The Gossip Machine, Churning Out Cash
I just found
a great article from the New York Post that shows how "Celebrity Gossip" has developed into a new form of business for celebrities and gossip sites such as TMZ or Radar. Every little bit of the celebrities private lifes is exploited by the media and millions of people can't get enough of the juicy details of Schwarzenegger's affair, Charlie Sheen's latest outburst or the juicy details of Robert Pattinson's relationship with Kristen Stewart. The public life is forced onto them as soon as they've entered the entertainment business, and either they try to resist by avoiding known celebrity hot spots and leading a quiet life behind closed doors, or they try to use the cameras following their every move to boost their fame.
This is often a dirty game as the gossip sites have proved their unscrupulous work ethic in the past, e.g. when they've obtained pictures of Rihanna after she was beaten up by her then-boyfriend Chris Brown, or when they've bought the medical records of Britney Spears after her hospitalization in Cedar's-Sinai Medical Center in 2008, not forgetting the death of Lady Diana in a car accident after she was chased by a horde of paparazzi.
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Take Home a Pair of MS/DC Sneakers, Doodled on by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park
Take home this pair of
MS/DC sneakers, doodled on by
Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park. The sneakers were also on display in the Los Angeles DC store!
The proceeds for this item benefit Music for Relief for Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Relief
Michael Kenji Shinoda is a Japanese American songwriter, performer, record producer and visual artist from Agoura Hills, California. He is best known for his vocal and musical endeavors with two-time Grammy winning, multi-platinum rock band Linkin Park. The band has sold over 50 million albums worldwide to date. Their debut, "Hybrid Theory" is certified diamond (10 million sold) by the Recording Industry Association of America. The group's most recent album, "A Thousand Suns," debuted at #1 in the US and 14 other countries this year, and has already sold over 1.5 million units worldwide.
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In Turkey, the ‘friendship train’ encourages children to visit museums
ANKARA, Turkey, 12 May 2011 – Thirty-three child members of Turkey’s provincial child rights committees undertook a train journey of almost 2,000 km in April, as part of a UN joint programme targeting the development of Eastern Anatolia through cultural tourism.
“I expected it to be very tiring and it was,” said Ismail Pelenkoglu, one of the children who made the journey, and a national coordinator for the child rights committees. “But we learned a lot about our culture. We also made a lot of new friends.”
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Street Cred @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Pasadena Museum of California Art is currently hosting an exhibition dedicated to Los Angeles’ own street art movement. Entitled, “Street Cred: Graffiti Art from Concrete to Canvas”, the display features the work of various artists who represent a broad range of genres within the community, from letter-based formalism to Surrealism. Co-curated by Steve Grody and PMCA’s Exhibition Manager Shirlae Cheng-Lifshin, the exhibit includes several of Grody’s photographs from the crucial years of the graffiti scene and features the work of many prominent street artists including ANGST, DASH 2000, Alex Kizu, Jose Lopez, PUSH, RISK, Jeff Soto, RETNA and more. “Street Cred: Graffiti Art from Concrete to Canvas” will be on display from May 15 to September 4.
Pasadena Museum of California Art
490 East Union Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
United States
Photography: Brandon Shigeta for Hypebeast
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China Allows Dissident Artist’s Wife to Visit Him
BEIJING — The dissident artist Ai Weiwei was allowed a visit from his wife on Sunday, the first time he has been seen or heard from since being detained by authorities 43 days ago and held incommunicado in a secret Beijing-area location, Mr. Ai’s attorney said on Monday.
The attorney and family friend, Liu Xiaoyuan, said he had met on Monday with Ms. Lu and that she said her husband appeared to be in good physical condition. Mr. Ai also asked about the health of his mother and family, he said, but the circumstance of the supervised visit offered no chance to discuss how his captors were treating him or other details of his confinement....
HUSH – TWINS @ New Image Art Gallery
HUSH - TWINS
May 21st - June 18th, 2011
Opening Reception: SATURDAY May 21, 2011, 7 -10pm
New Image Art Gallery
7908 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood
CA 90046
Phone / Fax 323 654 2192
info at newimageartgallery dot com
Having originally trained as a graphic designer and illustrator at Newcastle School of Art and Design, Hush’s art practice has taken him throughout Asia, Europe and the USA, while simultaneously developing his prominence as a contemporary artist. His immersion in a diversity of cultures has informed his work largely recognized for its portrayal of the amaranthine of the female form while infusing cross-cultural influences and variant genres within contemporary art. A distinguishing facet of Hush’s work is the complexity of his technique that combines various street approaches with traditional art practices. Through the use of opposing themes and aesthetics, the artist presents contemporary depictions of traditional portrait and figurative imagery....
