Here are some merry gents skating in a freshly whitewashed pool on boards equipped with spraycans, as masterminded by UK-based street artist D*Face. See ‘em scribble it up like a drunken spirograph! Read more »
Fresh clucking fodder for fellow film geeks: Spike Lee is in talks to direct the remake of the South Korean, Kafka-esque, Greek tragedy-style (read: very fucked up) revenge tale Oldboy. Read more »
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Graffiti crews BTM and AL play word games above an empty lot in Chinatown. (Photo: Jake Dobkin/Flickr)
Berlin-based street artist D Tagno has mechanized train vandalism with a new instrument — Morphogenetic Field Device Little Boy. When set off, the deceptively rigged machine systematically sprays neat stripes all along the length of the train. Read more »
Following the arrest of a teenage “laser hooligan” who caused an eye injury to a pilot flying over the city of Grozny in Chechnya, President Ramzan Kadyrov has outlawed the sale of laser pointers. Read more »
The tape-deck lives!.. in augmented reality street art. QRadio is a new interactive piece from Berlin-based artist Sweza. The boombox’s built in QR-code turns your smartphone into a spinning, “beatbouncing” tape. Read more »
This year, instead of jumping on stage and getting arrested by the NYPD in Coney Island, Takeru Kobayashi challenged the other Nathan’s hot dog gagging contestants in real time atop 230 5th Avenue. And technically, he won. Read more »
The production costs for British artist Mark Wallinger’s 164-foot life-like Horse statue are getting out of hand. England’s would-be tallest statue’s original budget of $3.2 million has now galloped up to $19.3 million to cover “maintenance” and “graffiti removal” for 80 years. Read more »
Ukrainian FEMENistas trespassed into the guarded yard of the Supreme Council of Ukraine today in topless matador outfits, swinging red banners and baiting the police to comically charge at them, all bull-like. The gals were tackled and arrested. FEMEN protested the increase in retirement age for women, because they do not believe it should be equal to men’s. NSFW Read more »
Despite reports of the Freedom Tunnel getting buffed, some recent 
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