He has confided that he dreams of being added to Mount Rushmore. Maybe this will have to do… Environmentalist group wants to carve Trump’s face in glacier by Max Jaeger New York Post May 1, 2018 They want to melt the president in effigy. A Finnish group is raising money to carve President Trump’s face into a glacier and then live stream it as it thaws — all to raise awareness about global warming. Watch the Project … [Read more...]

Well, it was alive at some point… Wildlife photo competition disqualifies ‘stuffed anteater’ image by Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent 27 April 2018 A winning entry in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has been disqualified for featuring a taxidermy specimen. The image, known as The Night Raider, shows an anteater moving towards a termite mound in a Brazilian reserve. Mr Cabral said flashes and a long … [Read more...]

Burning Man’s co-founder dead at 70: How his event changed the world by Chris Taylor Mashable April 28, 2018 Larry Harvey, the co-founder of the Burning Man festival who grew it from an event on a San Francisco beach to a desert arts festival of global significance, died Saturday. He was 70. Harvey had been hospitalized after a stroke on April 4, and had remained in critical condition. “Though we all hoped he would recover, he passed … [Read more...]

A lot of finger pointing here… Mobile art project gives middle finger to Hillary and Trump by Oli Coleman Page Six April 30, 2018 “DEFIANCE” (Donald Trump) and “FAIR GAME” (Hillary Clinton) are each made from 4,000 hand-cast urethane middle fingers by artist Kevin Champeny. Courtesy Kevin Champeny An artist is arranging a massive moving art installation in which two trucks will carry giant portraits of Hillary … [Read more...]

In 1981, Don Joyce launched Over the Edge, a weekly program on KPFA in Berkeley comprised of cut-up tapes and surrealist social commentary. By the time he passed in 2015, he had been a core member of the legendary avant-garde rock band Negativland, engaged in numerous high-profile intellectual property controversies (including tangles with Pepsi and U2), helped popularize the plunderphonics movement (which intersected with hip-hop and … [Read more...]

It’s the wild, wild west. Why has Google Maps, “plagued by fake reviews, ghost listings, lead generation schemes and impersonators,” barely begun to fight back? These online volunteers fight fake reviews, ghost listings and other scams on Google Maps — and say the problem’s getting worse by Jillian D’Onfro CNBC April 13, 2018 Tom Waddington was hanging out at a friend’s house when he got an unexpected … [Read more...]

Fake subway ads promoting the services offered by President Trump’s fixer, attorney Michael Cohen, have appeared in New York City subways. The anonymous force behind the ads, website and telephone message you receive when you call the phone number on the ad is interviewed in the Village Voice. Meet the Creator of the Fake Michael Cohen Subway Ad by Neil Demause Village Voice April 20, 2018 Dirty deeds, done for a reasonable retainer Photo … [Read more...]

Money, money, money… money. “Oyefeso is one of the most high-profile figures of an internet subculture that reveres Jordan Belfort and has taken his Wolf of Wall Street persona to social media. Posing as ultra-wealthy kids and posting internet memes taken from the movie, its followers aggressively sign up young people to what looks like an international pyramid scheme that has helped to generate billions of pounds for large … [Read more...]

Gene Policinski, President & COO of the Newseum Institute, opines on the Sinclair Publishing hostage scenario revealed by Deadspin in a video of news anchors all over the country spouting chillingly identical propaganda. Policinski: Next time, just put your name to the message Gene Policinski Indise the First Amendment April 7, 2018 Sinclair Broadcasting’s recent promotional message on the state of today’s news — delivered … [Read more...]

For savvy fashionista paranoiacs, tinfoil just won’t cut it anymore. “There’s Now a Hat That Can Fool Facial Recognition Technology” By Sean Keach The Sun March 23, 2018 Scientists have invented a baseball cap that can trick facial recognition tech into thinking you’re someone else entirely. The hi-tech headwear uses laser dots to fool software like Apple’s Face ID, which works by scanning your face to identify … [Read more...]