Jail cell Q: “What are you in for?” A: “I built a monster in Brooklyn.”

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pOf all the possible reasons a pair of Brits visiting NYC could get arrested, illegally building a huge, mythical wooden bird-monster overlooking a Brooklyn street has got to be the most interesting./p

pUK-based artists operating under the noms de guerre Jimmy Bumble and Leonard White built the Brooklyn Griffin, a nine-foot sculpture made from shipping pallets and skateboards, atop an industrial building on Brooklyn’s Billyburg-Bushwick border (without permission); the infuriated building manager subsequently had the pair arrested and the sculpture smashed to bits./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/jail_cell_q_what_are_you_in_for_a_i_built_a_monster_in_brooklyn_17321.asp”(more…)/a
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