Stopped by the MoMA today, figuring it would be a good day to see the Richard Serra sculptures outside (although it’s the three titanic pieces inside that turned out to be truly mindblowing). Among the happy surprises there (including the automatic update show with a piece by our friend Cory) was a huge installation of drawings, “WHAT HAPPENED TO US?” by Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi, covering one side of the four story atrium.

The drawings, wry commentary on contemporary society and current events, are a version of something Perjovschi’s done in museums, newspapers and journals all over Europe since the 90s, and must have been a blast to watch him draw. While we were there, there were dozens of people doing the same thing we were doing, looking up and reading the wall and laughing and pointing out drawing after drawing to their companions. A free accompanying newspaper you can pick up at the show features pen and ink versions of many of the drawings (like the ones above this paragraph) in a tabloid format (PDF download).

Here’s a video of him drawing the exhibit, and there’s a Part 2 up on YouTube as well.

[Nick Douglas mentioned in the comments that this is “like a more obvious version of ‘Indexed,’” which was definitely a site I was thinking about at the show.]

A funny thing happened the other day. Our friends at Talking Points Media, who are working with us on the soon to be launched Veracifier, posted a clip from a recent Bush Rose Garden speech on YouTube in order to support a blog post on TPMCafe. They were trying to make a specific point, that Bush seems to be continually asserting that public opinion is with him, and had clipped the part of the video they needed off C-Span with the audio of Bush’s lines.

But then, a few readers started noticing the long shot of Cheney standing dejectedly in the shrubs, absurdly far from the podium. Soon after, the video was everywhere. Picked up by The Huffington Post, Wonkette, even AOL News, TPM had accidentally unleashed a political video nearly as funny and odd as the MC Rove clip of the week before (OK, nothing’s that funny). The average TPM video gets between 1,000 and 10,000 views. This one, within three days, had gotten almost 250,000 views.

I hadn’t seen this until now, but just a day later, someone had already set the video to music: specifically, Radiohead’s “Creep,” to hilarious effect. It’s amazing how a video that seasoned eyes like Josh Marshall and Rachel Sklar missed the absurdity of the first time around had this much potential — but that’s the beauty of the Internet. Get enough eyeballs on something, and there’s a good chance that synapse will fire for the right person. And they’ll do something about it.

And without a doubt, that cameraperson who shot the long zoom deserves a raise.