Black Panthers patrol polling places at Philadelphia

Chris Jordan Pictures: Consumer Fractals of America

Massive cellphone spiral wave (world technovortex into itself).
Chris Jordan is an american artist who explores the "vast and bizarre measures of our society" weaving distance into fractal: "near vs far" or the pounding methamorphosis of molecules into mountains. "I hope to raise some questions about the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming".

Bizzare city assembled of circuitry-boards as blocks of slumming dystopian urbanity.

Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.

"Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics".

Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.

Depicts one hundred million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees cut in the U.S. yearly to make the paper for junk mail.

Bansky dizzes Wall Street: Let Them Eat Crack

A blood and money dripping rat runs carefully away with the people's cash. This in Broadway, an artvertisment you can see off the rearview mirror as you head into Wall Street. LET THEM EAT CRACK wss compleetd october 2.

A couple of days before Bansky hung this other sarcastic rat near Soho. Rather coarse and unexciting, lifted in its energy a bit by its sequel. New York, Gotham, the city of Highstreet rats.

Photos from the Democratic and Republican Conventions

Great blog of raw images around and about the National Conventions in Denver and St.Paul: protest galore, police bloopers and trepidations, celebrity criss-cross, concerts and fire, lights and faces with fucking great lenses.

Via Marmua: http://drunkatdnc.blogspot.com

Sarah Palin bikini photoshop picture

Ultraconservative Republican Vicepresident candidate Sarah Palin's rifle affection and beauty pageant past has been made fun in the internet with this buzz fueled picture.