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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Matti on Thu 13/11/2008 08:26:21

Title: The Yesmen striked again
Post by: Matti on Thu 13/11/2008 08:26:21
Haha, I love the Yesmen. Did you hear of their newest prank, the fake New York Times issue?

http://urbanprankster.com/2008/11/massive-fake-ny-times-prank/

http://www.nytimes-se.com/
Title: Re: The Yesmen striked again
Post by: Ali on Thu 13/11/2008 10:58:30
The only impossible fact missing from that is: "US elects first black president"
Title: Re: The Yesmen striked again
Post by: Akatosh on Thu 13/11/2008 15:01:53
Heh... that even made it into German news.

/EDIT: The fake newspaper, I mean. The black guy, too, but that's a little less surprising, considering how Europe is basically one huge Obama fanclub.
Title: Re: The Yesmen striked again
Post by: space boy on Thu 13/11/2008 15:18:20
Quote from: Akatosh on Thu 13/11/2008 15:01:53
The black guy, too

Oh yeah, I think they once mentioned him somewhere.
Title: Re: The Yesmen striked again
Post by: Evil on Thu 13/11/2008 17:42:35
This reminds me of some of the work by the group Eye Beam. Steve Lambert came up with this idea for "Shopdropping" and did a workshop a few weeks ago at my university.

http://www.travelistic.com/video/show/2369/Culture-Jamming-101:-ShopDropping

I'm not a huge fan of guerilla art or advertising, but the creativity and motivation of some of these groups is unbelievable.
Title: Re: The Yesmen striked again
Post by: MrColossal on Thu 13/11/2008 19:36:48
Evil, The Yesmen did that too in the 90s I think, though they called it Shop Putting

They took the voice boxes out of Barbie dolls and GI Joe and swapped them so that Barbie would talk about war and GI Joe would talk about shopping.
Title: Re: The Yesmen striked again
Post by: Layabout on Thu 13/11/2008 20:07:25
Me and Francisco met one of the distributors of the fake NY Times. Pretty impressive stuff, we got a couple of copies of it. It's a really great read, and there was loads of work put into the articles.
Title: Re: The Yesmen striked again
Post by: Makeout Patrol on Fri 14/11/2008 03:00:26
Quote from: MrColossal on Thu 13/11/2008 19:36:48
They took the voice boxes out of Barbie dolls and GI Joe and swapped them so that Barbie would talk about war and GI Joe would talk about shopping.

This is probably my favorite bit of culture jamming ever.