07/01/09

Barrel Monster Faces Prison

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NC student Joseph Carnevale aka "Banksy" is being charged with larceny for stealing and damaging the traffic barrels on May 31 for the purpose of building a statue. Banksy assembled a barrel monster out of bright orange traffic barrels and put it to work directing traffic on a busy public street.

Read more here.

From Banksy's blog: "I couldn’t get it out of my head. Its that itch, that need to make real an idea that has rolled around in one’s head for days, snowballed itself into a temporary obsession that just has to be satisfied.

I arrived in a flash and snatched them up from where they stood on the street. As I threw them into the trunk of the vehicle I had to rough them up some so they would fit. I shoved and beat and mangled them into place and was off before any witnesses knew what had even happened.

Later on that night, they stood huddled in the corner of the room, silent. They looked on while I slowly set out the duct tape and plugged in the power drill. Then I pulled out the switchblade and released the cold metal blade. They would never be the same."

Mode a la Mode

  • Yvette's Bridal

    web design is a living thing

  • Muzorama

    I ain't intend to turn this into Euro surrealist week but the universe keeps on passin the dutchie so we follow suit. For your pleasure please view Muzorama, a depthy barnburning sortie into the dream-logic universe of French illustrator Muzo, made in six weeks by students at Supinfocom (Arles campus). Watch, dig, spread.

    UPDATE: Authentic 2-D Muzo to be had in Les Très Riches Heures du Cannabis, published in ancient times (1998), lookable on scribd and gettable at amazon.fr. Let's all learn French, why don't we.

  • The More Things Change

    Welcome back from the holidays. We are all overjoyed!

    It ain't exactly news (c. 2008, spring) but all human beings deserve to remember that Italian muralist & illustrator BLU did an enormous thing to unsuspecting walls in Argentina & Germany. Seriously, watch:

    Download it for yr own self al suo sito. This has been your decennial reminder to write in books and paint on walls.

  • GOOD OLE AMERICAN PARTTTY LIFFFE

    Margot Padilla is a renaissance woman and should probaly be president of "non-shitty" america. She has a brilliant celebrity zine Totally Mag (totallymag.tk) that you may have seen on your LA friend's stack of graphic novels when you weren't allowed to sleep on the huge couch because new dick roommate doesn't know how to chill. She has a website that takes it back to the pure world of personal homepages / category buttons / x-files (prettycoolland.com), and she makes bleak / rager rave / bitcore /paegent anthems as I.E. (www.myspace.com/inlaempyre) featuring lyrics like "You ain't shit,You ain't shit,You ain't shit, Bitch *Click*You're off my myspace, go back to friendster bitch". It makes me smile.

    You know I'm basically going to heart anyone that treats the internet like the monkey bars and life like the geodesic dome that they don't have in playgrounds anymore. I was going to create the Q&A multiline Google Wave Interview matrix but thats not really in the spirit of MVP. Heres our very special e-mail exchange:

    > Who is the best person to look at computer things with?
    > Angie Olsen or Kyle H. Mabson

    > Tell me about the confluence of events that brought to life IE:

    > why does everyone in IE claim LA? Quem Quaeritis broke up, Prayer partner broke up, love making music.





    > How important is Totally Mag and why?

    > It's significant in the zine world i think it was one of the first to stray away from political rants, and riot girl diy stuff that is is    good in its own way i guess.


    > 2012 predictions:

    > all major webhosts and e-business' battle it out over who is the ruler of the internet. ie will have toured the east coast. brangelina divorce.

    > Tell me a bong story.
    > the first time i knocked over a bong my father yelled out "man, margot, you spilt the bong." i had to clean it up and it smelled so raunchy i learned that under any circumstance never spill the bong it is almost impossible to get out that bong water smell and its nasty. i think since the age of 13 i only spilled the bong water like 4x damn thats alot.

    > What else should I be asking you questions about?
    > i'm always experimenting with and making music. i plan on touring the east coast by the end of next year. my favorite color is red. my favorite fast food is del taco, my favorite band is raunchous brothers,
    <for now. i'm here for friends and networking.

    Follow IE @TotallyMag on Twitter, buy her album discs and try to be more like her.

     

  • My Top 11 YouTube Video realization moments of 2009

    Note: Some of these videos may have been uploaded awhile ago but I found them this year and thus they qualify for list status, DEAL.

    11. Cutty Ranks on that Sleng Teng riddim. If all reggae could be this dirty

    10. Learning about Vince Collins

    9.While I was away from Stress Ape, Max and Jesse joined Base of Bass and made me insanely jealous. (Low End Behold)

    8.Challenging Pop music from Bangs

    7.Trolling in Second Life in like using cum instead of lazers in Star Trexxx

    6. Same principles as Trolling, but with that art finesse. Alan Sondheim:

    5.Synthesis is really beyond any lever now

    4. Animation that looks like it was done in MSpaint is great

    3.The Japanese understand Pizza

    2.Tiga is underrated in the US

    1. Legalize Gay Marriage and Weed

  • COMBAT PAPER PROJECT

    Through papermaking workshops veterans use their uniforms worn in combat to create cathartic works of art. The uniforms are cut up, beat and formed into sheets of paper. Veterans use the transformative process of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to embrace their experiences as a soldier in war.

    The goal is to utilize art as a means to help veterans reconcile their personal experiences as well as broaden the traditional narrative surrounding service, honor and the military culture.

    Read more HERE.

  • Need You Gospel Tunes?

    The answer, by God, is YES.

    PRAISE TH'ECONOMY

    From Mississippi Records #004
    Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven... But Nobody Wants To Die


  • Atheist Love Story

    Atheist Love Story is a web comic by J. Marc Shmidt, an Australian writer and drawler. He publishes web comics on his website 3rdblade.net. He is also the author of "Socio-Political Themes in The Smurfs", soon to be republished as part of an essay collection titled "The Secrets of Pop Culture."

    Atheist Love Story is 5 installments long, so far.

  • This Is Your Brain, On

    Remdinds me of the classic X Tetris

  • Daggering Snaps Dicks

    Symptoms include a loud popping noise, swelling, deformation, etc. The Jamaica Star reports.

  • CHOP CUP

  • The Anthropic Principle

    Following a conversation in which the term was used, I checked Wikipedia for information on the "Anthropic Principle", for it was new to me.

    Then I cribbed some of the entry and re-posted it here as this week's What Would Google Think?, the blog series where I place Google's Adsense ads in obscure and/or strange contexts, to see what pops.

  • Jero The Enka Star

    Thanks to the internet, people like the amazing Ruthie Gaptoothy can send you videos to blow your mind out your ass. Yes there are black people in Japan, and they have absorbed all the powers that the pacific rim can bestow. Origami time lags, deep dark introspection and Pittsburg Steelers baseball caps.

  • There's Something In It

    Yellow Cake from Nick Cross on Vimeo.

  • Spambot Luv Is Hard to Reject + Spambots Vs. Googlebots

    Mostmodernist has achieved the level one threshold: we get spambot comments. The first time this editor saw one, this editor was flattered, and not because the spambots were finally paying attention. It was the spambots smooth operation.

  • C64 Done Dirty

    Sound mostly from Ballblazer, visuals mostly from Break Street. Vocal is various. Mashed by c64 Messiah

  • This You Don't Want To See

    The scene of the attack outside of Fenger High School in Chicago where Derrion Albert, 16, was beaten to death.

    The People of Chicago have a duty to watch this and think about the political and social conditions which contribute to horrific crime, poverty and the top-down institutionalization of inequality in education and opportunity. Democracy means we're all responsible for these conditions, and for rectifying them.

    On the topic of Chicago Schools

  • FFFRRRAAACCCTTAAALLLOOOGGGIIICCC

    To commemorate my maiden post on MostModernist (Smash a bottle of champag-nee on your computer), I present to you "My First Fractal"

    "Its like a reiterating pattern that shifts scale and is infinite and beautiful.

  • Sociographology

    There is an interesting piece in the NYTimes Magazine about a particular scientific study of social networks, modeled using gobs of handwritten data from research begun in 1948 by the National Heart Institute which "followed more than 15,000 Framingham (Massachusetts) residents and their descendants, bringing them in to a doctor’s office every four years, on average, for a comprehensive physical."

    The report of the study is that we are affected by people we may not even know, through 2nd and 3rd string connections. To wit: if a friend of a friend is happy, your happiness is heightened to some degree. If a friend of theirs gains weight, you incur a residual likelihood of same.

  • Edan - Echo Party
    Released in November, applicable to Spring, this is a 29:00 mix with old school cuts, new digital scratch technique supreme, a moving rhythm, and some future funk. HI QUALITY MP3 Click cover to play right click>save as
  • Buttstachio
  • Қазақ Әндері

    the chorus to this kazakh music song goes pretty hard

  • Kim Noble Is A Collective

    And she's so resource-efficient! 14+ painters, one census form. Dissociative Identity Disorder has redefined the art commune.

    Every one of the alters in Kim's body ("Kim", she says, is just the name that the collective gives to its vehicle; there is no "Kim" in Kim) does different styles to the work they make. A couple are color-&-form abstractists, one trucks exclusively in occult symbols, one restricts herself to rather disturbing renderings of seemingly ritual abuse. Judy, the 15-year-old, seems to enjoy duality. There are even anonymous artists in Kim, distinct from the thematic alters, who pop up from time to time.

    Please enjoy the fruits of a fractured mind here, and maybe try an appropriately/oddly disembodied virtual tour, if you'd rather a video. Bear in mind the poignancy of calling the work of internal personalities "outsider art."

  • Get On Your Good Footage

    A sound example of the splice genus by Vimeographer Ex guru.

  • WHAT

  • Do Whatcha Wilt

    Gosh but Thelema is some kooky scoubidou. Rabelais was the beast, I guess. Just look at that lusty old tosser. Click on him, even.


    gawrsh

    Who even knew for a second that the jokey once-monk icon of paleo-liberal thought would spawn legions of pasty palefaces in Ozzy costumes who think they kill angels by growling, like this guy. Is there any hint out there in the goth bookworm libraries that entire covens of black magicians are unfairly screwtaping this ancient jigglebilly's giddy fantasy of a godless heaven?


    a Thelemite lady

    Who woulda thunk that the uppity facebeard of Fontenay-le-Comte would one day have his humanist fantasies reimagined into fashion cues for multiple spicy myspacers in both hemispheres. My Gargantua wouldn't mind getting into her Pantagruel, if you feel me, if you know what I mean by that.

    No telling whether it's better to bear in mind or forget that The Beast 666 was a bit of involved with the following true story, nicked from a public Facebook note (links added for context):

    As first-time parents we have struggled with how to best cultivate participation in living Thelema in our daughter. Already we do Will to all meals and celebrate as a family the Thelemic Calendar. She just had her first sacrament and attends the regular Gnostic Masses in addition to the celebratory ones that she previously attended. She is loving it and wants to do more.

    Recently she has been tried to participate in Sunset Resh since she is always around when we do that and we have not discouraged her this and taught her how to do it. It is however largely impractical for a child of eight years old to do the fourfold adorations, since she attends school during the Noon Resh. I think the fourfold adorations are more proper to incorporate after one has celebrated ones Feast of Water and Fire.

    Today I chanced upon a variation of this and decided to teach her a sort of Thelemic evening prayer for Children, that is a simplified invocation of Horus before one goes to sleep. After explaining to her the meaning of each sentence (which was rather easy since she has a general conception of Khabs, Ka, Khu etc.) I taught her the following evening prayer whch she really enjoyed and was enthusiastic about. It has the benefit of teaching them in a very direct and ritual way aspects of the Thelemic cosmogony as well as memorizing parts of the Book of the Law.

    The rest of the note--and the prayer itself, which includes the basic instruction to "assume the godform of Sa and change to Dua . . . while visualising the different aspects of Ra, Khu, Ka and Khabs"--here. This concludes today's item on the subject of religious tolerance. Here's another picture of the girl.


    by the eye of Isis what daemon magick is thissss

  • Yvette's Bridal

    web design is a living thing

  • Muzorama

    I ain't intend to turn this into Euro surrealist week but the universe keeps on passin the dutchie so we follow suit. For your pleasure please view Muzorama, a depthy barnburning sortie into the dream-logic universe of French illustrator Muzo, made in six weeks by students at Supinfocom (Arles campus). Watch, dig, spread.

    UPDATE: Authentic 2-D Muzo to be had in Les Très Riches Heures du Cannabis, published in ancient times (1998), lookable on scribd and gettable at amazon.fr. Let's all learn French, why don't we.

  • The More Things Change

    Welcome back from the holidays. We are all overjoyed!

    It ain't exactly news (c. 2008, spring) but all human beings deserve to remember that Italian muralist & illustrator BLU did an enormous thing to unsuspecting walls in Argentina & Germany. Seriously, watch:

    Download it for yr own self al suo sito. This has been your decennial reminder to write in books and paint on walls.

  • JAZZ WILL EAT ITSELF

    Kermit '59 takes teach from his pal Harry. Aired on Sam and Friends.

  • Break Breakdown

    via friend Jeff W. from visual thesaurus

    click to make big

  • Dr. Beetroot Manto Tshabalala-Msimang Is Dead

    An echelon official in the South African political bureaucracy and an HIV/AIDS denier, Tshabalala-Msimang passed away Wednesday when her liver failed. She was 69.

    De wiki:

    A case that attracted much public attention was Nozipho Bhengu, daughter of an African National Congress legislator, who rejected anti-retroviral treatments for AIDS in favor of Tshabalala-Msimang's garlic and lemon diet. The minister declined to attend her funeral, and her stand-in was booed off the podium.

    See, they called her Dr. Beetroot because she recommended a healthy diet and a tincture of local extracts as a treatment for HIV. It seemed to function all right as a palliative (Ms. Bhengu showed all the signs of health before dying, as the Economist will tell you), but didn't do much to actually treat the disease. There's sort of a lot of misunderstanding about HI-5 on the Mother Continent.

    Case & point: current SA president and arraigned rapist Jacob Zuma testified that he took a shower, following the alleged incident, to limit his risk of HIV. He usually uses condoms, he said, but did not have one at the time. It is rumored among joke-ass suckers that Zuma's AIDS shower was actually intended to prevent that thing you get when your balls stick to yr legs or yr jimmy gets all glued to the nut pouch in yr boxer-briefs, which is honestly no laughing matter. Maybe let's get the Bill & Mel Gates Charity Foundry in touch with these folks. Free condoms in spaza shops!

    Here's Manto's obit piece in Times LIVE, wherein many of her critics are reported as forgiving her. Right nice of them, really.



    and um on a lighter note do you guys remember when people like this used to happen

  • GOOD OLE AMERICAN PARTTTY LIFFFE

    Margot Padilla is a renaissance woman and should probaly be president of "non-shitty" america. She has a brilliant celebrity zine Totally Mag (totallymag.tk) that you may have seen on your LA friend's stack of graphic novels when you weren't allowed to sleep on the huge couch because new dick roommate doesn't know how to chill. She has a website that takes it back to the pure world of personal homepages / category buttons / x-files (prettycoolland.com), and she makes bleak / rager rave / bitcore /paegent anthems as I.E. (www.myspace.com/inlaempyre) featuring lyrics like "You ain't shit,You ain't shit,You ain't shit, Bitch *Click*You're off my myspace, go back to friendster bitch". It makes me smile.

    You know I'm basically going to heart anyone that treats the internet like the monkey bars and life like the geodesic dome that they don't have in playgrounds anymore. I was going to create the Q&A multiline Google Wave Interview matrix but thats not really in the spirit of MVP. Heres our very special e-mail exchange:

    > Who is the best person to look at computer things with?
    > Angie Olsen or Kyle H. Mabson

    > Tell me about the confluence of events that brought to life IE:

    > why does everyone in IE claim LA? Quem Quaeritis broke up, Prayer partner broke up, love making music.





    > How important is Totally Mag and why?

    > It's significant in the zine world i think it was one of the first to stray away from political rants, and riot girl diy stuff that is is    good in its own way i guess.


    > 2012 predictions:

    > all major webhosts and e-business' battle it out over who is the ruler of the internet. ie will have toured the east coast. brangelina divorce.

    > Tell me a bong story.
    > the first time i knocked over a bong my father yelled out "man, margot, you spilt the bong." i had to clean it up and it smelled so raunchy i learned that under any circumstance never spill the bong it is almost impossible to get out that bong water smell and its nasty. i think since the age of 13 i only spilled the bong water like 4x damn thats alot.

    > What else should I be asking you questions about?
    > i'm always experimenting with and making music. i plan on touring the east coast by the end of next year. my favorite color is red. my favorite fast food is del taco, my favorite band is raunchous brothers,
    <for now. i'm here for friends and networking.

    Follow IE @TotallyMag on Twitter, buy her album discs and try to be more like her.

     

  • My Top 11 YouTube Video realization moments of 2009

    Note: Some of these videos may have been uploaded awhile ago but I found them this year and thus they qualify for list status, DEAL.

    11. Cutty Ranks on that Sleng Teng riddim. If all reggae could be this dirty

    10. Learning about Vince Collins

    9.While I was away from Stress Ape, Max and Jesse joined Base of Bass and made me insanely jealous. (Low End Behold)

    8.Challenging Pop music from Bangs

    7.Trolling in Second Life in like using cum instead of lazers in Star Trexxx

    6. Same principles as Trolling, but with that art finesse. Alan Sondheim:

    5.Synthesis is really beyond any lever now

    4. Animation that looks like it was done in MSpaint is great

    3.The Japanese understand Pizza

    2.Tiga is underrated in the US

    1. Legalize Gay Marriage and Weed

  • Before They Were Stardust

  • Celebrate Fred Hampton

    Born in Chicago, killed in Chicago.


    The father of the notion of a rainbow coalition was assassinated twoscore years ago today, sold out by a mark called William O'Neal for thirty pieces of ten-dollar money. J. Edgar "Mary" Hoover put out the hit and CPD donated pressure to the trigger. Mr. Hampton was 21 years old. Vivat vox porcus. COINTELPRO-a-go-go.

    Please be 18+ before using this image.

    In honor and solemn remembrance we offer a film portrait of Chairman Fred's personal electricity, free to download below for all to see and learn. The Murder of Fred Hampton is a 1971 documentary loaded full with absolutely classic oratory. It is a must-see. Bit-torrenters can also grab it from Seedpeer, if you prefer. Watch and become educated about the greatest man ever to stand trial as an ice cream thief.


    TORRENT IT>>>

    GET IT DIRECT>>>

  • Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou - Vol. 2 Echos Hypnotiques

    Earth Wind and Africa
  • James Pants - Psychik Alamanak Vol. 1

    Psychik Mix. You know you like the Psy Chiks.

  • Wild Game of Animal Chase

    part of #laserweek on Twitter

    WILD TRAITS IN TAME SPECIES from NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS on Vimeo.

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