Watch this dramatic clip of dudes from Washington Heights dive bare-chested into the street and slide on soggy trash bags over concrete. Cue sparkling classical score. Ah, summer. Read more »
There’s still a lot of work to be done to this under construction IHOP on Flushing Avenue in Bushwick, but since the front doors were flung wide open and the laborers were somewhere in the kitchen, the perfect opportunity to take a few photos of the interior presented itself yesterday. Read more »
Parting Shot
Visitors of the Constance Hockaday’s Boatel and Boat-In Theater in Far Rockaway’s Marina 59 catch an olde flick on the almost-high seas. (Photo: Kitty Joe Snaps/Flick)
The first serving of Banksy-produced The Antics Roadshow TV show premiered over the weekend, scooping up intervention artists, satirical terrorists and political prankster vandals from ’round the world, including Banksy favorites Voina. Here it is, all of it. Read more »
In Jamaica, Graffiti Is a National Crime
LA Lewis is a dancehall personality and Jamaica’s most well known, if not only, consistent graffiti artist… although you’ll never catch him saying that. And for good reason. The government has fined him $70,000 (JMD), a little over $800 USD, for a string of vandalism, claiming he violated the island country’s National Solid Waste Act. Read more »
Here’s a fresh mash-up supercut from ScreenWerks’ Jordan Laws. He’s purged all those feature film lines stored in his movie-nerd head, assembled them in rhyming order and kicked it up with a beat. I want you to hit me as hard as you can. Say hello to my little friend. Like that. Yeah. Read more »
For his latest series Specimens, Korean artist Do Ho Suh has sown translucent nylon replicas of objects in his New York City apartment. These airy sculptures of shower heads, doorknobs, electrical sockets and circuit boards with embroidered labels and puckered out switches are meant to be suspended, hovering in the gallery as if the walls were suddenly removed, leaving only ghostly pastel “memories” of domestic light, power and water sources. Read more »
$5,000,000 of Pirated Files: The Art Piece
Ah! Finally. The definitive artistic monument to illegal file downloading that has ever been erected, now featured on the contemporary technological art portal Art404. 5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte (2011) by Manuel Palou is… a hard drive filled with 1,016 GB of pirated software and files, which are conveniently listed for download here (PDF). Read more »
A mysterious white rat that has been frolicking about in Tompkins Square Park made its first daytime appearance yesterday and we thought you should know. Maybe this guy’s missing one?
Manhattan Parking Lot Issues Warning With Bite
A parking company has every right to tow cars blocking their entrance, but to New Jersey? The sign was spotted outside of a Central Parking System lot in Hell’s Kitchen. It’s harsh, and probably really effective. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork)
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