Category: Pranks

  • Art market anarchy at Paris Photo 2009 — free photos! – lens culture

    Link: A surprise act of art market anarchy took place just outside the entrance to the exclusive gala VIP opening night at Paris Photo 2009 last week.

  • 4chan prank means Justin Bieber must tour North Korea – Boing Boing

    Link: The contest, which ends at 1800 on 7 July, saw North Korea move from 24th to 1st place in less than two days, several thousand votes ahead of Israel.

  • Make Some Mischief Today!

    Make Some Mischief Today!

    David Shrigley and Jan von Holleben: Make Some Mischief Today! – LENSCRATCH Happy April Fool’s Day….I think we are taking ourselves too seriously these days…and I think a little irreverant mischief might be just what is needed in our depressed economy and changing times…ALWAYS love the work of David Shrigley and Jan von Holleben, and…

  • Billboard Uses Tire Screeching Sounds to Photograph Terrified Jaywalkers

    Billboard Uses Tire Screeching Sounds to Photograph Terrified Jaywalkers

    Billboard Uses Tire Screeching Sounds to Photograph Terrified Jaywalkers An unusual billboard was recently set up at a crosswalk in France to promote pedestrian safety. Whenever a pedestrian was detected crossing while the “red via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/05/26/billboard-uses-tire-screeching-sounds-photograph-terrified-jaywalkers/ An unusual billboard was recently set up at a crosswalk in France to promote pedestrian safety. Whenever a…

  • Pranks and Masculinity on “Who Is America?” and “Nathan for You” | The New Yorker

    Pranks and Masculinity on “Who Is America?” and “Nathan for You” | The New Yorker

    Pranks and Masculinity on “Who Is America?” and “Nathan for You” While Sacha Baron Cohen specializes in macho bullies, Nathan Fielder’s urge to manipulate is submerged in irony. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/06/pranks-and-masculinity-on-who-is-america-and-nathan-for-you While Sacha Baron Cohen specializes in macho bullies, Nathan Fielder’s urge to manipulate is submerged in irony.

  • How a British photojournalist became Plastic Jesus in LA – MyNewsLA.com

    How a British photojournalist became Plastic Jesus in LA – MyNewsLA.com

    How a British photojournalist became Plastic Jesus in LA – MyNewsLA.com Share this article:Plastic Jesus is his name, and “guerrilla” street art is his game. The British-born artist drew international attention this week for his 6-inch-tall wall around Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But before he assumed a via MyNewsLA.com: http://mynewsla.com/hollywood/2016/07/21/how-a-british-photojournalist-became-plastic-jesus-in-la/…

  • Humor: Comedian Joe Lycett on Selling an Imaginary Photo to a Paper

    Humor: Comedian Joe Lycett on Selling an Imaginary Photo to a Paper

    Humor: Comedian Joe Lycett on Selling an Imaginary Photo to a Paper Tabloids will pay money for the strangest photos, as long as those stories grab attention and help them sell more papers. In the 2.5-minute video above, via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/06/22/humor-comedian-joe-lycett-selling-imaginary-photo-paper/ Under rules agreed to long ago, the majority party essentially controls the cameras used…

  • “Hello, I’d like to add you to my professional network on Linkedin” is the new “Christ, what an asshole” / Boing Boing

    “Hello, I’d like to add you to my professional network on Linkedin” is the new “Christ, what an asshole” The phrase joins Cory Arcangel’s “What a misunderstanding” as one that can be used to caption any New Yorker cartoon — a fact discovered by Frank Chimero, the Louis Pasteur … via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/09/22/hello-id-like-to-add-you.html For…

  • Man pranks people upset with Target for no longer segregating toys by gender – Boing Boing

    Man pranks people upset with Target for no longer segregating toys by gender Mike Melgaard pretended to be Target on Facebook and teased people who are threatening to boycott Target for removing gender labeling from toy aisles (e.g., separate labeling for “Building Sets” an… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/08/13/man-pranks-people-upset-with-t.html Mike Melgaard pretended to be Target on…

  • Comedian Jeff Wysaski pranks pet store with hilarious fake signs – Boing Boing

    Comedian Jeff Wysaski pranks pet store with hilarious fake signs Get your Baby Godzilla Lizards, Fieri Hamsters, and Judgemental Tree Frogs right here! via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/06/02/comedian-jeff-wysaski-pranks-p.html Get your Baby Godzilla Lizards, Fieri Hamsters, and Judgemental Tree Frogs right here! LA-based humorist Jeff Wysaski switched out the signs at his local pet store with these…

  • The Age of Drone Vandalism Begins With an Epic NYC Tag | WIRED

    The Age of Drone Vandalism Begins With an Epic NYC Tag | WIRED

    The Age of Drone Vandalism Begins With an Epic NYC Tag In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the age of robotic graffiti was born. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/2015/04/age-drone-vandalism-begins-epic-nyc-tag/ KATSU, a well-known graffiti artist and vandal, used a hacked Phantom drone to paint a giant red scribble across Kendall Jenner’s face on one of New York…

  • Also Shot on iPhone 6

    Also Shot on iPhone 6

    Also Shot on iPhone 6 Link: http://alsoshotoniphone6.tumblr.com/ The continuing human tragedy of Congo is not a statistic. It is a continuing human tragedy. It is fourteen hundred and fifty tragedies every day. It is countless more than that if you include the orphaned, the bereaved, the widowed, and all the ripples of truncated lives that…

  • Photographer Borrows Public Marquee Signs and Installs Phrases to Provoke Passersby

    Photographer Borrows Public Marquee Signs and Installs Phrases to Provoke Passersby

    Photographer Borrows Public Marquee Signs and Installs Phrases to Provoke Passersby Thoughts on Romance on the Road is a project by Rhode Island-based photographer Victoria Crayhon that addresses the effect of media and technology upon human desire. Her roadside text installations read like “public diary entries”—personal and mysterious, via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/04/photographer-borrows-public-marquee-signs-and-installs-phrases-to-provoke-passersby/ Thoughts on Romance…

  • SPONSORED: The Taliban Is A Vibrant And Thriving Political Movement

    Link: SPONSORED: The Taliban Is A Vibrant And Thriving Political Movement | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source 2012 proved to be just another in a succession of landmark years for the Taliban, as the influential Islamic fundamentalist organization continued its awe-inspiring push toward unprecedented expansion.

  • Nurse’s Death Stirs Sharp Criticism of Royal Prank Call

    Nurse’s Death Stirs Sharp Criticism of Royal Prank Call

    Prank Call Seeking Royal Family Secrets Takes Horrifying Turn A nurse tricked by Australian D.J.’s who called posing as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles to get information about Kate Middleton’s pregnancy was found dead on Friday. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/world/europe/nurses-death-stirs-sharp-criticism-of-royal-prank-call.html?partner=rss&emc=rss But the stunt took a horrific and unexpected turn on Friday, when the nurse who answered the…

  • Photoshop Troll

    Photoshop Troll

    Thrilled | Photoshop Troll Dragos thinks his photo WAS bad.. now it’s really really bad. When you ask the internet for help, you’re asking for trouble! via Photoshop Troll: http://www.photoshoptroll.com/ It is true that Australia is a land of contrasts, and for city-dwellers like myself, the middle of the country is as foreign as it…

  • Nimrod Visits the Sartorialist

    Link: Nimrod Visits the Sartorialist | Shorties | VICE VICE’s resident gadfly Nimrod Kamer went to London to mess with the Sartorialist, aka fashion blogger Scott Schuman. For some reason, Scott wasn’t so psyched about the idea of Nimrod following him home after his book signing.

  • Pranksters Hijack Republican Live-Streamed Petition Drive

    Pranksters Hijack Republican Live-Streamed Petition Drive Congressional Republicans on Thursday abruptly halted what was surely the most innovative internet petition drive in history, after too much of the internet discovered it. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) had invited voters to visit via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/printer-petition/all/1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Blog+-+27B+Stroke+6+%28Threat+Level%29%29 The GOP promoted the campaign heavily online with the hashtag…

  • 18 Famous Pictures (Before They Were Cropped)

    18 Famous Pictures (Before They Were Cropped)

    18 Famous Pictures (Before They Were Cropped) When you’re cropping the naked human pyramid out of a picture you’re about to post to Facebook, do you ever wonder if maybe this sort of addition by subtraction has been going on for years? We asked you to show us the context we’ve been missing outside th…

  • The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions, A Book of Fraternal Lodge Prank Devices

    The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions, A Book of Fraternal Lodge Prank Devices

    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. Twenty via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/the-extraordinary-catalog-of-peculiar-inventions-a-book-of-fraternal-lodge-prank-devices/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+laughingsquid+%28Laughing+Squid%29 The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions is a book of pranking devices by New Yorker cartoonist…