YAK Films production team brings you this sleek music video featuring freakishly accessorizing individuals delivering hypnotic moves around metro platforms, barely disturbing NYC commuters. You’d think that the gas-masks would do it, but no.
Not all NYC subway interactions end in the throwing of fists and spaghetti. Luke Rudkowski filmed this video of real NYC metro riders answering general existential questions and expressing their mistrust of the government. Click on for fear vs. love chats and a brief plug of political sites. Read more »
In a his new series Tokyo Compression, photographer Michael Wolf captures faces packed behind a precipitating metro-windows, canned together in commute like jarred people preserves, smearing their sleeping faces on sweaty glass. Some are smooshed. Some glow like foggy icons. Like this one – isn’t she just a Madonna of Perpetual Work Ethic?
Ukrainian feministas of FEMEN brought their trademark weaponry of wreaths and breasts to the Kiev metro. Their blog readers asked why the “I Will Rip Your Balls Off!” sign. A philosophical discussion on gawking vs. raping followed. Read more »
Will Russians dive onto the rails or bludgeon fellow passengers over literary murals? Russian psychologists are fearful of Moscow metro’s illustrations based on classic Dostoevsky passages, such as: “Can it be, that I shall really take an ax, that I shall strike her on the head, split her skull open… that I shall tread in the sticky warm blood, break the lock, steal and tremble; hide, all spattered in the blood… with the ax… Good God, can it be?” Read more »
To encourage metro-tourism, the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Station in downtown Brooklyn will mount a mural tribute to Michael Jackson’s Bad video/18-minute Scorsese-direct film based on the Edmund Perry incident, as the station is where that particular crotch grabbing occurred.
When Toronto-based street artist Posterchild found some disused newspaper dispensers, he filled them with flowers. Less creative White Plains commuters just filled an abandoned Metro newspaper dispenser with trash. And once it couldn’t hold any more of their garbage, they jacked open the top so they could continue not using the trash bin just 25 feet away. As part of her daily commute, Greenpoint blogger Bitch Cakes monitored the disgusting development for more than a month until it was finally cleaned up.
Photos by Bitch Cakes
In addition to providing kindling for track fires in the subways, the free Metro paper is also great at getting stories completely wrong. In this article about the New York Street Advertising Takeover they get it wrong right from the outset: “One night not long ago while the city either partied or slept, a band some 80 artists and concerned citizens fanned across downtown Manhattan to take back swaths of “public” space that had become inundated with advertising. Wrong. The reclamation began at 11AM in the morning and then artists worked throughout the afternoon in broad daylight. |PublicAdCampaign|
At some point or another you have seen this sign and chances are you have no idea what the hell a “dry” standpipe is. It’s one of those things that you see around the city and figure it ain’t worth the reasearch but, if you happen to find out one day, well cool.
That time has come:
A “dry” standpipe is so named because the pipe usually carries no water or water pressure: the pipe is pressurized only during a fire emergency. The “dry” standpipe is connected to a fire hydrant or fire engine on the ground, and carries the water to an upper floor, generally the floor below the fire floor.
Now your day is complete.
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Since counting the ad pages takes way too long, why not provide the next best measurement of success: weight. Afterall, many a fashion magazine are ritually weighed (although traditionally in the Fall), so why not take that trend to NYC’s freebies.
Come ROAR and see who’s the Heavyweight winner in today’s match up.
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