It’s been five years, but Troy, NY was the birthplace of Whirl-Mart. Prompted by a call for foolishness on April Fool’s Day, Andrew Lynn came up with the idea: a group of strangers enter a superstore at a predetermined time and silently walk through the store pushing empty carts. Through this “ritual of [...]
Status Corp’s Commoddities inspired me to make my very own status symbol. In Adbuster’s mashup style, I used the Louis Vuitton logo as the decoration. Ironically, folding it left me wishing for a bigger Bummer-it was hard for me to fold on such a small scale. Next time, I’ll blow it up [...]
Cory Doctorow:
Guatam Rao has produced some whimsical oil paintings showing magnified, impressionistic elements of MacOS X’s GUI (like this detail from the Safari interface). Quite lovely!
Link, Link, Link
(Thanks, Gautam!)
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Cory Doctorow:
Here’s a video of Mark Hosler of the illegal art band Negativland giving his views on the copyfight.
“You don’t get total control.” Mark Hosler is a founding member of sound collage pioneers Negativland. He talks about their role in creating the Creative Commons sampling license, and about copyright + culture in general. He says Creative Commons is the Sierra Club of intellectual property, and Negativland is more like Earth First!.
Mark is in Minneapolis for the opening of “Negativlandland” which is touring the country. Here’s another video of Mark from the same visit where he talks about the ubiquity of online video and their famous connection to a Minnesota axe murderer.
(Thanks, Chuck!)
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We could all use a bit more stenciling in our jamming!
Converting a color photo to a single layered stencil with Photoshop.
Make a stencil at the Stencil Revolution.
Prudhoe Bay Proper 007
Originally uploaded by felispardalis.
Ok so in the remotest parts of the world the mighty powers of shittyness continue their conquest and maintain that they are not wreaking havock. This is terrifying.
Please take care this summer.
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This dutch site gathers non-profit advertisments and different worldwide social campaigns. Some of these are all too familiar and some are just plain genius.
Bruce Ratner is on a campaign to convince Brooklynites that moving their neighbors out and changing the neighborhood is fun. New flyers went out in the threatened areas that make everyone throw up in their mouths a little.
In a growing facination with bending circuitry and hacking into devices for a greater good, I have come to revere those who use their talents and courage for good. This hack is simple and undeniably awesome.
ZUG: Comedy Articles: Electronic Road Signs and Me