Before you draw any immediate conclusions from the photo above, keep in mind the following: there is no such thing as the Chupacabra (except in the Puerto Rican town of Canóvanas on the night of a full moon) and the Montauk Monster is probably more of a Resort Raccoon. So what is this beast that washed up on Long Beach yesterday? A spokesman for Dads Who Use Monster Folklore For Efficient Parenting tells us that it's probably one of his brethren furthering the cause. "This is some high quality work," the flack says, "Look at how its face is slightly obscured but its teeth are bared. And all the realistic entrail-foam!"
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More creatures have, literally, popped up around town! Joshua Allen Harris has been making the inflatable street art and surprising passerby with it -- most recently there was a subway Loch Ness monster on 21st Street...and the latest look more like aliens. That's one creative way to recycle your plastic bags...
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Monster Found On Long Beach Makes Parenting Easier
Little Monster Style: Have Unicorn Horn, Will See Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga took over Central Park yesterday for her Good Morning America performance. The music star ziplined onto the stage, and when GMA host Robin Roberts said, "You like to make an entrance, don't you!!" Gaga responded, "I live halfway between reality and theatrics at all times." As do many of her fans! Check out these photographs of Gaga's Little Monsters—skimpy outfits worked out well in the warm weather, as did unicorn horns in the pastoral setting of Central Park.
Lady Gaga Fans Storming NYC, Next Stop: Union Square
Lady Gaga will be at Best Buy in Union Square on Monday night, so if you aren't one of her "monsters" then you may want to avoid the area completely until Tuesday. Currently her army of followers are camped outside of Rockefeller Center attempting to get stand-by tickets to SNL, which she'll be performing on tomorrow night. The fans have been camped out since Tuesday (related: it has been raining since Tuesday!), and at one point Gaga sent over pizzas to keep them nourished. One hopeful gal told the Daily News, "We are SNL fans and Lady Gaga is our idol. This is the perfect episode." What, no props for Justin Timberlake?
Your Audio & Visual Guide To Lady Gaga's MSG Show Last Night
Last night—after walking around sans pants all day—Lady Gaga took the stage at MSG for one of her hometown shows (she's there again tonight) which will air on HBO in May. Dan Meade (who took some photographs around MSG of her fans monsters, says, it "all felt like a cross between Harajuku and the Village Halloween Parade. Then, when I realized that we were standing there, cameras poised, waiting for get The Shot of people in Fame Monster outfits... it all started to get way too meta. And Weird. And a little disturbing."
Good Morning With Lady Gaga (For Some)
Bright n' early this morning, almost too early for such a spectacle, Lady Gaga's monster masses converged on Rockefeller Plaza for a free show as part of the Today show's concert series. If you missed it, or even if you were there and somehow survived the madness (at least two fans were taken away by EMS), here's a little audio/visual recap!
Lady Gaga Arrives, Fan Punched By Scalper
Lady Gaga has officially taken over her home town, setting up shop Wednesday night to play four shows at Radio City Music Hall. So far there have been reports of everyone from P. Diddy to Donald Trump to Barbara Walters (Lady Wawa?) in the crowd amongst the performer's beloved monsters. And people are really going crazy over these shows — laying down serious cash for tickets, taking off their pants, belting out their best ear-piercing screams as the Fame Monster arrives at shows, and even donning orbital headresses in homage. But it's not all fun and glitter, today the NY Press reports back about one fan's beatdown over tickets.
Monsters Popping Up in Brooklyn
Artist Kylin O'Brien is painting giant monsters around town for the NYC public school kids in a collaborative effort titled The Monster Project. "Still in its early stages, the monster project is launching its first huge public creatures at the 12th Annual Art Under the Bridge Festival" this weekend. Two of the monsters in the DUMBO area are pictured above, and before you start grading--keep in mind that the creatures are, at heart, creations of kids.
These creatures are elements of children's imaginations and reflections of what they find both powerful and frightening. As neighborhood murals, they are transformed into local guardians. Kylin's work is to refine the children's drawings while being true to their vision and energy. The kids' work is already fine and poignant.The project hopes to expand and bring more kids' monsters out from under the bed and on to neighborhood walls over the next year.
More Inflatable Creatures Around Town
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