Here’s the latest from Washington, DC artist Mark Jenkins (who’s a favorite here at Urban Prankster). Jenkins’s specialty is creating human sculptures out of packing tape and leaving them in unusual places. This piece was installed in London.
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Taking Notes on a Typewriter in Class
New Improv Everywhere – A Handbell Choir Helps out a Salvation Army Bell Ringer
(View it in 1080p HD on YouTube)
edited by Matt Adams / idea by Jason Eppink
For our latest mission, a 13-member handbell choir provided some unexpected accompaniment for a Salvation Army bell ringer on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Enjoy the video first and then go behind the scenes with our report below.
Read the behind-the-scenes and see photos: Guerrilla Handbell Strikeforce
Security Notice
This photo’s a little blurry, but it made me laugh. It looks like it was posted somewhere on the campus of USC. It’s part of a larger project called POSTERGASM. The leader of the movement wrote in to say:
I run a project called POSTERGASM which you might dig – basically it’s an open source poster prank project. People create weird, funny, or surreal posters and upload them to the ‘net. Then other pranksters print them out and put them up in their neighborhoods.
Here’s a site where you can download various absurd posters to put up locally. And you can see hundreds of photos of the posters in action on flickr.
Thanks Dan.
Subway Sign Marriage Proposal
Toronto artist Posterchild recently took a break from installing art in NYC phone booths to propose to his girlfriend. He popped the the question by appropriating a sign reserved for ad space above a Manhattan subway stop. Posterchild writes:
She thought she was just helping me out with another street art project; I kept this covered until after it was installed and after the unveiling I was expecting some kind of reaction- but it took a little while to convince her that this was a proposal for real, and not just some art project!
And she said yes! Congrats!
Crosswalk Dominoes
Montreal street artist Roadsworth created a crosswalk made of dominoes for the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.