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• Art Monday: Performance Edition

  Posted on Monday July 14th, 2008 at 13:22 in american madness, art, arts & entertainment, bass, cornstarch, images, improv everywhere, Photography, physics, plasam, star trek, star wars

  Today’s Art edition is composed of some videos and photography. ImprovEverywhere is a group that has done some fun things around NYC, like ‘Freezing’ in Grand Central (which was lat...

• Blowing Up Their Spot

  Posted on Thursday July 10th, 2008 at 13:21 in agence france-presse, american madness, conspiracy, DIY, f x, images, iran, journalism, media, missiles, ny times, Photography

  If you haven’t yet heard (though I am not sure how you could have missed it), Iran released pictures of a missile test they just conducted. The image they released was plastered all over newspap...

• New Lows For Fox News

  Posted on Wednesday July 9th, 2008 at 13:10 in american madness, fox & friends, fox news, images, media, ny times, photoshop, poor journalism, reddicliffe, steinberg

  I am not a huge fan of Fox News, I feel that, for the most part, it is exploitive and uses scare tactics rather then actual journalism to get its point across. Fortunately I can get my news from about...

• Art Wednesday: Pictures from Space

  Posted on Wednesday July 9th, 2008 at 11:53 in art, arts & entertainment, images, landsat 7, NASA, Photography, satellite, space, technology

  Calling it ‘art’ is a bit of a cheat I guess. I mean, is it really art if it is just a picture taken from a satellite doing its job? There is no eye for the artistic behind the taking of t...

• Art Tuesday

  Posted on Tuesday July 1st, 2008 at 13:56 in art, arts & entertainment, camouflage, chris jordan, Color, desiree palmen, images, mimetic polly carbon, neuromancer, panther modern, Photography, william gibson

  Today’s installment of art comes from Jerusalem and Seattle. First up we have some older work by Desiree Palmen. Between 1999 and 2006 Palmen worked with fabrics and paint to make jumpsuits that...

• Take a nap (here’s how)

  Posted on Thursday June 19th, 2008 at 14:07 in american madness, design, images

  For years, the Boston Globe says, naps have gotten a bad rap. But really they’re great, so they’ve produced a how-to guide: more evidence that some people are just too dumb to be lazy. Cli...

• Art Wednesday: Light Edition

  Posted on Wednesday May 21st, 2008 at 14:13 in american madness, arts & entertainment, images

  So we are going a little light with the art today: First up we have Martin Beckett, I cam across his work right around the same time I found the superhero stuff last week, but it just didn’t fit...

• Pretty Incredible Street Animation

  Posted on Friday May 16th, 2008 at 09:57 in arts & entertainment, graffiti, images

  MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. Share This...

• Ready For My Close Up

  Posted on Wednesday May 14th, 2008 at 16:11 in american madness, arts & entertainment, images, jose picayo, mug shots, review, robin rice gallery

  Mario Batali, Martha Stewart, Boogie, Jimmi Simpson, Brice Marden are just some of the faces you might recognize on the walls of Jose Picayo’s exhibition: “Mug Shots.” That isn̵...

• Please Turn To The Left

  Posted on Monday May 5th, 2008 at 14:21 in american madness, arts & entertainment, images, jose picayo

  This Wednesday Jose Picayo is having a gallery opening at the Robin Rice Gallery at 325 West 11th St from 5:30pm until 8:30pm. I recommend you to all stop through and check out his work. Mug Shots is ...