Over the weekend, thousands descended on Wall Street to protest corporate greed and the unpatriotic financial transactions that have plunged the country into economic ruin. Say what you will about these people, their cause is noble. Read more »
These aesthetic, ghostly photographs of erotic park shenanigans were taken by Kohei Yoshiyuki in the vicinity of Tokyo between 1971 and 1979. These encounters were sort of a thing, back then — the night, the naughty stranger couples, their mix ‘n’ matched genders and the hordes of aggressive stalker voyeurs crashing the hook up for a gawk. Read more »
Last week, Mayor Bloomberg proudly announced that the percentage of smokers in the city has dipped to an all time low of 14 percent, based on statistics that weren’t included in the press release. Assuming those numbers are indeed real, it begs the question: Why do we even need a public smoking ban if no one’s smoking? Read more »
The wait is over, pervs. Dasha Zhukova’s brilliant PR-scheme has come to its crescendo with the release of the first issue of her new fashion-art glossy Garage, featuring a controversial crotch tattooed with a Damien Hirst butterfly. Someone peeled off that Andy Warhol-esque sticker and scanned the goods. Very NSFW, obviously. Read more »
There’s a new study out (PDF doc), funded by an organization with an agenda, showing that across the entire state of New York, 1,000 pedestrians a year are injured by cyclists, 500 of them in New York City alone. As noted by the Village Voice, that pales in comparison to the amount of pedestrians and cyclists struck by vehicles. Read more »
“We no longer live in Bear and Bull times… Get ready for the Age of the Bison!” The “publicly funded” project Wall Street Bison wants to “legally” ditch the Bowling Green Bull and replace it with a more appropriate mammal mascot. Why bison? Read more »
Being that we live in a country where you can see a naked chick on the cover of a magazine depending on what section of the Deli you’re in, it’s kind of bugged out to think that some cultures don’t even allow for their models to be shown in bikinis. But alas, that’s the state of things in the Middle East – though one editor for Israel’s most popular Arabic magazine has dared to push the boundaries. Read more »
Parting Shot
Nothing says “ostentatious opulence” quite like Damien Hirst’s be-diamonded skull at this past weekend’s ‘Occupy Wall Street‘ protests. (Photo Jim Kiernan/Flickr)
This time lapse of the view from the International Space Station blows other nighttime metropolitan time lapse vids away — conceptually, not aesthetically. Check out our little planet. Woah, maaaan. Read more »
Welcome to Rat Island. No, not the one in Alaska that was named for its infestation of actual rodents, the one off the coast of City Island that referred to prisoners on the lam as “rats.” Read more »
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