Category: Pranks
The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions, A Book of Fraternal Lodge Prank Devices
The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions is a book of pranking devices by New Yorker cartoonist and freelance illustrator Julia Suits.
Ron English Parody Cereal Boxes Placed on Grocery Store Shelves
Extreme sarcasm activist with an "I Love Orlando Police" sign
Link: Boing Boing
Jay Maisel's building tagged with "Kind of Bloop" cover art
Over a pixelated reworking of the photo, the text, “All Art is Theft.”
Link: Jay Maisel’s building tagged with “Kind of Bloop” cover art – Boing Boing
Afghan artist adopts "Jihadi Gangster" persona to lampoon official corruption
He dresses up like a cop and stops motorists and then gives them bribes, he puts up election posters advertising his Jihadi credentials and asking for the public’s votes, and so on
Link: Afghan artist adopts “Jihadi Gangster” persona to lampoon official corruption – Boing Boing
Yes Men hoax uses Twitter, Facebook to put Big Coal on the defensive
Peabody, which launched a “Coal Cares” website to advertise the campaign, hoped to tackle the stigma associated with asthma by giving away a variety of colorful and hip inhalers to dignify the use of asthma medication.
“For kids who have no choice but to use an inhaler,” the website reads, “Coal Cares lets them inhale with pride.” Above all, the empathetic hearts behind the “Coal Cares” initiative are seeking to make what they have deemed “Asthma-Related Bullying (ARB)” a thing of the past.
Link: Yes Men hoax uses Twitter, Facebook to put Peabody Energy on the defensive | Poynter.
Stickers on the Central Line
BP Imposter Addresses Oil Spill Summit
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On and Off Assignment by Justin Mott: Finally Revealed!!! What's In My Camera Bag
Why now after all these years like Deep Throat have I decided to reveal this information you ask? Well if you must know I narrowly avoided a head on crash returning from an assignment in Burma. Deep Mott got to thinking and I realized any day could be my last. So the hell with it, it’s time to let the cat out of the bag and in turn show you what goes in the bag when the cat isn’t in there
Link: On and Off Assignment by Justin Mott: Finally Revealed!!! What’s In My Camera Bag
via: duckrabbit