Midnight Knitter Pulls the Wool Over NJ Shore Town
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March 10. 2010
West Cape May, N.J. (AP/1010 WINS) — Someone is spinning quite a yarn over one New Jersey shore town.
Dubbed “The Midnight Knitter” by West Cape May residents, someone is covering tree branches and lamp poles with little sweaters under cover of darkness. (more…)
Ads in New York Show State Animals Trying to Resign
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March 10, 2010
Albany, N.Y. (AP/ 1010 WINS) — A coalition of environmental groups has a new ad campaign urging lawmakers to restore money to the state’s Environmental Protection Fund.
The ad features the state’s “official” animals — bluebird, snapping turtle, beaver and brook trout — submitting their resignations.
Click here to learn more about the campaign
It’s sponsored by a broad coalition of groups including the Adirondack Council, Audubon New York, Environmental Advocates, Scenic Hudson and others.
The Environmental Protection Fund was established in 1993 to provide a reliable source of money for projects such as landfill closure, recycling facilities, and open space protection.
Citing an $8 billion looming budget deficit, Governor Paterson proposes cutting the Environmental Protection fund by about one-third to $143 million.
NYPD: Rooftop Figures Just Art, Not People in Distress
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March 9, 2010
New York (AP/1010 WINS) — The New York Police Department wants the public to know that the figures soon to be gazing down from buildings near a midtown park are an artist’s body casts — not residents in distress.
The department was worried the upcoming outdoor exhibit might spark 911 calls of possible jumpers, so it wanted to alert the public, said police spokesman Paul Browne.
On Tuesday, the first sculpture of the installation, called “Event Horizon,” was placed on top of a building that houses Pentagram Design’s New York offices.
“We have a new staffer here at our offices at 204 Fifth Avenue; he doesn’t say much, and spends most of his time up on the roof, gazing at the skyline,” the company said on its Web site.
By nightfall, the figure was a dark sillhouette against the sky.
The work by British artist Antony Gormley consists of 31 life-size figures of the artist’s body cast in iron and glass fiber. The sculptures will be installed on pathways, sidewalks and rooftops of buildings surrounding Madison Square Park for an exhibit beginning March 26…
The installation will be on view through Aug. 15. Read the rest of this article here.
70 Million by Hold Your Horses! from L'Ogre.
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A day in the life of New York City, in miniature…
The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare
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Original Music composed by Human, co-written by Rosi Golan and Alex Wong. For a description of the shoot, camera, lenses and workflow, please visit bit.ly/aFmaPZ.
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Submitted by W.J. Elvin III and André Gattolin:
The greatest literary hoax ever?
by John Crace
The Guardian
10 February 2010
A French philosopher has been caught out by a literary prank. But it’s nothing on the tale of the forgotten artist Nat Tate
La Rive Gauche rigole. Bernard-Henri Levy, France’s loudest voice of the 1970s school of nouveaux philosophes, who rarely appears on TV with his shirt buttoned beyond the waist, has been had. In his latest book, On War In Philosophy, BHL, as he is generally known, had a pop at Immanuel Kant, calling him “raving mad’” , saying that the little-known French philosopher, Jean-Baptiste Botul, had proved that once and for ” . . . in his series of lectures to the neo-Kantians of Paraguay, that their hero was an abstract fake, a pure spirit of pure appearance”.
Only it was Botul who was the fake, the invention of a French journalist Frederic Pages. There were clues. Botul’s supposed great work was The Sex Life of Immanuel Kant and his school of thought, Botulism. Not to mention a Wikipedia entry describing Botul as a fictional French philosopher. But BHL managed to miss all this and now he has been caught out, he has pulled the philosophical two-step of claiming, “Hats off for this invented-but-more-real-than-real Kant, whose portrait, whether signed Botul, Pages or John Smith, seems to be in harmony with my idea of a Kant who was tormented by demons that were less theoretical than it seemed”. But no one’s falling for this one.
Literature is fertile ground for hoaxers and people wanting to try it on. (more…)
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From Series 2, Episode 2 of Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe on BBC:
The world’s most generic news report – Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe
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Update January 30, 2010: High Jinks to Handcuffs for Landrieu Provocateur, The New York Times
ACORN foe: Phone scheme meant to embarrass senator
by Michael Kunzelman and Brett J. Blackledge
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January 29, 2009
New Orleans (AP) — A conservative activist accused of trying to tamper with Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s phones said he and three others charged in the incident wanted to investigate complaints that constituents calling her office couldn’t get through.
“On reflection, I could have used a different approach to this investigation, particularly given the sensitivities that people understandably have about security in a federal building,” James O’Keefe wrote Friday on the Web site biggovernment.com.
Landrieu’s spokesman called his explanation “feeble.” (more…)
From Huffington Post, January 27, 2010:
To start off, we in no way condone vandalism; it’s not our idea of a good time. That said, the ads presented in this collection have already been modified, and thus there’s nothing we can do about it except enjoy the jokes that have already been made. And we can all agree that these ads have been changed for the better.
To see more and/or to submit your own examples, click here.
As seen on TheFilmStage.com, January 21, 2010:
Graffiti Artist Banksy To Debut Mysterious New Film. by Raffi Asdourian
Banksy, the renowned British graffiti artist, whose artworks are often satirical diatribes on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics, is shocking the independent film world with what may be the greatest film prank of all time. “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” billed as “A Banksy Film” , will have its world premiere Sunday night at the Library Center Theater as part of Sundance’s Spotlight Surprise.
“Sundance has shown films by unknown artists, but never an anonymous one,” said festival director John Cooper. He described the film as “part personal journey and part expose on the art world, with its mind-altering mix of hot air and hype.”
Source Reuters
This explains odd Banksy art popping up around Park City. You can view the trailer for the film below and attempt to decipher the mystery to what the film is all about. Check out some of his graffiti art below as well.
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