The last time Hollywood released a movie about bike messengers was in 1986 and now, 25 years later, here’s what will likely be their final attempt. So, what can be said about Premium Rush? We’ll let Wilee, the character played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, speak on its behalf: “Yo I ride bikes. Fixed gear. No brakes.” Hardcore dude!
NYC graffiti legend GHOST is showing brand new work, but if you want a drippy trippy canvas or remixed MTA service announcements, snag ‘em up because they always sell quick. The new layered pieces “enter new territories” but retain “something of the old intensity” of Cousin Frank’s graf days. A little bit old, a little bit new, a little bit of crazy hue. “Then and Now,” GHOST, Sep 8 – Sep 18, TTUnderground, NYC
The MTA will release maps every Friday on their website that aim to explain all of the horrible construction going on that weekend. Thanks for the added clarity, but we still just want our trains to run on time. You can also view the map one borough at a time, so Brooklynites can now realize in under 30 seconds how landlocked they are until Monday morning comes around. Read more »
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To celebrate the end of Fashion Week, filmmaker Casey Neistat—of bike lane and prison tattoo fame—made a short starring trainer Kym Perfetto, which takes a jab at the ridiculousness of the bi-annual happening. Read more »
More proof that Nicolas Cage is some sort of a time traveling/immortal creature has recently surfaced via an eBay auction for a vintage photograph from 1870 Tennessee, entitled “Nicolas Cage is a Vampire.” Read more »
Early works by renowned artist by Chris Ofili were tracked down in a vault of a Bulawayo, Zimbabwe gallery — two abstract works and one figure painting surrounded by six turds, all untitled. The artist’s trademark elephant crap splatters and shit ball supports aren’t properly preserved due to his “lack of experience at the time of making them” and are “in urgent need of conservation.” Break out the glitter glaze! Let the turd restoration begin!
This shit just got serious. On Wednesday morning, a Bronx police officer tried to kill himself by grabbing the third rail at the 238th Street station on the No. 1 subway line after he reportedly testified in front of the grand jury investigating ticket fixing. Read more »
Do not look at these photos of the saddest seal in the world, lest you want your heartstrings tugged by a chainsaw. The scrappy little ginger was found by photog Anatoly Strakhov on Tyuleniy Island, Russia — hungry, half-blind, huddled under some logs, shunned by his “black brothers.” Read more »
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