Category: Pranks
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Sao Paulo: Art Protest – Josh Spear
During the show, the group went on a rampage using spray paint as artillery, bombing the school with their cryptic-like tags, even spraying officials in the face who tried to stop them. It was chaos and now, after the event, school administrators are thinking about pulling Rafael Augustaitiz’s financial scholarship. Check it out here.
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April Fool's Day Roundup
Serious pranksters take today off, but I guess there are a few good posts worth pointing out. I’ll update this throughout the day, quarantining the fake stuff to this post alone. Online Photographer: Canon 4D Official Leak Apparently our posts on the possible costs of the Canon 5D replacement attracted some attention at Canon. I…
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Sacha Baron Cohen Terrorizes Kansas Airport in Hotpants
Sacha Baron Cohen, who is in Kansas shooting his film Bruno, which centers around his gay Austrian news reporter character, has been terrorizing various locations around the state, including Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport: “Officials there are reviewing its media policies after the so-called German documentary film crew made a scene inside the main terminal on Friday.…
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Skullphone Goes Big In LA – Wooster Collective
In what may go down as one of the best billboard hacks of all time, LA’s Skullphone managed to hijack not one, but ten, of Clear Channel Communications electronic billboards in the Los Angeles area. To pull it off Skullphone found a way to hack into the billboard’s computer network where he then placed his…
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EWU student pranks the New York Times
An aspiring filmmaker at Eastern Washington University says he never meant to prank the New York Times when he posted a video online March 16th. “Pawley P” says he wanted to make a clip that looked like he interrupted a woman’s basketball game by playing a popular song from the 1980’s. The prank of…
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Hacking the Olympic logo – Eyeteeth
China’s crackdown on dissent in Tibet — and, well, everywhere else within its borders — makes Beijing an odd choice as host city for an international gathering dedicated to competition in the “spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.” So it’s no surprise that the Beijing Olympics logo is getting a few enhancements by culture-jammers.…
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The ’80s Video That Pops Up, Online and Off – New York Times
The women’s basketball game at Eastern Washington University on March 8 started out like any other, as the Eagles of E.W.U. faced off against the Montana State Bobcats. Davin Perry, dressed as the singer Rick Astley, broke into a basketball game with an Astley hit from 1987. But a routine timeout turned into a 1980s…
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Fun sticker: "Toilet cameras are for research" – Boing Boing
I snapped a photo of this sticker in one of the restrooms at Ritual Coffee Roasters in San Francisco’s Mission District Check it out here.
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Remixing the London police's anti-photographer terrror posters – Boing Boing
Responding to the London Metropolitan Police’s new anti-photographer snitch campaign, wherein posters urge Londoners to turn in people who might be taking pictures of CCTV cameras, many people have taken a crack at redesigning the posters to point out the absurdity of them. Check it out here.
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Billboard Liberation Front
The Billboard Liberation Front today announced a major new advertising improvement campaign executed on behalf of clients AT&T and the National Security Agency. Focusing on billboards in the San Francisco area, this improvement action is designed to promote and celebrate the innovative collaboration of these two global communications giants. “This campaign is an extraordinary rendition…
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Murakami takes graffitied Murakami billboard – Boing Boing
: In December, graffiti writers AUGER and REVOK modified a billboard advertising the wonderful Takashi Murakami exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Two days later, the billboard was removed. The LA Weekly now reports that Murakami himself saw online photos of the graffitied billboard and thought it to be “so wonderful, he…
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Wooster Collective: The Israeli Border Police in Weimar – An Explanation
: I wanted to bring The Israeli border police in Weimar, the standard armored jeep that the border police uses to patrol will escort me in my daily life in town. I examine what such an action brings, how the presence of a militarized police force from Israel in a small quiet East German place…
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Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ideas.: HTML stencil
: In honor of tonight’s State of the Union address, Bush’s last. Check it out here.
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TED | TEDBlog: Looking at celebrity: Alison Jackson on TED.com
Why can’t you make it through the checkout line without flipping through page after page of pregnant celebs in Us magazine? Alison Jackson knows why. In her work, she photographs the people you think you recognize doing what you really want to see. And in the process, she’s questioning our shared desire to get personal…
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Design Police | Bring bad design to justice.
Design Police | Bring bad design to justice.: “Visual Enforcement Kit” (Via Digg.)
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In Persian Gulf Incident, Some Suspect Hecklers – washingtonpost.com
In Persian Gulf Incident, Some Suspect Hecklers – washingtonpost.com: “The Navy has a monkey on its back. Since at least 1982, U.S. Navy ships plying the Persian Gulf have been taunted by mysterious radio transmissions that are alternately obscene, nonsensical, racist, infantile, misogynistic and menacing. Sometimes they threatened U.S. ships; at other times they simply…
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That's My Girl, Asshole!
This is hands down, my new favorite blog. I know it’s a one-note joke, but it’s perfect. Guy responding to Craigslist Missed Connections ads with those simple four words. With a mouthful of Baby Ruth and water, I nearly choked to death when I burst out laughing and half the candy bar went into my…
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WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa
Yes Men: Philadelphia – At a Wharton Business School conference on business in Africa, World Trade Organization representative Hanniford Schmidt announced the creation of a WTO initiative for “full private stewardry of labor” for the parts of Africa that have been hardest hit by the 500 years of Africa’s free trade with the West. The…