It’s a shame the billboards were blank…
Prague’s street art collective EPOS 257 recently converted some blank billboards into abstract art with the help of a few paintball guns. They write:
Shooting into the white surface of vacant billboards with a paintball gun – blank canvasses in an urban environment, a gesture expressing [...]
November 26, 2008 – 10:58 am
As you probably heard, on November 12th a group of artists and activists unveiled a “Special Edition” of the New York Times dated “July 4th, 2009″ and outlining the end of the war in iraq, a national tax base for schools, and free public universities, among other things. In addition to the print paper, [...]
November 14, 2008 – 11:00 pm
This is why we’ve been a bit quiet lately.
Embedded video from CNN Video
New York Times Special Edition Video News Release – Nov. 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo.
April 10, 2008 – 11:48 pm
I’ll be giving a short talk for part of Gelf Magazine’s Non-Motivational Speaker series. If you haven’t seen Abel Raises Cain, it’s great. And Ron English you’ve probably seen already. From Gelf’s site:
Culture jammers and pranksters will be this month’s topic. Featured speakers are Alan Abel, perhaps the most infamous prankster in American prank [...]
December 13, 2007 – 5:38 pm
Emily’s been working on a piece about Facebook’s creepy Beacon software (you probably heard about it in the news). But in the midst of the controversy Facebook has taken the marketing of social networking profiles to a whole new low with facebookbusinesssolutions.com. Did they think we wouldn’t notice?
It starts with Facebook Surf and [...]
December 13, 2007 – 9:16 am
via Joey Skaggs’ The Art of the Prank:
Posted by harshavardhan on Thought Beans Blog, November 2, 2007:
The Fake CEO blogs, have become a big buzz in the blogosphere. Amongst the fake blogs, the Fake Steve blog is most popular.
It is written by Daniel Lyons, a senior Editor at Forbes Magazine. It took almost 14 months [...]
December 11, 2007 – 9:14 am
I’m behind on my editing duties after returning from Barcelona. There will be posts coming soon, but here’s something to hold you over…
thanks to Julia Schwadron for sending this my way.
February 28, 2007 – 2:25 pm
With a half-inch sticker you can do so much. Thanks to the anonymous author of this project that popped up on the internet in the past few days.