This might be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. I don't get it. Even if it's for people on the go... it's not saving you any time! Okay, so you don't have to walk that 15 extra feet to the counter... the person getting your food still does, so now you're at the mercy of their slow asses.

I don't know... maybe Mickey D's is having trouble competing with the new trends in fast food - how can you really top the Whopper Bar or the KFC Double Down, after all. A walk-through window seems like such an odd choice though. What's the purpose? To save you 15 extra steps? I mean, I used to live right near there, so I can say for a fact that this is not the cleanest McDonald's establishment, but still... it's not so bad that you need to stand outside at a window to get your food.

And apparently, people have actually been lining up outside for this thing. The counter is like... 15 steps away! GO INSIDE!

In my opinion, however, there's a big difference between contributing to an existing piece, adding to it creatively, or even covering it (creatively) to make way for a new thought or idea, and obnoxiously spraying a bland tag over the entire thing.

People hate Shepard Fairey. They think he's a sell out, they think he's a plagarist, they think he's a hack. Whatever they think, they hate him for it and they're downright giddy when his stuff gets bombed. Sometime in the early morning hours of Sunday, May 15th, Fairey's These Parties Disgust Me mural, which was pasted up over a faux wall on Houston Street at the end of last month, was tagged.

It's not the first time someone has taken aim at the piece - before the pasting was even complete,  it had been tagged. A brick was tossed through it and a portion of it was kicked in before the artist's Mayday show opened on May 1st. With Fairey hoping to keep the mural relatively in tact until the show opening, the mural was repaired and cleaned soon after each incident, however, with the month almost over and the show's run coming to an end, the wall is now fair game to taggers and Shep haters alike.

I know why people don't like Shepard Fairey, but I don't really understand it, or the need to purposefully destroy his work. He's a commercial artist now, yes. Absolutely. He makes money, he sells work, and yes, his work is, more often than not, derivative of other people's or a reinterpreation of a photograph. I don't really see it as plagiarism, though. Plagiary, to me, would be him taking someone else's work outright, unaltered, pasting it up and calling it his own - that's really not what this guy does.

Fairey's work has a very definitive style to it. It's a combination of formats and looks and often speaks to an idea that the original work was not intended for. He's not tearing pages out of books and throwing them up on walls, he's creating something new from something existing. All art comes from somewhere or something else. How we see it is, of course, extremely subjective. For example: To me, all tags look generally the same. Bubble letters or graffiti scrawl. Thousands of tags and maybe.... 3-4 styles of actual tag. One could really make the argument that taggers are just copying each other over and over again and just swapping out names. It's not very artistic. It's nothing new or interesting. It doesn't take much thought.

The Mayday mural was a nice piece. Fairey himself said that he hoped it would remain there for some time and become a collaborative work, which could have been really cool. Throwing a huge, nasty looking tag over it, though... I just don't see the point, the artistry, or the statement in that. I could ramble about this for a long time, and I won't even get into what happened to the four NYC Banksy's, but my main point is mostly that it sucks to see something destroyed out of spite. Let it go, people.

If you're into it, you've probably already heard, but anonymous and notorious street artist, Banksy, has finally landed in New York City. At least four new pieces have gone up in the past day or two, (3 in Manhattan and at least one in DUMBO). The one seen above is on Cedar St. at Trinity Place down in the Financial District. By the time I reached it, someone had already stickered a piece of it. Apparently it's been further vandalized over night, with someone scribbling white all over the figure. (Bastards.)

I haven't heard anything about the piece in DUMBO being hit, which is nice to know as it's pretty awesome. (See below.)

Other sightings have been reported in Chinatown and Soho. Happy hunting, fans!

*Update*: Spoke too soon re: the DUMBO Banksy. They've all been bombed. More on that soon.

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

With the anticipation of his new album Relapse 2 Recovery ( June 22 ), Eminem releases a new Freestyle track called Despicable [Over + Beamer, Benz, or Bentley].

CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF. (at HipHopDX.com)

Finally the Eminem we know and love...  FAST, HARD, and ANGRY

Eminem is showing everyone that he still is one of the best rappers to ever grace this earth.

Also check out his first single  "Not Afraid" hitting the waves this FRIDAY. http://twitter.com/eminem

Not everyone is as fortunate, as I,  to own a kegerator in their home. ( WOW, that was very cocky of me. Oh well.)

Don't cry over stale beer anymore my friends. Coors and Miller are releasing an at home keg box.

5.7 litters of golden cheap ass beer. (That's roughly 11 pints)  Hey, I'm not hating. I drink Miller light but... only if I have to.

So pucker up your lips, rip off the side, pull down the tap handle,  and get started on your own make shift kegerator. This thing is probably dirt cheap and can satisfy a small gathering  just right. Unless you're my friends, then you would probably need like 5 of those. Damn alcoholics.

Sick New Feature From Adobe Photoshop CS5

Seems like just yesterday I was watching the Online Announcement Event for Adobe's CS4 Creative Suite. ( What a site. A grown man screaming like a little girl in front of his computer in the middle of work.)

Well the Cs5 release is just around the corner and I just saw a video preview on one of their new features called Content Aware Fill. This tool makes taking out unwanted crap from images as easy as picking your nose. Make a selection around the shitty and wallah, PRETTY!

Check out the video, I guarantee you'll wet yourself .

Well guess what! The wait (and the lives of many) is almost over! The KFC Double Down is coming soon to a chicken spot near you! They've even created a special countdown website so you can wait and watch and salivate until the day arrives and you can run to the local KFC and cram one of these bad boys down your throat.

Even with the bacon and cheese, it somehow manages to have fewer calories than the large size Popcorn Chicken, which is kind of impressive.

Today is, apparently, a friend food and bacon day here at Word Vomit. Enjoy!

Why wait until your kids have teeth? Stop pumping that breast milk. Forget that pricey Gerber crap. Give your kids the delightful, smokey taste of crispy, yummy bacon with bacon flavored formula!

Remember, the breast may be best, but bacon is awesome.

Sadly, it seems that the FDA has declined approval, but I'm sure that's nothing a strong letter writing campaign can't fix!

ERICK ARC ELLIOTT- PLANE

One of my students happened to release a new video last night.

The video is great!! Awesome camera work ( Shot with no budget on a Cannon 7D ), great beat, even better rhymes .

Check it out.