- Oh
Brooklyn, will your quest to be cooler than and better than never end? Your
hipster world is always looking for the next thing to ironically like before
anyone else and the latest example of that phenomenon is taking place in the
skies over the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A
unique light show that some of equated to fireflies descending upon Brooklyn is
illuminating the New York City night. It’s a performance called "Fly By
Night” and it is being presented by the nonprofit group Creative Time in
conjunction with Red Hook-based artist Duke Riley. Riley spent 10 months
putting the show together on a ship, where he and his trained pigeons equipped
with LED lights are in the midst of a six-night run. Riley used a bamboo pole
and a plastic bag to train the the pigeons to take flight and land on the
vessel. "They recognize who the person is that takes care of them, and
they know that it's you standing there with her over the garbage bag on top of
it and just know that it's their time to fly and their time to perform,"
Riley said. Yes, pigeons generally menace people by crapping all over everything
in their immediate vicinity and while some train them to race or deliver
messages, using them as flying LED lights is a new idea. According to Riley,
pigeons are a central focus of his art. "I lived in a pigeon coop for four years
in Providence, Rhode Island, where I spent the entire time studying
pigeons," he said. He picked the Navy Yard for the project because it once
was home to nation's largest military pigeon coop, where the birds were trained
to deliver messages before radio existed. The show was fully booked for its
six-night run and tickets were free, so good luck finding a seat……..
- Golf
clubs are literally the most important tools in professional golfer’s bag, the
implements with which he or she makes a living. Keeping those clubs in good
working order definitely matters if a golfer wants to make the cut and play on
the weekend in tournaments, which is the route to getting paid. PGA Tour player
Zac Blair momentarily forgot that lesson - and may forget a lot of things in
the near future do to potential memory loss on account of head trauma - after hitting
himself in the head with his putter and damaging it, in the process earning a
disqualification from the Wells Fargo Championship for using a non-conforming
club. Blair bludgeoned himself in the head with his club after missing a putt
on the fifth green at Quail Hollow Golf Club and in a fatal mistake, proceeded
to use the club to putt out. It was only after completing the hole that he noticed
that the putter was bent and approached a rules official on the sixth tee. When
Blair explained the situation, the rules official disqualified him under Rule
4-3b because he holed out with the non-conforming club. Had he noticed the
damaged putter before using it, he could have tapped in with a wedge and played
the rest of the round without a putter. Under the Rules of Golf, a player may
replace a damaged club during a round but not if the damage was done in anger. Even
if he hadn't been disqualified, Blair likely would have missed the 36-hole cut
because he was 4 over par at the time. “I let my emotions get the best of me
today,” Blair wrote on Twitter, later making light of the situation by posting
a video of now-Champions Tour player Woody Austin, who once famously bent a
putter in anger by hitting himself in the head. Next time, drop a squeezable
stress ball into your bag or do a little on-course yoga to calm down, Z………
- There’s
little point to it, but props to North Korean despot Kim Jong-Un for his shiny
new title of dictatorial excess. North Korea's ruling party is preparing to
bestow a new title on the diminutive, cherubic madman in a surefire sign that
the third heir to North Korea's dynasty of Kim’s is still in control despite
his country's deepening international isolation over his continued push to
develop more and better nuclear weapons. State media, i.e. the government’s
mouthpiece, in the Asian nation cited the agenda for an upcoming congress,
which included reviewing the works of
the party's Central Committee and Central Audit Commission, revising party
rules, electing Kim to the top party post and electing a new central leadership
for the party. With his new job title, Kim would be on a level equivalent to
his late father and grandfather, who held the title of general secretary of the
Workers' Party. Not much would likely change in the repressive, isolated nature
of daily life in the country, where Kim is already head of the party, but with
the title of first secretary. The Congress opened Friday with the dictator
deliver a brief speech that singled out North Korea's advances in developing
nuclear weapons and rockets capable of putting satellites into orbit. He cited
those developments as important examples of the country's progress in the face
of international criticism and tough sanctions that threaten to further stifle
its struggling economy, suggesting that being able to blow South Korea off the map
is more important than feeding his people or keeping his country from
regressing into the dark ages……..
- Keep
going, Ben Affleck, and you might just find yourself as the emperor of the
Marvel universe. Affleck, who received so-so reviews for the largely panned “Batman V. Superman: Dawn of
Justice” in his first foray as the Caped Crusader, was already signed to star in the upcoming “Justice League: Part One” movie, but like the new employee whose
boss gets fired soon after he comes on board, Affleck has been promoted to
executive producer for the project. Most believe Warner Bros. made the move in
order to give Affleck, who will play Batman, more control over the script and
post-production and for a guy with two Oscars - one for his work with Matt
Damon on the screenplay for “Good Will
Hunting, and another more recently for Argo,” which he produced, directed and starred in - maybe that’s
a good thing. Despite all of the critical hate, “Batman v. Superman” has taken
in $864 million at the worldwide box
office. Director Zack Snyder is helming “Justice League,” which began principal
photography in April, has a star-studded cast including Henry Cavill, Gal
Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Amy Adams, Amber Heard, Jeremy
Irons, JK Simmons and Willem Dafoe. It's due
for release out next November, 2017 with its second part scheduled for June
2019. Affleck is also working on a
stand-alone Batman film, in
which he is expected to star and direct, and will appear again as Batman first
though in this August's “Suicide Squad.”
Clearly, the bat has taken over his career and is paying extremely well……….
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