<![CDATA[Gawker: missing]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: missing]]> http://gawker.com/tag/missing http://gawker.com/tag/missing <![CDATA[Help Find This Missing Woman]]> You might have seen this plea and this message on many, many webpages this weekend. 23-year-old school teacher Hannah E. Upp went missing from her Harlem apartment on Friday and police are looking for anything that might lead them to her. Click through for a larger photo. If you have seen her or heard anything about her, please call Det. Perez at the 30th Precinct, at 212-690-8842, or at 212-690-8843. Someone must have seen or heard something. You do not have to give your name to give your information. Please step up and tell what you know. This is actually important. And anyone using this thread to make a certain old complaint about the media and missing people, you'll get banned instantly.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5046240&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Chinese Communists Detain New York Graffiti Artist! (?)]]> A hipster artist has just become the first American detained by Chinese authorities for something he did at the Beijing Olympics. (Is this seriously the first? We would be very happy to be wrong about everything about this.) Tennessee native James Powderly (no relation to Dash Snow) ("heh") was last seen leaving New York—where his graffiti-influenced experimental art collective had a Moma show earlier this year—in this Flickr photo. (More recognizable photo of him after the jump.) Powderly, who is known for using lasers to project his graffiti tag onto buildings, was apparently detained early this morning Beijing time while attempting to debut a work of protest art, news that comes (really!) via a Twitter message somehow received by Students For a Free Tibet. It is not Powderly's first brush with Red Chinese authorities:


Powderly’s direct experience with censorship by Chinese authorities furthered his commitment to highlighting the Tibetan cause during the Beijing Games, in partnership with the efforts of Students for a Free Tibet. Powderly and other members of the Graffiti Research Lab were dis-invited from Synthetic Times, a new media art exhibition at Beijing’s National Media Art Museum of China, due to their uncompromising stance on freedom of expression.

Anyway, we're pretty sure this doesn't indicate any sort of crackdown, considering the Beijing Olympics has thus far been the the largest ever gathering of professional free speechifyers, and also the fact that graffiti artists are not exactly big into following laws, but tips and leads are always welcome.

Graffiti Research Lab
Graffiti 2.0: Gone By Morning [Time]
Spray Paint Is So 20th Century [NYT]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5038968&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Veteran computer scientist James Gray missing in ocean]]> vert.gray.ap.jpgNICK DOUGLAS — The Coast Guard searched yesterday for Turing Award winner James Gray, who was last heard from on Sunday when he piloted his yacht out of San Francisco (in good weather) to scatter his mother's ashes. At Microsoft, Gray (Berkeley's first computer science PhD recipient) developed technologies that led to ATMs and online shopping; his research also made mapping programs like Google Earth possible.

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