Cow and Pen by Megan Abbott

My friend Megan Abbott illustrated my two cats, Cowcat and Pen, as a wonderful Christmas gift. :)

KID PK on the New Jersey water tower

I was watching this video on the mystery of KID PK graffiti when I saw my own photo of the iconic graffiti water tower location in the video. I figured if they were going to steal my image, I may as well add a couple more to the mix.

I remember stopping on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike a few years back to capture this tower with my telephoto lens. There’s not much room on the edges so trucks are often zooming by at highway speeds — quite dangerous if I remember correctly.

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The tower was demolished not too long ago and today the location of the tower is a massive Modway warehouse facility. If you go to 40°16'40.7"N 74°30'12.5"W on Google Maps or Google Earth you can likely go back in history and see the tower preserved digitally.

My original image which can be seen in the beginning of the video above.

Here’s drone footage of the water tower getting demolished.

Hanksy’s Trump Turd

Putting this on the internet so it lasts forever.

Stimulation Clicker revisited

I had some downtime yesterday and decided to play Neal’s Stimulation Clicker browser game to the very, very end.

It took some time, and in the end I was way overstimulated, but the effort was well worth it. Yes, you too can get your game to look like the image here in this post!

Give it another try if you dare!

Stimulation Clicker

If you need something to do to kill some time on a computer, head on over to Neal’s Stimulation Clicker. I don’t want to give anything away, but the premise of this “game” is pretty simple: Click the button and win some prizes. The page gradually gets more loaded with not only visual stimulation but audio ones as well.

I played for a long time and never quite “won”. I think I just ended up having enough, but I just couldn’t look away.

Give it a try and have fun!

Thanks Kottke!

Radiant Site: A wall of gold tiles at 34th St Station

The MTA has a pretty extensive art program to bring life to the otherwise dreary underworld of the NYC Subway. Sometimes, the public art is big and in your face and other times it seems to hide in plain sight, like this piece called Radiant Site by artist Michele Oka Doner.

Michele’s work, completed in 1991, consists of 11,000 hand-made gold tiles spanning the entire length of a passenger corridor at 34th St-Herald Square station in NYC (near the ramps leading down to the BDFM platforms). Each tile was made at the historic Pewabic Pottery in Detroit and feature differing levels of gold shine; the darker ones at the tops and bottom and the brightest ones filling the center.

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Next time you’re traveling through this station, be sure to look forward and up at this iconic piece!

Play DOOM inside a PDF

I mean, this is art. Maybe even Art with a capital A.

If you open this link inside a Chromium browser (Google Chrome), you’ll be presented with a fully playable black and white version of the classic DOOM video game. Yes, playable. The complete source is posted over at Github and based on what I can understand, it seems like the creator is using the Javascript support naturally allowed in a PDF file to make this interactive PDF.

If you prefer to play DOOM in full color on your browser, check out this link here.

Graffiti artist VAYNE covers the John Lewis Freedom Parkway in Atlanta

Just got word from the Museum of Graffiti that the artist VAYNE has completed a huge piece over the John Lewis Freedom Parkway in Atlanta, GA. VAYNE has been killing it with huge pieces in NYC but seeing the size and scale of this one in Atlanta is just on a whole other level!

If you find yourself in the area visiting the nearby Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, don’t forget to check this monster piece out!