And it begins. I have been wondering for some months how long it would take law enforcementy types to realize that they could use social networks like MySpace and Flickr to track down graffiti and streetartists and the evidence (or leads to the evidence) they would need to bring a case. Users add fresh pictures of their latest escapades near daily. While I hoped that the Police would never get wise, it appears that the Boston Police just used MySpace to catch some kids (to the tune of $75,000 in damages).

Bill Waterson is releasing The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, a 1,456-page behemoth containing every panel ever published. It is three volumes. I must have it.

Calvin and Hobbes was magnificent, however, the Boondocks is sublime.

Update:

The Comic-Strip Revolution Will Be Televised Write up about Boondocks, the animated series, in the New York Times.

Jenny Holzer’s response to September 11th can be seen on the side of Bobst Library at New York University through the 5th. Projected onto the wall of the west side of the building (on Laguardia between 3rd and 4th streets) are various redacted government documents recently released under the Freedom of Information Act.

In addition to Bobst, Ms. Holzer will be showing her work on the facade of the Public Library from October 6th through the 9th.

I need to check the photos I took but if I have a good one I will post it here.

And just so you can get an idea of how big it was…

More about the exhibition can be found in this article from the NYTimes.

A writer named Shelley Jackson has written a new story, with a twist. The only publication of the story will be tattooed, one word at a time, on willing participants in the project. According to her website:

The text will be published nowhere else, and the author will not permit it to be summarized, quoted, described, set to music, or adapted for film, theater, television or any other medium. The full text will be known only to participants, who may, but need not choose to establish communication with one another

After the work has been completed:

participants will be known as “words”. They are not understood as carriers or agents of the texts they bear, but as its embodiments. As a result, injuries to the printed texts, such as dermabrasion, laser surgery, tattoo cover work or the loss of body parts, will not be considered to alter the work. Only the death of words effaces them from the text. As words die the story will change; when the last word dies the story will also have died. The author will make every effort to attend the funerals of her words.

Thanks to Xeni for the link

A dop·pel·gäng·er is a “ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its fleshly counterpart.” This is quite the opposite.

Apparently, David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame) has been an artist (in the visual sense) for over 35 years. His newest installation uses PowerPoint. . . It’s currently showing in the lobby of the Conde Nast Building at 7th and 42nd Street. I’m going to have to sneak over there between classes tomorrow.