For Bambi Magazine‘s 7th issue, photographer Michel Perez and gorgeous Romanian model Catrinel Menghia embark on an expansive adventure through the romantic coasts and cobbled streets of rustic Sicily. There are 32 shots total, ranging from glimpses of Menghia keeping old men company, to arguing with her studly Italian boyfriend, and even rearing chickens amongst the olive trees. With her dark locks and coy demeanor, she’s like a modern-day Apollonia Vitelli, minus all the exploding car stuff.
Graffiti Writer Tags the Skies Over LA
SABER, a California-based graffiti artist, dispatched skywriting planes over Downtown Los Angeles earlier today to challenge the city’s controversial moratorium on murals. New laws that were meant to curb the proliferation of advertisements and signage, have instead been used by officials to basically make it illegal for artists to paint large scale works, specifically if they involve spray paint and regardless if they have the owner’s permission. Read more »
Anna Chapman Points Big Guns
Just when captured/deported Russian spy Anna Chapman began fading in our memory, reducing herself to a vague, shapely ginger aura… Bang, there she is at an arms-expo in Russia, hugging a giant gun and standing next to some riffles. The government-trained seductress has a love hate relationship with weapons, but hey, you gotta throw the fans a bone once in a while to keep up a celebrity rep so reliant on fetishist wank-potential. Read more »
Similar to the MTA, the Port Authority tends to spend money like a blackout drunk with a credit card, and then expects the public to bail them out when it comes to paying the bill. So as of Sunday, the agency raised tolls on all its crossings between between New York and New Jersey. Read more »
Today, diplomats and world leaders—assuming they can get their visas approved—converge on New York for the annual convening of the United Nations, but discussions of conflict, communicable diseases, and other items of global significance doesn’t seem to be important according to the media. Read more »
Photographer Sergey Maximishin recently shot these literarily gut-wrenching artifacts at a “museum” of a Russian prison hospital. The loot — sets of dominoes, beaten spoon shanks, dozens of rusty nails — were removed from the contents of the prisoners’ stomaches in the Soviet ’50s and ’60s, presumably swallowed as tools of escape. What’s more odd here — the rusty junk itself or the decades-old cardboard mounting with its lovingly adorned “frames” drawn by hand with makers and a ruler, muaw muaw.
Nick Broomfield’s Palin doc hits theaters Sep 30. Here’s the full trailer, teasing of the horrors within, namely her “God-sent” complex and the adoring lemming acolytes such as a man behind a gun store counter: “What did you like about her?” “No fancy big huge words!” Bang-bang. Read more »
Take a whiff of OAK’s new Westside Christopher + West ’76 candle. Mmm… sweat, leather and flowers? That does smell like naughty disco. “The Lights of New York” series serves up each classic bodega candle shaped doozy saturated with the particular scent of an NYC intersection in time. They’re so immaculate, it’s disgusting. Read more »
Sixty years to the day they were installed, the city is removing the last single space parking meter in Manhattan. Some of the poles that support them will be transformed into bike racks, which is sure to spark undue controversy. Read more »
Parting Shot
A cheery “freewheeling” cart from Olek continues to make the rounds in and around the East Village. (Photo: Joann Jovinelly/Flickr)
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