-Drew

Hero of the Week goes out to artist / activist Jordan Seiler, hands down. This past Sunday, he organized a small crew in downtown Manhattan. Wiith masks and push-brooms, they began pealing off and wheat-pasting over the abundance of advertisements
that cake every pregnable inch of this city. 

Seiler obviously didn't invent the idea of "Ad Takeovers" (I'm thinking back to a story I once heard of a preacher in the South who was once arrested for taking his congregation out to white-wash over billboards of cigarettes and booze in their town). Pictured above are some like-minded French folks in 1985. Seiler is, however, seemingly leading the way here in NY with his group Public Ad Campaign, whose tagline is "Expanding Curatorial Responsibilities in the City". 

Ahmen!

To re-introduce the concept, this is a new segment where I write about people who jump-start my imagination and remind me
how crazy life really is. The older I get, the more necessary it seems to do that, so I'm starting to make a habit of it early.

With no further adieu, Hero of the Week goes to ____________.  The blank space, and ambiguity surrounding
the particulars of this post reflects the ambiguity in its subject's legal standing. The man who has built the machine you see below
is a friend of a friend (these photos have been e-mailed to me from his iPhone). The machine is a particle separator / neutrino generator.
What's a Neutrino? Just one of the fundamental particles that make up the Universe, duh. This man built this thing himself right here in Brooklyn!
(I'll leave the exact coordinates out, again, in the name of that gray area between lawful and unlawful where so many life-affirming things seem to reside.
Plus, would you really want to know you were sleeping right above this thing?). 

Flipping the 'On' switch will feed over 10,000 volts into the plasma cloud inside the vacuum chamber.
DIY neutrino machine!? You're my hero!