Category: Pranks
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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…
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Ron English Parody Cereal Boxes Placed on Grocery Store Shelves
Ron English Parody Cereal Boxes Placed on Grocery Store Shelves Ron English created a series of parody cereal boxes that were covertly placed on shelves at a Ralph’s in Venice, CA. via Ron English photo via Ron via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/ron-english-parody-cereal-boxes-placed-on-grocery-store-shelves/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+laughingsquid+%28Laughing+Squid%29
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Jay Maisel's building tagged with "Kind of Bloop" cover art
Jay Maisel’s building tagged with “Kind of Bloop” cover art According to this Hyperallergic blog post citing an anonymous source, someone in New York City paid someone else to plaster the building where photographer Jay Maisel lives with posters featuring a… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/30/jay-maisels-building.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag Over a pixelated reworking of the photo, the text, “All…
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Afghan artist adopts "Jihadi Gangster" persona to lampoon official corruption
Afghan artist adopts “Jihadi Gangster” persona to lampoon official corruption Aman Mojadidi, a Florida-born Afghan-American, lives in Kabul, where he uses surreal stunts and comedy to highlight corruption and incompetence. He dresses up like a cop and stops motorists and the… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/02/afghani-artist-adopt.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag He dresses up like a cop and stops motorists and…
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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…
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Stickers on the Central Line
Gnat Removal How to kill gnats in the house Link: http://stickersonthecentralline.tumblr.com/ An article in PDN’s June issue explores what freelance photographers can and can’t expect from clients if they are injured. In reporting the article weeks before the tragedies of April 20, writer Jay Mallin could find no newspapers or magazines willing to state their…
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BP Imposter Addresses Oil Spill Summit
How To Use Eye-Fi ‘Direct Mode’ With Your iPhone, iPad Sometime in the middle of the night, Eye-Fi released both the “Direct Mode” software update for its Wi-Fi enabled SD cards, and a new iOS app that works with” this mode. An Android app is also available. Together, these pieces of software lets you snap…
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On and Off Assignment by Justin Mott: Finally Revealed!!! What's In My Camera Bag
Finally Revealed!!! What’s In My Camera Bag Over the years I’ve noticed photographers like to share what type of gear they travel with and how they pack it for assignments. The format … Link: http://justinmott.blogspot.com/2011/04/finally-revealed-whats-in-my-camera-bag.html Why now after all these years like Deep Throat have I decided to reveal this information you ask? Well if…
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RE-35 no longer available
RE-35 no longer available The belated trophy for best photo-related April Fool’s gag has to go to the RE-35 . A digital cartridge for film cameras? It’s so brilliantl… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2011/04/re-35-no-longer-available.html The belated trophy for best photo-related April Fool’s gag has to go to the RE-35. A digital cartridge for film cameras? It’s so brilliantly…
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Husband plays funny fake news prank on his wife
Husband plays funny fake news prank on his wife Pete says: I know my wife has this “AP Mobile” news app on her phone and receives text message alerts whenever something big is happening around the world, I decided to play a little pr… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/02/husband-plays-funny.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag This morning I changed my name in…
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Koch Industries Quashes Global Warming Parody – NYTimes.com
A Conglomerate’s Tack to Quash a Parody Site Skirting the legal protections for satire, Koch Industries is suing to find out who created a fake news release purported to be from the company. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/business/media/14link.html?_r=1 “We assumed they would be upset about it,” said one of the anonymous pranksters in a telephone interview arranged by…
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On N. Korean heir's birthday, a rude cyber-greeting
On N. Korean heir’s birthday, a rude cyber-greeting Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/08/AR2011010801155.html?wprss=rss_world By the time the micro-blogging mischief was over, the North Korean tweets had ranted to its 10,000-plus Twitter followers about profligate nuclear weapons spending and lavish Kim Jong Il drinking parties – hosted “while 3 million people are starving and freezing to death.” A video…
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Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff From Prankster in Slovakia
Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff From Prankster in Slovakia via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2010/10/fresh_stuff_from_prankster_in_slovakia.html What did Agence France Presse know when it distributed without permission freelance photographer Daniel Morel’s images? What was Getty Images’ role? And why isn’t TwitPic in court?
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Tea Party website 4Channed – Boing Boing
Tea Party website 4Channed The official Tea party website, teaparty.org, has apparently been compromised by los del 4Chan. The “Photos” section of teaparty.org currently links to this url, which (duh, 4chan!) now… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/21/tea-party-website-4c.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 At Hasselblad we’ve worked for years with Multi-shot, which moves the sensor between different shots. If you move sensor…
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Wooster Collective: panoptICONS – An Introduction
Wooster Collective: panoptICONS – An Introduction via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2010/09/panopticons_an_introduction.html camera birds – city birds with cameras instead of heads – were placed throughout the city centre of Utrecht where they feed on the presence of people
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Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott
It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content. I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers. I’ve been putting…
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Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff From Princess Hijab
Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff From Princess Hijab via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2010/08/fresh_stuff_from_princess_hijab_2.html Henri Cartier-Bresson… Garry Winogrand… Helen Levitt… Robert Frank… André Kértész… William Klein… Jacques Henri Lartigue… Marc Riboud… Raymond Depardon… Elliot Erwitt… Joel Meyerowitz… I started this list as I thought of who all the great street photographers might be. But I stopped early, realizing…
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Wooster Collective: Robbie Conal's Guerrilla Postering Guide
via: Wooster Collective: Robbie Conal’s Guerrilla Postering Guide
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Warning stickers for the Daily Mail – Boing Boing
Warning stickers for the Daily Mail England’s Daily Mail isn’t just a source of funny Internet posts, it’s also a veritable font of hysterical, nutso reporting about “epidemics” of child abuse, immigrati… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/03/warning-stickers-for.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 Here’s some sticker template for decorating the free copies of the Wail that you encounter in your life.