German performance artist Johan Lorbeer
Category: Pranks
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AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE: Selected works by Evan Roth
Evan Roth’s new self published book project called, /AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE: Selected works by Evan Roth 2003-2008/ (made entirely in Linux using open source software and fonts).
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poster public project on the Behance Network
22% of people read the text on street posters like this one. 28% – try to read, and without having understood any sense of it, go further. The rest don’t pay it attention. But what if the secret of happiness has been written here?
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Wooster Collective: Jenny Abel's Film About Her Father, "Abel Raises Cain"
For over fifty years Alan Abel has been creating absurd hoaxes to fool the media. “Abel Raises Cain” is a very touching tribute to Alan, produced and directed by his daughter, Jenny.
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New York Times Special Edition
New York Times Special Edition Video News Release – Nov. 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo.Early this morning, commuters nationwide were delighted to find out that while they were sleeping, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had come to an end. See the full paper online: nytimes-se.com/
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Trick or Treat Dummy – Urban Prankster
Little Timmy is our four foot tall dummy all dressed up in his halloween costume holding a bag of candy. Armed with a couple of hidden cameras and a wireless microphone we set off to pull pranks in the neighborhood with our fake kid trick or treating
Via Urban Prankster.
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McCain Campaign Signs – Urban Prankster
Someone has been putting little tiny McCain campaign signs in the dog doo left on the streets of Venice, California
Check it out here.
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Mark Jenkins: homeless polar bears art prank – Boing Boing
A Washington DC train station was shut down for a couple hours recently as a bomb squad investigated this “hobo polo bear” standing near a trash can. Turns out, the stuffed animal was part of a collaboration between Greenpeace and prankster artist Mark Jenkins
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Malwebolence – The World of Web Trolling – NYTimes.com
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Something about Mitchell Henderson struck the denizens of /b/ as funny. They were especially amused by a reference on his MySpace page to a lost iPod. Mitchell Henderson, /b/ decided, had killed himself over a lost iPod. The “an hero” meme was born. Within hours, the anonymous multitudes were wrapping the tragedy of Mitchell’s death in absurdity.
Someone hacked Henderson’s MySpace page and gave him the face of a zombie. Someone placed an iPod on Henderson’s grave, took a picture and posted it to /b/. Henderson’s face was appended to dancing iPods, spinning iPods, hardcore porn scenes. A dramatic re-enactment of Henderson’s demise appeared on YouTube, complete with shattered iPod. The phone began ringing at Mitchell’s parents’ home. “It sounded like kids,” remembers Mitchell’s father, Mark Henderson, a 44-year-old I.T. executive. “They’d say, ‘Hi, this is Mitchell, I’m at the cemetery.’ ‘Hi, I’ve got Mitchell’s iPod.’ ‘Hi, I’m Mitchell’s ghost, the front door is locked. Can you come down and let me in?’ ” He sighed. “It really got to my wife.” The calls continued for a year and a half.
In the late 1980s, Internet users adopted the word “troll” to denote someone who intentionally disrupts online communities.
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US Gov't torture playlist stickers – Boing Boing
Mother Jones’s Torture Playlist includes the music used in American military prisons to torture detainees, and ranges from Christina Aguilera to Sesame Street. Using address labels – sized 2.25″ x 0.75″ – you can affix these stickers I designed to CDs in your local record shop and make a small political statement about state violence. I’ve developed the stickers below to raise awareness about this form of torture. There’s a copyright-free PDF available at the suggested website link.
Check it out here.
Bruno's Prank: Arkansas Cage Fights Turn Gay, Crowd Goes Crazy
Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others’ clothes off and kissing _ a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of “Borat” fame.
“We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived,” said Dwight Duncan, president and CEO of Four States Fair Grounds in Texarkana, where the first of two Arkansas fights raised suspicions last month.
Check it out here.
WFMU's Beware of the Blog: The I, Libertine Hoax
Over 50 years ago, one of the greatest media hoaxes ever was foisted upon New York City and the world at large.
Check it out here.