Huge Yes Men shenanigans on Monday in New York

The uncanny Yes Men are up to something big on Monday. Five days ago, they sent out an email to their mailing list with a message saying that “If you live in New York, please visit http://newyorkbigevent.com/ to sign up for some GIANT, extremely FUN, potentially WORLD-FIXING shenanigans on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. (…) We can’t […]

Remixes of British anti-terror posters

Time for another funny post based on dead-serious background: The brilliant Boing Boing blog has thrown a remix challenge, where it’s readers were asked to “mock the ridiculous new ‘anti-terrorism’ posters the London police have put up that tell you to spy on your neighbors.” Here are the best 25 of what people came up […]

Brave New Films

I would like to present a great phenomenon that I’ve learned of recently (from reading an article in Danish newspaper, Information – it’s in Danish, read it here). The phenomenon is a small compony by the name of Brave New Films, an Los Angeles-based independent film production company, founded by Robert Greenwald, specializing in creating […]

Coen brothers’ comment on “clean coal”

Check out this short film made by the Coen brothers commissioned by Thisisreality.org – it so puts the weird ‘clean coal’ notion into perspective. Read the Boing Boing blog post where I found it.

Funeral for analog tv

On a less serious note, the tech-geek inside me really enjoyed this little bit (see video below). It stars Bruce Sterling, whose book ‘Shaping Things’ I conincidentilly just picked up in Amsterdam. Check out the Boing Boing blog posting (where I found the video).

Shooting in the NY subway

All of us who has ever visited New York has sneaked into shooting a few pictures in the subway, even if it is not allowed. The setting is so compelling and each subway station has its own unique and indeed very photogenic identity that gives everyone with a camera an itchy trigger finger. However, it […]

Another slick tactical media strike

I have a weak spot for the web activists do tactical media strikes in the shape of mock versions of corporate websites (classics being RTmarks fake George W. Bush website back when the bozo was running for guvernor in Texas). One of the latest succesful ones target Canon – check it out…and more out. I […]

Google Maps as street art channel

I just love things like that: A group of grass-root art organizers in Pittsburgh staged a street spectacle on the day the Google Maps Street View camera car came by to map their neighborhood. Read this Washington Post article, and read about the event on the groups, Street With A View, own website.

Epicentre war protest

Boing Boing’s videoblog – BBtv – from yesterday, January 29, 2009, is really cool. First off, it takes a look at photographer Glen E. Friedman’s photos of old school hip hop artists including Run DMC and Public Enemy. However, 4 minutes in, it gets really interesting, as it looks at an awesome large-scale anti-war statement […]

“Entropa” – controversial art

Czech Republic artist David Cerny has really stirred the pond with his EU-funded piece ‘Entropa’. Danish newspaper Information recently published an interesting article on the matter (in Danish, sorry), but also a gazzillion blogs have picked up the story. Here is one (in English). My thoughts are: How can this upset people so much? Art […]