Los Angeles County sheriffs conducted a 24-location sweep and arrested nine members of the Bay Area’s tagging crew ASC (Art Sex Crime). A detailed new database allowed the police to tie thousands of tags to the group and track it across city and county lines. Read more »
An interactive, public sculpture by abstract expressionist Mark di Suvero was deemed “too dangerous” for Governors Island because “people were a little too exuberant” rocking around on its swing section. They replaced its entertainingly precarious wooden platform with a old tire with “a smaller range of motion,” lest the kiddies get boo-boos. Read more »
Odd turn of sunlight makes Frank Gehry’s new building in downtown Manhattan look like the Twin Towers. (Photo: Jonah Green)
Now modern folk can take advantage of the handy sign system of the storied hobo code. Use this handy guide to generate, cut and stencil QR codes and inform fellow “digital nomads” about the dangers and benefits of the local establishments if there’s “bike thieves” or “assholes” about. Read more »
What happened to the baby? That seems to be the question on everyone’s mind after watching the clip we posted earlier of two people battling it out on the L train as a baby stroller belonging to one of the women rolls out of the subway car doors. Luckily, straphanger Carolina Miranda has the answers. Read more »
Every summer, something crazy happens in New York City. The temperature rises and everyone talks about how dreadfully hot it is. We just thought you should know.
Like “hypothetical pedestrians who interact with marred city walls,” artist José Parlá makes acrylic/ink/gesso/oil/plaster “psychogeographical” collages. The work mimics the marks that graffiti, cracking paint-jobs and peeling paper remnants leave on urban architecture — decade after decade, layer upon layer. Only his are deliberately dream-like. Read more »
When he was running for governor against that madman with the bat, Andrew Cuomo said he didn’t support the legalization of medical weed because the “dangers … outweigh the benefits,” thoroughly enraging me. Read more »
London-based graffiti artist SHOK-1 says that he was invited to paint a giant mural in China, but after surveying his work, the government wants it “completely censored out” and presumably, buffed. The artist says the mural has a personal meaning to him, but is leaving his heart-noose-on-red theme up to interpretation. “As far as what they think it means or what the problem actually is – they won’t tell me,” he writes. “I think unless you’ve worked with the Chinese, it will probably be difficult to understand but things are… indirect.”
According to amNY, residents of 90 West Street, a pricey apartment complex in Lower Manhattan, are irked by the round-the-clock noise emanating from the World Center site, but the paper was only able to get one person on the record to complain bitchily. “I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in almost a year,” said Nick Oram. He moved into a fourth floor unit overlooking the pit eight months ago and must not have had the foresight to realize that it tends to get noisy living smack dab in the middle of NYC’s most prominent, ongoing construction project.
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