Zombin Laden is a Grindhouse-style fake trailer some French kids shot in four days, complete with a kitschy bloody gore, a cute French chick, a zombie Osama and awkward cultural insensitivities, like ham defense. Read more »
Designer Evan Stremke’s Invitation to an Assassination minimalist posters are morbid and conflicting. They’re simple and crammed with murder specifics, active participants’ affiliation insignia and conspiracy theories surrounding the high-profile assassinations of heroes and villains of world history, like the four broken strings for four shots fired into Lennon. There are also Easter Eggs. Does that Bin Laden assasination symbol for “Operation Neptune Spear” look a bit like a cross?
Check out Tom Sanford’s latest paintings: From this year’s mass of overzealous media fancy and Twitter feeds, it’s Charlie Sheen on a luxurious binge and Osama Bin Laden teeming with aquatic life. ANIMAL asked the artist if the work is his own reaction to the diarrhea of the 24-hour, scandal and celeb-obessed news cycle or he’s playing zeitgeist to the nation’s consciousness. Specifically, if he’s fantasizing about Bin Laden rotting under the sea or if he’s just fascinated with the nation-wide jingoism behind the kill… Read more »
Remember artist Michael D’Antuono who chickened out of showing his mildy controversial Obama-Jesus painting in Union Square in 2009 — because he didn’t want to offend Christians with the “blasphemy?” Behold his new work And Justice For All wherein President Obama triumphantly brandishes a severed, bullet-blasted head of Osama bin Laden off a grassy cliff, to be auctioned on eBay for a vet charity. The artist is already crying “unfair censorship” because Newswire won’t post it because it’s so-o-o controversial… and not because it’s corny.
If you guessed that it’s one of the Illuminati’s most important holidays that requires a ritual human sacrifice, well spot on. The makers of this video and other conspiracy theorists say it was all part of a well orchestrated series of events to coincide with the pagan Beltane Festival.
Although prominent Republicans are demanding that President Obama release postmortem photos of Bin Laden as an overall strategy to debase the White House, others on the left, like Jon Stewart (and liberal columnist Eugene Robinson), are motivated by other factors. Read more »
With all the strange inconsistencies the media has relayed reported since news of bin Laden’s death first broke, this latest flap is par for the course. This photo of the president and his team in the White House Situation Room was widely circulated along with several accounts of them watching the compound raid in real time, a claim the CIA is now refuting. Read more »
Gothamist notes that entrepreneurs all over the country are banking on dead Osama Bin Laden products and consumers can choose from license plates to pinatas and of course t-shirts, which Cafe Press has plenty of.
As news of Osama bin Laden’s death spread across the internet, radio and TV, jubilant crowds started to gather at the World Trade Center site to celebrate. The NYPD shut down vehicle traffic on Church and Vesey Streets and here’s a sample the party-like atmosphere that resulted as people chanted, cheered, and hung from light poles.
Exactly eight years to the day that President Bush declared “Mission Accomplished” on the deck of an aircraft carrier, falsely proclaiming the end of the Iraq War, President Obama will announce that Osama bin Laden is dead. According to to every media outlet on the planet, even Fox News, the world’s most wanted terrorist was reportedly killed by the same outfit that trained him in the first place.
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