Yet more proof (as if any were needed) that one can be highly educated and also a complete idiot:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2015/ ... story.htmlFormer MIT Professor Charged in NYC Bank Robbery
The things people (allegedly) do for art.
Joseph Gibbons, a filmmaker and former MIT art professor, has been charged with robbery after he allegedly filmed himself robbing a Capital One bank branch in New York City on December 31.[he needn't have gone to the trouble of filming; banks are more than happy to provide the camera work for this sort of artistic expression]
The New York Post reports that Gibbons, 61, presented a note to the teller at the bank’s Bowery Street branch and allegedly made off with about $1,000 in cash, all while holding a camcorder. Police arrested him on January 8.
As he awaited arraignment, Gibbons told a cellmate that he had been conducting research for a film, according to the Post. The “dazzled” cellmate told the paper: “It’s not a crime; it’s artwork.”
Gibbons is known for gaining inspiration from unconventional sources. In an interview with the art journal Big Red & Shiny, he discussed “the romantic idea of the artist getting involved in these kinds of activities as a kind of research.”
“These kinds of activities” included drug addiction and voyeurism. He told the journal:
“I just worried if I had enough problems within me that I could exploit. [seems like that was an unnecessary concern]So when I ran of my own—I started creating them—I made one or two films based on drug addiction. Before that it was voyeurism; I sort of discovered and cultivated a voyeurism in myself, so it started out being a theoretical film but it turned into a film exploring my own perversions.”
Gibbons’s MIT profile says his work is “characterized by a time-honored approach—that of the artist’s use of his own life as source material, a laboratory for self-observation and experimentation.”
After his stint at MIT ended in 2010, Gibbons began working as a video editor and consultant at Fugitive Productions,[my, how appropriate]according to his LinkedIn profile.
The Boston Herald reports that Gibbons pleaded not guilty to the charge at his arraignment Friday and was ordered held on $50,000 cash bail. He’ll be back in a New York City court for a pretrial hearing on April 14.
The Herald also reports that Gibbons is wanted in Providence for a similar robbery at a Citizens Bank in November. According to the Providence Journal, a “tall, thin white man who appeared to be in his early 50s” made off with $3,000 and told the teller “thank you, this is for the church.”
I liked this follow up comment:
I can't wait for his next movie.....He plays an inmate at Attica.
