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Billboard Hijacking @ Vandalog

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METHYLENEDIOXPYROVALERONE: THE DRUG THAT NEVER LETS GO
“Bath salts” are nothing like the epsom salts often added to bathwater; it’s just the most common code name given to a specific type of synthetic drugs made in underground labs and marketed as household items. The drugs have been camouflaged as plant food, stain remover, toilet bowl cleaner and hookah cleaner. They’ve been sold online and in “head shops,” businesses that sell drug paraphernalia. The boxes usually contain a foil wrap or plastic bag of powder, though sometimes they take the form of pills or capsules. The color of the powder ranges from white to yellow to brown, the price from $30 to $50. And nearly every box has a label that says “not for human consumption.”
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Early on, doctors began noticing something else that was strange. Compared with other drugs, bath salts didn’t follow a normal dose-response pattern. With cocaine or methamphetamine, the drug entered the bloodstream, and, within hours, began to wear off. Not so for bath salts.

“Some patients were in the hospital for 5 days, 10 days, 14 days,” Ryan said. “In some cases, they were under heavy sedation. As you try to taper off the sedation, the paranoia came back and the delusions.”
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Hunter S. Thompson spray painted onto a police car.
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NYC Subway 80s by Olivier Nade on Flickr.
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LETIZIA BATTAGLIA: “The Sicilian Mafia” (2000)
When battaglia started her photographic work, people regarded the Mafia as a purely criminal and local problem. Some even romanticized it. Anti-Mafia demonstrations in the 1970s were sparsely attended with most citizens closing their shutters in fear. But attitudes changed in the course of Battaglia’s career, in part because of deadly changes within the Mafia itself. In 1974, (the year Battaglia became photo director of L’Ora) there were only eight deaths by heroin overdose in all of Italy, but by the early 1990s there were more than 1,000 a year. The Sicilian Mafia, along with becoming the chief conduit of heroin between Asia and the United States, had decided to develop its own domestic market as well, creating an epidemic with a hard-core addict population of more than 200,000 in less than a decade. The drug trade attracted a public outcry, but as police and prosecutors tried to crack down on it they began to be killed with astonishing regularity. Between 1978 and 1992, the Sicilian Mafia murdered virtually every public official who interfered with its business—police officers, judges, prosecutors, mayors, members of parliament, the head of the chief governing party, the head of the chief opposition party, the general in charge of the military police and even the governor of Sicily.

Battaglia documented virtually all of these dismal events. The powerful images she created gave faces and corporeal reality to and helped awaken public awareness of a phenomenon that was tragically ignored for decades to the detriment of Sicily and Italy as a whole. The stories that accompanied those pictures have yellowed and faded, but her photographs have remained remarkably fresh and powerful.
Image: The triple murder of a prostitute and her clients, Palermo, 1982 (Via)

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Everybody Is Full Of Shit by Mel Bochner

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HATE MAIL FROM MR. BINGO»
Got hate mail? No? Come on - everyone LOVES hate mail, especially if
they come in such artful form as these hate mail as drawn by London-based
artist Mr. Bingo* (Facebook).The story goes like this: one day, a drunken Mr. Bingo tweeted that he’d
send an offensive postcard to the first person who replied. Someone did,
and Mr. Bingo sent his very first hate mail to a complete stranger named
Jonathan Hopkins. It said, “F*ck you Jonathan, f*ck you and f*ck
your sh*t legs.” Needless to say, it was a hit.Mr. Bingo’s hate mail became so popular that he opened a service. For
a fee, you could send your enemy, loved ones, or even yourself, an expletive-laden
and obscene postcard. So far, Mr. Bingo has completed 400 pieces, but
(bad news!) is so swamped with work that the Hate Mail service is only
open periodically (Follow his Twitter account @Mr_Bingo
if you want updates on availability).

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USING SILK ROAD »
“Gwern’s “Using Silk Road” is a riveting, fantastically detailed account of the theory and practice of Silk Road, a Tor-anonymized drugs-and-other-stuff marketplace where transactions are generally conducted with BitCoins. Gwern explains in clear language how the service solves many of the collective action problems inherent to running illicit marketplaces without exposing the buyers and sellers to legal repercussions and simultaneously minimizing ripoffs from either side. It’s a tale of remix-servers, escrows, economics, and rational risk calculus — and dope.”
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Mark Drew’s latest art show Deez Nuts mashes up Peanuts comic strip with 90’s rap lyrics.

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Authentic Wm. Gibson - Synopses for William Gibson novels that are definitely 100% real, but only in a timeline with greater authenticity than this one.

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MORTSAFES

Mortsafes were contraptions designed to protect graves from disturbance. The necessity for medical students to learn anatomy by attending dissections of human subjects was frustrated by the limited allowance of dead bodies - the corpses of executed criminals - granted by the government. As such, there had been body-snatching close to the schools of anatomy in Scotland since the early 18th century.
Many people were determined to protect the graves of newly deceased friends and relatives. The rich could afford heavy table tombstones, vaults, mausolea and iron cages around graves. The poor began to place flowers and pebbles on graves to detect disturbances and dig heather and branches into the soil to make disinterment more difficult. Large stones, often coffin-shaped, sometimes the gift of a wealthy man to the parish, were placed over new graves. Friends and relatives took turns or hired men to watch graves through the hours of darkness. Watching societies were often formed in towns, one in Glasgow having 2,000 members. But graves were still violated.
The mortsafe was invented in about 1816. These were iron or iron-and-stone devices of great weight, in many different designs. Often they were complex heavy iron contraptions of rods and plates, padlocked together - examples have been found close to all Scottish medical schools. A plate was placed over the coffin and rods with heads were pushed through holes in it. These rods were kept in place by locking a second plate over the first to form extremely heavy protection. It would be removed by two people with keys. They were placed over the coffins for about six weeks, then removed for further use when the body inside was sufficiently decayed.
[There are some fantastic examples of these still intact at Glasgow Necropolis]
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