Parting Shot
This is either a member of the NYPD in a Guy Fawkes mask or a member of Anonymous in an NYPD uniform, but it’s definitely a perfect Halloween photo. (Photo: @AnonyOps/Twitter)
Despite passengers and drivers hating it alike, the TLC refuses to get rid of that little screen in the back of cabs that broadcasts stuff no watches and makes a lot of noise. However, they will be adding a volume control option (to some cars), but only customers will have access it, not drivers. And why would they? The agency had made it their job to make a cabbie’s life as miserable as possible. (Photo: Wayan Vota/flickr)
Racist Incorporated: Nate Hill’s New Art
NYC artist Nate Hill of Death Bear, Punch Me Panda and China Garbage Taxidermy Tour fame has given up performance art! For a bit. To do this. Presenting: Racist Incorporated — an internet art project that’s going to make you very uncomfortable. Read more »
Thanks to a trendy new bandage company named Brandages which claims to “heal in style,” materialistic girls everywhere can now cover up their boo boos in Burberry and outfit their lesions with Louis. The site is still so fresh that they have yet to finalize their shop section, but there is a gallery featuring designs inspired by Chanel, Burberry, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Murakami. Read more »
Yesterday, I joined “discarted” and a like-minded crew for some subterranean urban exploring. We passed the hut of a fabled hermit along a bank of the LA River, entered a tunnel and went deep into the pitch dark, until the graffiti tapered off completely into nothing but walls replete with wild roaches and mineral formations. Read more »
Patron Saint of Whores: Scot Sothern the ‘Lowlife’
“This woman is already dead so I photograph her ghost,” Scot Sothern writes. This is one of the pretty ones. The derelict, addled bodies of the others with their cavernous flesh glimmering against hotel walls and alleys, sloshing their breasts and flashing mangled genitals… That makes for a great photography exhibit. It comes with anecdotes. Read more »
Are Occupy Wall Street Protesters Their Own Worst Enemies?
For the first few weeks this place was “occupied,” you could spend a couple of hours here and be satisfied that you were a small piece of a valuable equation. If enough freshly shaved middle-class Joes stood with the hard-core “protesters” who were camping on the plaza, Wall Street’s fattest cats would look down at the increasing number of well-kept bodies massing on their doorstep and think: Uh-oh, maybe today’s not the day to strip-mine those retirement funds. Read more »
Have you heard? The blondest of the FEMEN girls are on a Euro Tour. This stop right here is “a sex-assault” at the front doors Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s house in Paris. “Armed with buckets, mops, rags and other tools for cleaning off shit” the girls went all video girl over there, protesting against the political influence DSK Bank. Read more »
Mixed signals much? NYC would love you to visit Carsten Höller’s “Experience” exhibit at the New Museum, promoting it on their website as the top event of the season. Yet, officials they say the sensory deprivation Psycho Tank is against the health code and the slide might be “unsafe.” Buzz killers. Read more »
An abnormal snowstorm that whirled through the city this weekend could be responsible for the death of up to 1,000 trees in Central Park, as well as injuring hundreds of acres. Although only a few inches fell, many of the trees still had their leaves and the limbs just couldn’t handle the weight. Read more »
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