Dearling NYC-folk,

May I humbly recommend waiting in the absurdly long line to view mysterypants-british-street-artist Banksy’s “Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill” on 7th avenue between Bleeker and W.4th. It puts the ‘bing’ back in disturbing, or something. whatever. go see it because it’s only here until halloween (yay ephermal!).

For ye who liveth in elsewhere, I took some video:

(yes that is a swimming fish stick)

learn more about banksy if you like.

yes, the rumors are indeed true: I am the sheriff of Lametown, USA and I have been missing for some time now. But! canada was ridiculously rad, and I have returned to you refreshed and re-bloggifull.

and so, I would like to share with you the following dirty-car-art by scott wade- because one man’s vehicular-safety-hazzard is another man’s treasure.

*found via my “dogs playing poker” google news alert.

Just when you thought you had seen the final slug this month on NSTGD, the folk behind the “little people” tiny street art project have gone and a-started graffiti-ing snail shells…

and they call it Inner City Snail, and it makes me all pitter-pattery with joy. Also, the little people take snail public transport it seems…

swoon.

Also - hello! to the 1 billion extra hits I have gotten since the lovely jules over at ikeahacker posted my fira-shelf becomes disco-drawers how-to.

via rebet:art.

found via rebel:art - pretty much just a collection of signs directing you to the Internet. there are more. I’m not sure I know how to explain why I find this concept so funny. maybe its the concept of physical navigation to a virtual place? or maybe I just like somewhat absurd photo-collections. either way, checkout the rest of em.

and let me gush some more for rebel:art, (if you aren’t subscribed to their rss, you are basically dead to me), check out geeky global guerilla street art, part of the “space invaders” movement:

and

I’m sorry, this is just too exciting not to share.

Dwarf crime a ‘growing problem’

Thieves are robbing long-distance coaches by sneaking dwarves into the luggage holds in sports bags.

Once inside, they slip out from their hiding places to rifle through the belongings of unsuspecting travellers.

Then they take their loot back to their hiding place and wait to be collected by another gang member when the coach reaches its destination, reports The Sun.

They have stolen thousands of pounds in cash, gems and other valuables in recent months.

Swebus, which ferries thousands of Brits across Sweden, has been among coach firms targeted.

A spokesman said: “We have had reports about several thefts by dwarves on the stretch between Vasteras and Stockholm.

“We’re thinking of installing video cameras.”

A Stockholm Police spokesman said: “We are looking at our records to identify criminals of limited stature.”

If you ask me, which you totally didn’t, your legal-employment options, as a little person, are none too varied (backing up kid rock or starring in dunkin donuts commercials etc) and it’s certainly not their fault that their DNA picked the short straw, so to speak… I say, more power to ‘em.

This flickr group project, “the decapitator“, seamlessly marries my appreciation of fictionalized, well-designed gore, and creative, somewhat-artistic, guerrilla projects with my lack-of-appreciation for ad-pollution*….

pure, icky hilarity!

dearest dears of the interweb,

I apologize muchly that I have been absent for so long, but clearly, as is evident below, I had very Important Things to do in sunny Virginia over the holidays:

blame suburbia.

never pass up an opportunity to distort (in a somewhat benign and whimsical way) someone’s sense of reality. a group of folks invaded their friend’s apartment and made an art installation of it, while he was away. The video is particularly entertaining, as the narration is in some absurd unintelligible “language” that they obviously made up:

Karolina Sobecka projects an animated tiger through the window of her moving car onto unsuspecting city landscapes. The tiger’s movements and speed are determined by the vehicle’s velocity. Objectively, this is the Most Splendid Art Project Ever ™.

Watch:

It would be funnier if I were kidding…