LOL: Hacked train station display

Someone apparently hacked into a train station display to create a special Christmas message.

The display is similar to the iPhone assistant Siri. You punch a sentence into the machine and it talks like a robot to commuters, telling them with monotonal detachment that the next train is late.

This message has lots of fa la la la las. A bit fresh.

Thanks to South/South for contacting me about this video (which they recorded). It's gone a bit viral in only one week.

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BRISTOL: Banksy artwork destroyed

(Source)

The work of popular street artist Banksy has been attacked in a brazen act of vandalism and we must find who did it and 120 Days of Sodom them.

According to the Internet, Team Robbo and/or BSK were responsible for the attack on the four-year-old painting at Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol.

Here is the original:

Did Banksy deserve this attack? Does a living graffiti legend deserve critical immunity because he creates mass consumer irony?

The answer is [insert coin]

Slug graffiti on railway track

(Near Redfern Station, Sydney. Image editing by MK.)

Slug is an asshole. Of all the places he could bomb it had to be in the middle of the railway.

I see this dirty dog tag every morning as I write about the freaks who use CityRail.

But the biggest freak has to be that fucking dog.

Did you enjoy it, Slug, running across the tracks at around 3am, puffs of steam climbing from your mouth as you ducked under the fence? Was the steel cold on your skin? Was your heart pounding as an Ironlak can slipped in your sweaty palm?

I tried shooting this piece with an iPhone. I tried three days in a row, but the shutter was just too slow.

So I took an SLR and got this shot. Acid Midget is a street art blog 'usually' made with an iPhone.

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a westfield advertisment

(Westfield, Penrith)

Westfield CEO: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for joining me in celebrating another year in Westfield's history.

We are proud of what this shopping centre chain has done for the world. It has provided a place for parents to raise their children and spend countless weekends in our airconditioned cathedrals, in holy supplication to the great spirit of consumerism.

Within these walls we learn the importance of passivity to B2C marketing, overt product placement and brand leveraging. We also come into holy commune with the great currency of our epoch: credit. Being able to spend what isn't even ours is a gift from heaven, we should all be thankful.

Our children should also be thankful. To be raised on prime commercial real estate, charged to retailers at premium rates (ching-ching), within the highest state of suburban artifice accessible to the public is something the ancients would smile upon.

These children use their time constructively here. They do not “loiter” as the media claim. They do not “vandalise” selectively placed advertisements of photoshopped female models with few career prospects or sexual hangups. These young angels spend their hours/lives inside these emotional glasshouses learning the intricacies of the retail economy, buzz marketing and product cycles. They are our future.

Join me in congratulating them.

(unanimous applause ensues).