Appropriation artists beware! Andy Baio of Waxy.org created Kind of Bloop, a chip-tunes version of the legendary ‘Kind of Blue’ album by Miles Davis. Awesome… until he got sued for copyright infringement of the cover. Read more »
This is not a porn star. This is a 14-year-old’s self-portrait plucked from Flickr and onto the cover Body Passions. Florida’s porn-makers goofed. Now, a judge will have them cashing out $130,000 to Lara Jade Coton (now 21) for copyright infringement, image misappropriation and damages to her reputation/physical health. Read more »
Recently fished out of financial hell by Colony Capital, Annie Leibovitz is already another $800k in debt. The investment firm who arranged Leibovitz’s deal with Colony and helped save her entire catalog from being confiscated collateral, is suing for unpaid fees. Over the last few years, a combination of reckless spending and personal misfortunes has left the photographer broke. Shuffling deals around hasn’t helped enough and she’s still swimming upstream through a shit storm. |NYP|
So the company that makes the notorious Taser that police officers across the U.S. have been abusing steadily for years now, just announced that it might not be a good idea to shoot the weapon at a suspect’s chest, it could kill them. |USAToday|
So about that horrifying World Trade Center ad we posted earlier? Turns out that it wasn’t the work of the World Wildlife Fund, but an ad agency who mocked it up. After presenting the concept and being summarily rejected by the activist group, the forsaken ad made its way online, thoroughly pissing off the WWF. They condemned the plane-raining creative and the loose-lipped agency that posted it, issuing the following statement: Update: WWF did approve the ad! Read more »
Earlier today, upon hearing the news of his death, the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem posted a tribute to Michael Jackson on their iconic marquee. Unfortunately, they got his birth year wrong by 15 years. He was born in 1958 and by ’79 had already put out one of his best selling albums: “Off the Wall.”
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The decommissioned supersonic jetliner has only been in Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field for less than two years and was already damaged, with it’s nose cone getting knocked off: “In a multicultural crash in the middle of the night, the jet, a Concorde that is owned by a British airline, was hit by a truck that was hauling equipment from a Jamaican music and soccer festival. The truck clipped the distinctive nose cone off the parked Anglo-French jet about 3 a.m. last Monday, prompting an impassioned uproar among the jet’s band of enthusiasts.” |NYT|
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