A dangerous shot by Mario Aldecoa
- Open Engagement, the conference for socially engaged art making, takes place in Pittsburgh this year. They are now accepting submissions for projects, panels, presentations, and workshops. [Open Engagement]
- Look people – graffiti is made with the knowledge that it probably won’t last. It’s common for artists to tag other artists work, for property owners to paint over the tags, and for vandalization to occur. So when a guy, in this case, David William Noll, defaces two Park City murals believed to have been done by Banksy, don’t threaten him with the cost of restoration and jail time. His tags are part of the art. [Detroit Free Press]
- The Rolling Jubilee has announced that they have purchased nearly four million dollars of student. Additionally, they are launching Debt Collective, a platform for organization, advocacy, and resistance by debtors. More details will be released soon, we hope. You are not a loan. [Strike Debt]
- Alexandra Schwartz discusses Google Art Project, comparing falling in love with an art work online to falling in love with a person over a long term correspondence. Really? Who else is spending that much time in front of an image online who isn’t getting paid to do so? Anyway, read some overly precious writing about art, and feel good about the time you’ve spent in the alternative universe that is the Google Art Project. [The New Yorker]
- In the department of the absurd, the Palo Alto Longevity Prize will offer a mere one million dollars to the person who cures old age. According to Aubrey de Grey, the chief science officer of the SENS Research Foundation, “With sufficient funding we have a 50/50 chance to getting this all working within the next 25 years, but it could also happen in the next 100,” LOL. [Techcrunch]
- Now that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has withdrawn from the Mayoral race, his brother Doug Ford has announced he will run in his stead. Here’s some choice quotes from Ford brother number two. [Elect Doug Ford]
- On Wonder Woman’s secret feminist past. [The New Yorker via: Long Form]
- A man has his camera eaten by an alligator, only to find the camera one year later in the swamp. The memory card still worked. [Sandisk]
