iPhone App Art on New Yorker Magazine

These days, all you need to create magazine cover-worthy artwork is an iPhone and Steve Sprang's $4.99 Brushes app. Oh, and insane talent.
Those were the ingredients that produced this week's dazzling New Yorker cover, a traditional-looking blurred street scene that looks like an authentic brush-and-canvas painting.
In reality, artist Jorge Colombo finger-painted the image while standing outside Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Times Square.
more HERE

Parody v. Reality

If you found last week's real cover of The New Yorker magazine offensive because of the way it depicted Barack and Michelle Obama, then you may also take issue with this fake cover of Vanity Fair.
The portrait on the wall appears to be President Bush. The document burning in the fireplace is the Constitution. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who turns 72 soon, is using a walker and has a bandage on his head (presumably a reference to his battles against skin cancer). His wife Cindy, who overcame an addiction to painkillers, is holding pill bottles.
USA Today article is HERE

...thing is, this one is less of a parody, isn't it?

1st Amendment, PEOPLE...CHECK IT OUT...

Well, it's 3pm PDT and since our 9am PDT posting I can no longer count the number of calls and emails regarding the "New Yorker" Cover art* on my hands. Even family members have screamed "HOW COULD THEY DO THAT"???

My ANSWER: LENNY "FUCKING" BRUCE

THIS IS AMERICA PEOPLE, LAND OF THE FREE, HOME OF THE BRAVE...blah blah blah...

THIS is the one place on the planet YOU CAN DO SATIRE...that's why we like it HERE...

*they fucked up

Shock, Awe & Dismay

The New Yorker magazine hits the news stands today with a shocking cover -- a caricature of Barack and Michelle Obama depicting the presidential candidate in a turban, fist-bumping his wife who has a machine gun slung over her shoulder, while the American flag burns in the fireplace. The cover is shocking in that it depicts the Obamas in bizarre caricatured images and associations which reflect the very stereotypes with which the conservatives, particularly Fox News, have been trying to frame both the Obamas. Thus, instead of satire, the cover becomes a political poster for conservatives to reinforce their messages.
more HERE