…I came across this photo on flickr and now I’m feeling quite queasy. Can that really be only one person’s hair? I really don’t understand this anyway – why would anyone ever want to do that to themselves. It’s just….
I think I have to go and lay down.
Originally uploaded by @pepper
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It’s old news online, but a British artist who goes by the name of Banksy, has been placing paintings he’s created into the exhibits of major art galleries including the MoMA, the Museum of Natural History and the Brooklyn Museum, all in New York. He walks into the galleries dressed as a retiree in a coat and hat, finds his spot and, with the aid of an accomplice, places his piece of work on the wall with a tag describing the piece, whilst his accomplice photographs the scene which is ongoing. He’s also got a large catalogue of graffiti work which is always clever and at times disturbing.
Link to woostercollective breaking the news of the charade…
Banksy.co.uk homepage
At the bottom of his website he has the disclaimer:
Banksy is a fictional character and in no way endorses any form of criminal behaviour whatsoever.
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Citing the inequity of the property taxes he pays on his homes in Omaha, Neb., and Laguna Beach, Buffett said the California cap on property taxes imposed by Prop. 13 “makes no sense.”
Prop. 13 passed 25 years ago with 65 percent of the vote, and an entire generation of Californians believe that voting for the measure is the best single vote they’ve ever cast. The proposition rolled back property taxes and limited their annual increase to 2 percent.
– 2003 SF Chronicle
This is what has happened in Washinton State – the wealthy with their large houses and palacial pools, cars and ocean views have apprehended all recent attempts to raise tax, to fund education and to give a better life for children of the state. As Stephen Pierzchala says:
My kids were going into the highly underfunded, if not malnourished and dying, system of non-education in California that resulted from one of the greatest breeders of inequity in the modern world — Proposition 13.
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I don’t know if the world is awake to this at the moment, but over the last couple weeks Radio1 (BBC Music station in the UK) has been trailing OneClick, the cool and ‘hip’ alternative to Five Live’s ‘Up All Night’, which is a ‘global’ news magazine – meaning, in practice, that they carry a lot of American content as that’s the part of the world that’s actually awake from 1AM in the morning. Anyway, I always liked OneClick, but for some reason they’ve ditched or been ditched by Miquita Oliver, the magazine’s previous host. Now the radio show is hosted by one Bethan Elfyn, a voice which will I’m sure be easier to get used to hearing that it is to get used to spelling. I’m sure it’ll still be grand but, not quite the same.
Perhaps she’s just been far too busy with the details of SingStar Popworld: karaoke loveliness from the Sony stable that is ready for another swat at the tween market from May. and once they’d worked their magic the first time, creating a game that lets little girls sing along to their favorite Pop Idol tracks, they’ve gone one step further and let Miquita and Simon, from the Channel 4 Popworld show, wreak their havoc on the product. It’s sure to get millions of sales…link
Miquita, you will be missed.
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