Since 2008, Facebook has provided detailed access to at least 24 personal profiles to the FBI, DEA and ICE, without the consent and often the notification of the users or their friends, which may not be constitutional. The number of Facebook search warrants granted by judges has already doubled since last year. Read more »
Photographer Janine “Jah Jah” Gordon is suing Ryan McGinley and Levi’s for stealing her ideas and the “style, idea, composition, backgrounds, foregrounds, expressions, gestures” from her work. She claims he’s been ripping her since the ’90s and wants $30,000 for each of the 150 times he’s allegedly done so. Read more »
Since Netflix announced that they’re splitting their services into “Streaming Only” and “DVD Rental Only” ($7.99 each) and current streaming/renting customers $9.99 per month price is going up to $15.98, their customers are pi-i-i-issed. Their official Facebook announcement post has generated 30,000 angry comments. Read more »
A vast, color-coded display of spray paint is laid out in the streets of Ekaterinburg in preparation for street art and graffiti-related festivities. (Photo: T. Radya)
Here’s what urban exploring looks like through the lens of off limits thrill seekers from the UK. Although a bit heavy on dialogue and a wee short on the dangerous places they talk about infiltrating, this is just the first episode of Crack The Surface, so we’ll hold off a full critique until we see the rest of the series, featuring crews from all over the world.
Although this French Cuisse series of neatly sprawled ingredients and food porn is a straight up rip-off of Carl Leiner’s IKEA cookbook, teenage culinary student William Matthew Valle did a good job, so here. Drool away. See small lumps and stacks of sweet stuff get reborn as marbled brownie-cheesecake, with un-random raspberry smear. French food tends to lends itself to simplicity. Mmminimalist.
The Associate Press recently fired freelance photographer Miguel Tovar for Photoshoping this snap of kids playing soccer in Argentina. That suspiciously solid ground cloud that looks like the Smoke Monster? It’s cloned dust, covering up the photographer’s shadow. Read more »
Here’s recently uploaded footage of aerial artist Seanna Sharpe in NYPD custody (:50 mark) after her crowd-stopping stunt high above the Williamsburg Bridge on Monday evening. Read more »
Last year, I interviewed Marina Abramović’s chair and now that Damien Hirst’s “pickled, rotting shark sold as art” is Tweeting, I’m obligated to investigate. Here’s what @Hirst_Shark has to say. Read more »
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