Big Tobacco Chalks Off Another Free Speech Victory

Every now and then, the FDA needs a good kick in the balls and today, a federal judge did just that, when he ruled that the government may be going too far by requiring tobacco brands to plaster gross-looking images all over their products. Read more »

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‘Skin’ Trailer: Damien Hirst’s Butterfly Crotch Tattoo in Action

This sleek trailer from Ryan Hope’s docu debut is your behind-the-scenes for the Dasha Zhukova’s GARAGE Magazine shoot, the one with all the artist tattoos including the infamous butterfly labia à la Damien Hirst. Looks like that’s the proprietor cringing. Read more »

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Homeless Crazer or OWS Protester? (This Is a Rhetorical Question BTW)

Meet Jeremy Clinch. He’s the unfortunate young man who the New York Post desperately tried to paint as the poster child of the Occupy Wall Street movement, by splashing his mug across the front page of Friday’s paper and posting a video of him flipping out. Read more »

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Cyriak’s Kitty City Midi Mind Bend

Here’s the newest animation from Cyriak, all very much in the signature style of cows & cows & cows but with felines and a more demented complexity of the spewing, sporing metamorphosis. Cue evil circus midi-harpsichord score! Read more »

Twin Peeks

What do you get when you mask two hot blonde twins, strip them of most their clothing, and then set them loose in an opulent mansion? The makings for a perfectly alluring editorial of course, slightly reminiscent of an Eyes Wide Shut soiree, only much more exclusive. Read more »

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Batmobiles In Motion

Seeing photos of camo-painted Batmobiles on the set of the Dark Knight Rises is one thing, but seeing video of them actually moving is an experience all to itself. Anyway, just like other motor vehicles in NYC, the Tumblers have horns and similarly, their drivers aren’t afraid to use them.

Nan Goldin’s Still Got It: Passions, Nudes and the Louvre

See 400 intimate Nan Goldin autobiographical portraits of friends stripped raw in decadent dismay — the ones she promised to never photograph again – remixed with her exclusive shots from the Louvre in the “Scopophilia” slide installation making its NYC debut at the at Matthew Marks Gallery. It looks gorgeous, like it flows oh so well. Read more »

Activist Hanging Around the Tappan Zee Bridge

So, there’s currently a guy dangling from the Tappan Zee Bridge with a banner protesting a Rockland County politician who you probably never heard of, causing lots of traffic and the mobilization of rescue personnel. And it’s all happening in real time. Check out the slow-swinging action. UPDATE: After a brief dip, he’s in custody.

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Topless FEMEN Gal Crashes the Vatican Mass

Yesterday, FEMEN’s Alexandra Shevchenko sneaked into the Vatican and toplessly protested against the Pope’s “medieval” condemnation of contraception and abortion, during Mass. She was quickly apprehended and dragged away for four hours of captivity and near deportation. Read more »

Money Thrown at Ai Weiwei Might Be “Illegal Fund Raising”

Chinese citizens are literally throwing folded money into Ai Weiwei’s courtyard. The dissident artist who has days to pay the police $2.4 million in “taxes,” has received $830,000 in donations so far. Now, a Communist-owned paper calls electronic transfers “an example of illegal fund raising.” Uh-oh. Read more »