Yesterday afternoon, we showed you FAILE’s wallpapering of the Bowery Wall in progress and here’s what appears to be the finished piece. A security guard was hired to keep watch, for at least the first night, due to previous acts of vandalism against Shepard Fairey and Kenny Scharf. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork)
Video director Joe Wehner just released a new short for Cake magazine titled Fanning the Flames, where we’re given his take on how to reignite the spark in a dulling relationship. Read more »
That is the sentiment of some parents whose children are going to live very sheltered lives upon seeing a ghoulish display at the Chelsea Market. The becoming Halloween decorations include a baby zombie eating a human hand prompting cries of “inappropriate” from at least one breeder. Oh the horror!
The animals at Kiev’s ZooPark are dropping dead from malnourishment, cold and lack of care. To protest the “corrupt scum” running the place, Ukrainian protest crew FEMEN climbed the entrance, disrobed, threw bloody meat and got into a fight with the guards. NSFW. Read more »
The single largest donation ever given to an NYC park was made yesterday when the family foundation of media mogul Barry Diller and wife dropped $20 million towards the development, design and, presumably urban wilderness eradication of the Highline’s last “unfinished” section. Read more »
The Calvary Cemetery in Queens is swarmed with a bird flock of Hitchcockian proportions. (Photo: Paul Searing/flickr)
To date, the city has spent $3.4 million in overtime for the NYPD to babysit the protesters at Occupy Wall Street according to the latest figures. But keep this in mind. Long before the protesters did a single mic check at Zuccotti Park, it’s been a tremendous year for the police, with them earning $549.5 million in overtime since June, the end of the fiscal year 2011 compared to $412 million in 2006 according to amNY. Read more »
FAILE, the Brooklyn-based art collective and maker of street art prayer wheels, has begun breathing some life back into the Bowery Wall on Houston Street, after JR’s decidedly flat piece that really only looked interesting when there was a hurricane in town. Their piece is still not complete, but it’s getting close. (Photo: 12ozProphet)
Artist Christine Chin’s “fleshy kitchen accessories” take inspiration from “some of nature’s most ingenious engineering.” Milk jugs are riddled with nipples. Salt shakers stand on baby toes. The elegance of a crystal cup ‘n’ saucer is combined with the (simulated) biological enhancement of a grip-friendly human ear handle and decorative hairy trimmings. Ew. Read more »
This afternoon a motorcycle collided with a yellow cab on 11th Avenue and West 44th Street in Manhattan. The FDNY quickly responded to the scene and according to a firefighter assisting in the rescue, the man was wearing a helmet. According to witnesses, the rider was unresponsive the entire time. UPDATE: Police told the Daily News the motorcyclist crashed into the cab and died. Read more »
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