Miami Beach Police Shoot Up Car
A police chase and firefight on the streets of South Beach Monday morning ended with officers shooting into a car on Collins Avenue and killing the driver, bringing a bloody conclusion to Miami Beach’s annual Memorial Day weekend parties.
By 5:30 a.m., police were investigating two officer-involved shootings. One alleged gunman was dead, four bystanders were wounded — possibly by police gunfire — and three officers were being treated at Mount Sinai Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening. None has been named by police.
Club and bar hoppers in town for the massively popular Urban Beach Week scattered and screamed as gunshots followed after the weaving car. Some on the relatively empty stretch of Collins Avenue jumped behind cars or into bushes as shots grew closer and louder.
Hundreds of officers shut down the heart of South Beach.
“This incident really mars us,” said Mayor Matti Herrera Bower.
Police Chief Carlos Noriega said the weekend’s relative peace was shattered just before 4 a.m. when a driver struck an officer with his car near Collins Avenue and 16th Street. Noriega said the officer was not from Miami Beach, but an employee of one of many departments who help police South Beach’s Urban Beach Week crowds, which come for hip-hop shows and private parties and can grow to be several hundred thousand strong.
Miami Beach PD shot up a car and killed the crazy guy inside that was shooting at them. Typical Memorial Day (Urban Weekend) in sunny South Beach.
Via: Miami Herald
View this amazing footage caught by...what sounds to be a local.
Was The King...Jewish?
In 1998, The Wall Street Journal published an article titled, "All Shook Up in the Holy Land" exposing Elvis Presley's unlikely Jewish lineage. Apparently, Elvis' maternal great-great grandmother, Nancy Burdine, was a Jew. Her daughter gave birth to Doll Mansell who gave birth to Gladys Smith who gave birth to Elvis. Although it sounds improbable, according to Jewish law, which confers Jewish lineage by way of the mother, that makes Elvis Presley Jewish.
Furthermore, this fact was something that Elvis was apparently aware of and even sensitive to. For example, there is a famous picture of Elvis performing in Salt Lake City in 1972 wearing a Jewish "chai" symbol, and when Elvis' mother Gladys died in 1959 he made sure to put a Jewish Star of David on her headstone. But even if Elvis may have been technically Jewish, and was even aware of his background, he was not at all observant.
Apparently Elvis was Jewish by his great great grandma.
Via: Aish.com
Via: Yes-Butno.com
Monster
Money
Pretty clever crafted money that has your favorite movie monsters. Hmm, I wonder if a $100 Dracula bill can cover dinner for me and my family? Blood money now takes on a new meaning. ha.
Since 1999, the Glasgow-based artist Jim Lambie (1964) has used glossy tape in varying colors to build floor installations such as Touch Zobop (2003). The vinyl tape, an everyday material applied in continuous lines, has a capacity to transform the dynamics of space, changing a quiet gallery space into an energetic and emotional space of sensory pleasure. Lambie creates a rhythm that vibrates and pulsates, and even confuses and disorients the spectator.
According to Lambie:
“For me something like Zobop, the floor piece, it is creating so many edges that they all dissolve. Is the room expanding or contracting? … Covering an object somehow evaporates the hard edge off the thing, and pulls you towards more of a dreamscape.”
Lambie has a musical background. Like music, his art fills its surroundings and transforms the environment. As Lambie says, “You put a record on and it’s like all the edges disappear. You’re in a psychological space. You don’t sit there thinking about the music, you’re listening to the music. You’re inside that space that the music’s making for you.”
JIM LAMBIE
Via: Web Exhibits
Image: C-Monster
James "Jim" Lambie (born 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a contemporary visual artist, and was shortlisted for the 2005 Turner Prize with an installation called Mental Oyster.
In 1959 Vincent Price wrote I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography recounting his lifelong love affair with the art world.
VINCENT LIKES
TO KNOW.
“Most art books (and this isn’t one) discuss the artist’s date of birth, his background, his teacher, and endless, detailed depictions of his work…I want the readers to question themselves as I have questioned myself, in my desire to know the art of the past and, at the same time, accept and get to know the art of today and to be ready for the art of tomorrow. - Vincent Price
There's only one word to describe this, and the word doesn't even exist.
BIZARREO
It's not broken. I just don't like you.
Fredrik Raddum live and work in Oslo. He works with sculpture, installation, photo and performance related journeys. He has exhibited at various spaces since 1999
Via: Fredrik Raddum
CLASSIC CARTOON FILM ADS
These are pretty remarkable ads of cartoons from Colombia Pictures and others. I love the imagery even more so because they are rather ghostly. Anything vintage spooky/Halloween I'm totally into it. Add on cartoons and I'm a fan! Enjoy.
Via: Paul Malon
"My feeling about fear is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I’m superstitious enough to believe that."
- Meryl Streep
Epic Photo Moment.
The Dark Arts of Fashion?
Steve Thompson has combined two of my favorite things, Star Wars and spending rainy Sunday afternoons coloring in. Thompson has carved some favorite characters including Darth Vader, Chewbacca, C3PO, and a StormTrooper out of the tips of Crayola crayons.
Star Wars Carved Crayolas
Via: Dead Fly NY
You are seeing triple, but it's not from the drugs. These kaleidoscopic images were created by Japanese architect and photographer Kazuhiko Kawahara (moonlighting under the name Palla). In 2002, Palla began digitally manipulating urban snapshots and posting them on his blog, Pallalink.net. This led to a little ad hoc crowdsourcing: Site visitors left remarks and suggestions that Palla channeled into his art. "Thanks to everyone's comments," he says, "the quality of my work has gotten better." (It's a two-way street: Earlier this year Palla donated The Unfold Cityscape, above, to the open source movie collective a Swarm of Angels.)
Via: Wired
Johnny's family moved frequently during his childhood, and he and his siblings lived in more than 20 different locations, settling in Miramar, Florida, in 1970.
In 1978, Depp's parents divorced. He engaged in self-harm as a child, due to the stress of dealing with family problems. He has seven or eight self-inflicted scars.
In a 1993 interview, he explained his self-injury by saying, "My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist"
DEPP IN TRANSITION
Via: Wiki
