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Triple threat… CES, GHOST and SUCH on NYC subway

Triple threat… CES, GHOST and SUCH on NYC subway car headed for scrap. 📷: @seem823

China’s new spherical robocop, the RT-G, can hit

China’s new spherical robocop, the RT-G, can hit speeds of 22 mph and stalk humans on both land and water. Authorities call it a “public safety" tool, but it looks more like a Black Mirror audition tape, and will inevitably make its way to America. The rugged dystopian orb, designed to roll right over your freedoms, patrols the streets alongside human officers (see 2nd slide), and comes equipped with AI-driven cameras, facial recognition, loudspeakers, and non-lethal weapons like net launchers and tear gas. Developed by Logon Technology, the only English on their website is a tagline that reads: “From Mercury to Earth, we make fiction real.” Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. 📷: Logon Technology | 🎥: @chengdu_china

Despite a terrible rollout rife with bureaucratic

Despite a terrible rollout rife with bureaucratic fuck-ups and no real plan for making top shelf indoor widely available like it is on the black market, New York’s legal cannabis industry is on track to hit $1 billion in sales by year’s end, reports @MarijuanaMoment. We did it y’all!—well, some of you did. Salute!

With the holiday season in full swing, state officials from the Office of Cannabis Management are encouraging shoppers to keep it local by pushing licensed dispensaries as the go-to spot for stocking stuffers, ‘cause honestly, nothing quite captures the festive spirit like blazing pre-rolls on Christmas morning. In that we agree. Joy to the world!

Yup! And it’s gonna be interesting to see if ele

Yup! And it’s gonna be interesting to see if elected officials, who’ve been vowing to cut Medicare and Social Security once Trump takes office, continue down that path or change course after witnessing the outpouring of public support for Luigi Mangione. It feels like the shooter put the entire healthcare industry on notice and makes you wonder if politicians are paying as much attention as those CEOs are now. 📷: @goodtimesjackson

Cops say the shooter of the United Healthcare CEO

Cops say the shooter of the United Healthcare CEO in NYC is a 26-year-old man named Luigi Mangione. He was captured after a McDonald’s employee in Bumblefuck, PA snitched on him. Was he a vigilante for the overworked masses routinely denied coverage or just a guy who snapped in the capitalist cage? Stay tuned... 🖼️: @hala.doodles

Prolific graffiti crew weighs in on recent current

Prolific graffiti crew weighs in on recent current events. "Delay Deny Depose" #KFC #freights 📷: Reddit|mightycucks510

text: Miss Sara Rosen | ZEPHYR Unearths Graffiti T

We’re living in the worst timeline, possibly in

We’re living in the worst timeline, possibly in a simulation set to the worst level, and the worst is still yet to come. The six million dollar banana is testing us all. 📷: @whatisnewyork

Haunting photo of a Thanksgiving Day Parade float

Haunting photo of a Thanksgiving Day Parade float in NYC, circa 1942. 📷: Arthur Fellig aka Weegee

Quick read: Last night, the @museumofcityny marked

Quick read: Last night, the @museumofcityny marked the 30th anniversary of Martin Wong’s groundbreaking donation: a comprehensive archive of 1980s-era graffiti art from some of the most notable writers in the game, many of whom were in attendance. Curated by MCNY’s @scorcoran74, the exhibit is now open and will run through August 10, 2025.

Loftier-artsy read: "Everything I paint is within four blocks of where I live, and the people are the people I know and see all the time," artist Martin Wong (1946–1999) once said. This quote reflects not only the sense of preservation that he had in his own work, but also the ethos that drove him to become one of the most significant collectors of early NYC graffiti art. At the time, this was not a popularly held view. In an influential research paper on the subject, authors Maryalice Sloan-Howitt and George L. Kelling write: "By 1984, graffiti covered every train car in the New York City subway. Every attempt to deter the graffitists had failed. Apologists saw graffiti as folk art; others saw graffiti as the premier symbol of the failure of government to protect citizens from the depredations of vandals and criminals."

Martin Wong saw it differently, he saw it for what it truly was: a vibrant, homegrown, art movement erupting on subway cars, walls, and handball courts, with some writers beginning to translate their work onto canvases. While the powers that be scrambled to scrub it off property and out of the collective consciousness, Wong was quietly building one of the most epic archives of work from some of the best to have ever done it.

That time capsule is now on display at the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY). "Above Ground celebrates the 30th anniversary of Martin Wong’s donation to the museum and the 10th anniversary of MCNY’s initial City as Canvas exhibition," says curator Sean Corcoran. "This show offers a renewed and expanded look at graffiti’s journey from NYC streets to the most prestigious galleries around the world."

Graffiti in the ’80s was raw, loud, and chaotic—a perfect reflection of a city teetering on the edge. (please read the rest on www.animalnewyork.com)

📷: Herman Yung @doobybrain

Miami’s message to VITAS building owner: enough

Miami’s message to VITAS building owner: enough is enough! The city’s code enforcement board just pulled the plug on any more extensions to clean up the iconic, fully-grilled structure, reports @NBC6. ATOMIKO is credited with hitting the spot first, sparking a domino effect that turned the location into a graffiti magnet.

The abandoned monolith quickly became an international spectacle during Art Basel 2023, when writers from all over swarmed it like ants at a picnic, leaving no inch untagged. Now slated for demolition, local commissioners are accusing the owner of stalling and plan to cover up the “eyesore” with screens in the meantime. Good luck!

📷: @elomia_

(America/Me) billboard by @GlennLigon | 📷: @fom

(America/Me) billboard by @GlennLigon | 📷: @fomofeed

Knock out or decapitation? #TysonPaul 🖼️: @

Knock out or decapitation? #TysonPaul

🖼️: @thematthewwaite cc @comixposure @tidalwaveproductions

🗽💨: @GabrielSpecter 📷: Allan Molho @amolh

🗽💨: @GabrielSpecter 📷: Allan Molho @amolho4

Who did this? New and improved Cybertruck seen in

Who did this? New and improved Cybertruck seen in NYC. #fdt 📷: NYC Reddit | elmoisez15

Five decades after Leonard Hilton McGurr took the

Welcome to Hell!

Welcome to Hell!

An international cabal of anonymous creatives enli

An international cabal of anonymous creatives enlisted ANIMAL to help take out the trash in NYC for this very important Election Day by re-bagging hundreds of garbage bags printed with the orange menace’s face, and so we kindly obliged. It’s time to do the right thing, America. Vote!

Shout out to @bearmeetseagleonfire and all the co-conspirators who helped facilitate the effort. All photos by @han.alexander

Illustration by @natecepis commissioned by ANIMAL

Illustration by @natecepis commissioned by ANIMAL over a decade ago. #fdt

#Freights & #Monikers

#Freights & #Monikers

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