Parting Shot
The East Village’s Life Cafe takes its landlord dispute into the public realm via pointed chalk messages. (Photo: EV Grieve)
Fashion Week in New York, sponsored by Mercedes Benz, has been good for brands catering to the rich. “Business this season has been strong at Bergdorf Goodman…statistics indicate that this is true throughout the entire luxury-goods sector.” Read more »
Here’s yesterday’s Tea Party GOP debate on CNN summarized into 75 seconds, if you’re feeling like a hankering shot of terror juice with a chaser of incredulity. Did the herd really just cheer to let the uninsured die? Read more »
Sharon Van de Pas Stranded on a Roof
For their 7th issue, Vestal magazine chose to channel their inner industrial vibe with an editorial dubbed “New Order” captured by photographer Paul Bakker. The shots feature Dutch model Sharon van de Pas lolling about on what seems to be a factory roof in an assortment of outfits, ranging from a sheer skirt to trousers sans top. Not quite sure what she’s doing up there – zombie apocalypse, perhaps. But regardless, homegirl better get some sunblock on quick. Freckles and insolation don’t mix!
An early “Banksy piece” has been “discovered” in a Berlin art gallery, or rather recovered by carefully stripping layer after layer of newer work until winged angels with smiley faces appeared. The 2003 piece hails from a pre-hype time when Banksy’s stencils weren’t almost legally protected in the UK, chiseled out of rubble in Detroit and looted and smuggled out of Palestine. Read more »
Just when you think a slo-mo explosion photographer Alan Sailer would eventually run out of shit to blow up, nope. Subjecting an endless miscellany of domestic paraphernalia to high speed projectiles, high voltage explosions, gun pellets and good olde fashioned chucks-against-the-wall, Sailer has recently captured the destruction of an skull-shaped crystal bottle of vodka and found, half-smoked pack of cigarettes as well as a cluster of hot-glue-gunned crayons in a mist of its colored pulverized bits and a Pepsi can blooming with a side-ways mushroom cloud. Pretty.
Nas is co-writing an autobiography with Rolling Stone scribe, Touré, set to drop in 2012. The book right now is tentatively titled after the last track on his seminal debut album Illmatic: “It Ain’t Hard to Tell.” According to a Touré tweet, it’s not like Jay-Z’s Decoded “…It’ll be a lot of him telling his story & a little song deconstruction.” Read more »
Of all the insane daredevil antics we’ve seen Slavs pull for YouTube attention wanks, this might be the nuttiest. See young droogs and a lanky vixen scale the shaking steel ropes of Kiev’s Moskovskyi Bridge. No safety. Just a POV fish-eyed cam for nauseating views from 390 ft. Read more »
Lewis Carrol’s hallucinogenic Alice in Wonderland is getting a 21st century makeover in Author Susan Crimp’s Alice in NYC Wonderland – The Text Generation. The Kindle-only release updates the famous saga, but this time it’s a descendent of Alice from the Bronx who falls asleep and wakes up near the E. 75th St. statue of Alice. Read more »
Road traffic is set to return to normal after yesterday’s rush hour, but while terror-related truck stops will probably cease, “added subway bag screening, will remain in place…after which a decision will be made whether to keep security at the current elevated levels,” a police spokesperson said yesterday. Read more »
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