops could courageously remove empty luggage that was left on the street, the area was once cordoned off because a clearly disturbed man climbed atop a light pole and started rapping. He refused to come down and the NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit responded with a ladder and one of those air cushions stunt men use. Read more »
Here’s the international trailer for Antoine Viviani’s multi-platform art flick In Situ. It streams next month, promises to revolutionize the way we experience documentary film and looks just gorgeous. Read more »
The Chinese government is reportedly demanding $1.85 million in “evaded taxes and fines” from dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Since his release, Ai is under constant surveillance and forbidden to use Twitter or talk to the media. Security goons have just prevented him from meeting an artist friend at a park because it “wasn’t part of the deal.” Read more »
You can never be too careful in knee-jerk America where something is trying to kill you around every corner, so when a “suspicious package” was found at the “Crossroads of the World” earlier this evening, overreaction was the only option. The NYPD sealed off the entire area to traffic until they realized it was just a crappy piece of luggage with no bombs or contents inside for that matter. Read more »
LA graffiti crews offer some semblance of relevance to the new Transformers movie by way of a bombed-out billboard. (Photo: Ironlak)
In the twisted world we live in, LEGAL drugs like oxycodone and vicodin are now more abused than illicit ones. “The problem is more serious these days than heroin, than crack, than methamphetamine,” said Senator Chuck Schumer. Read more »
Late last week, Buju Banton was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for conspiracy charges related to a cocaine deal the DEA says he set up. If credited with good behavior, his defense attorney, David Oscar Marus, thinks the dancehall superstar will end up serving a little more than half that time and that’s exactly what he plans on doing. Banton has already taken up classes and plans on pursuing a master’s degree. Read more »
Before “blogs” and “Facebook” and kids these days self-publishing their adolescent make-outs, there was Ed Templeton. The pro skateboarder-turned-artist’s series captures slobbering children and almost-adults with “candid realism.” Enjoy the awkward artifacts of ravenous puberty, now on view at the Half Gallery, and try not to think about Kids. “Teenage Kissers,” Ed Templeton, Jun 23 – Jul 25, Half Gallery, NYC
Notorious British documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (Kurt & Courtney and Biggie & Tupac) is screening his untitled Sarah Palin exposé for buyers this week in LA. Here’s a fun clip/a terrible endorsement for Blackberry. Read more »
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