In a 7-2 decision (PDF doc), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors. Justice Antonin Scalia, who is usually a right leaning prick, wrote the majority opinion in favor of free speech protection and basically said that the country has a tradition of exposing kids to grisly literature. Read more »
An innovative proposal to turn the East River into a public pool is progressing forward steadily. With 18 days still left to go in their Kickstarter campaign, the + Pool team has already raised well over their initial $25,000 goal to “begin physical tests of the filtration materials.” However, it’s still going to take another $500,000 to build a proper model that can be officially presented to city officials and millions more to construct the actual pool, but still, well done.
This blueberry liquorish Darth Vader, strawberry creme Marilyn and cimarrón and rum Che head-shaped ice cream from Russian advertising company STOYN is very exciting, da. Here’s the sad back story on the Mayakovsky: The cranberry and vodka flavored tribute to this badass poet futurist was sculpted using his actual death mask as reference… and then, he got mistaken for Voldemort. Read more »
Like so many other self-entitled assholes riding NYC transit, this woman not only feels justified in broadcasting music on her iPod’s treble-y speaker instead of using earphones, but also lashing out anyone who tells her otherwise, the bus driver included. Listen to her profanity laced tirade sprinkled with a tinge of racism.
Today in ridiculous auction news, a 132-year-old, two-by-three-inch tintype of exaggerated outlaw Billy the Kid was purchased for $2.3 million plus fees at the 22nd Annual Old West Show & Auction in Denver… by a Koch. Read more »
In a recent action dubbed “White on Red,” activist artists marched 90 steps in Kremlin’s Red Square and threw white flags at Lenin’s mausoleum, to the dislike of local police. They were arrested for a few hours. UPDATE: They are not part of Other Russia as previously reported. Read more »
Polish street artist Peter Fuss offers some pharmaceutical commentary on the transfiguration of Christ. (Photo: Peter Fuss)
James “Whitey” Bulger was not only a notorious crime boss, but also a high level FBI informant whose “relationship” with the agency ended up shaking it to the core, making him quite the complicated gangster. And so it’s not too surprising that his “criminal tree” is as well. See it big here.
While most reasonable thinking people are aware of just how fabricated Fox News is, who would have thunk the parent network’s manipulation extends to their “reality” shows too? A Reddit user noticed something funny about the MasterChef crowd while watching an episode, which was aptly described as “television sorcery.” See anything suspicious?
UK artist James Cauty’s series A Riot in a Jam Jar stages teeny, tiny scenes of police brutality and general disorder in… jam jars, naturally. Scenes like “French Extremist Students Contained” and “Fees Riot, Parliament Square” come with moving parts, internal lights and lots of violence. Oh my god, they killed Banksy! Read more »
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