In January, a friend of Earshot Presents named Andrew Rudy sent us a link to a vid of his brother Joe on the news. Joe and his friend Chris Russo were on television telling a New Jersey reporter about the UFO they saw over Morristown, around where they both live. The strange lights in the…
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Milton Glaser on Shepard Fairey’s use of Obama photo
From the NY Times, Monday February 9th, 2009: In a pre-emptive strike, the street artist Shepard Fairey filed a lawsuit on Monday against The Associated Press, asking a federal judge to declare that he is protected from copyright infringement claims in his use of a news photograph as the basis for a now ubiquitous campaign…
Vail skier hangs pantless from chairlift
from The Smoking Gun January 6th, 2008—-In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado’s ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning. The January 1 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier, 48, and a child boarded…
Note: MP3s save lives.
We seemed to have missed this news when it was news. AP – Sunday, December 28– SAVOGNIN, Switzerland -Swiss rescue officials say they have found two missing skiers after spotting the light from their MP3 music player. The Swiss air rescue association Rega says it received a distress call from the French tourists late Friday…