Graffiti is writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. If done without permission from the property owner, it is considered defacement and vandalism. Graffiti may express underlying social and political messages and a whole genre of
Year: 2013
Now, this is the article where crime and art definitely overlap. “Crime, prevention and security in the arts – tips from the experts” is a piece I found on the Cultural Professionals UK News Website, written by Matthew Caines. Caines discusses that “crime prevention is all about identifying the threats,
The question that will constantly pop in your head when you are watching the play, “Crime and Pun-ishment: A Mobster Murder Mystery.” A play where you get to feel like you are part of the scenes while provided a three course meal, where you are trying to discover the answers
Thrill Kill is a cancelled and unpublished 1998 fighting video game for the Sony PlayStation. While the technical feat of allowing four players to fight simultaneously in the same room was to be a major selling point, this was overshadowed by the controversy surrounding the game’s depictions of violence and
I wanted to take note of the “child leash.” Although was not able to capture a photo, I did find myself as a witness to quite an ironic scene this weekend. Strolling through Macy’s I passed by a women who was pulling her energetic child on a leash while cradling
In the town of Diepsloot, one of Johannesburg’s largest informal settlements, is known to be embedded with crimes wherever you go. However, not all the people are looking for trouble, but just the opposite. Both the video and article are short, but it says so much. A man named Lakinka
To summarize the video, Julijonas Urbonas, a man from Lithuania, designed and engineered a rollercoaster to “humanly euthanize” anyone who rode it. He explains that death occurs due to extreme g force (10 g’s to be exact). Although pilots experience this many g’s during a flight test simulation, it is
Seventeen Magazine is famous for the “Body Peace” campaign they launched several years ago, which provides teen readers with words of encouragement, along with diet and exercise tips. I don’t have any problem with this, however it does seem to contradict the girls they choose as models. If they want
HERE IS AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ARTIST: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/marni_kotak_gives_birth.php In October 2011, performance artist Marni Kotak performed a very curious piece of art. Kotak set up a home birth room inside the Microscope Gallery in Brushwick, Pennsylvania–with her grandmother’s bed, her mother’s chair, and a miniature inflatable pool–for a month-long gallery
In a Florida museum there was an exhibit of human bodies. The exhibit used real corpses that are posed in various positions, fetuses, and other body parts. The exhibit caused some type of controversy because the bodies were unidentified/unclaimed individuals from China and there was never any consent given to