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Terrestrial Shrub Rover

June 30, 2010 Alex Scordelis 2 Comments

Although it was created as an art project, Justin Shull‘s hilarious Terrestrial Shrub Rover has unlimited pranking potential. Shull, a Houston, Texas-based artist, was inspired to create the mobile hedge thanks in part to future space travel. Shull writes on his website:

In the spirit of NASA and its forthcoming 2020 lunar expeditions in preparation for colonizing the moon, the Terrestrial Shrub Rover presents the opportunity to explore terrestrial and social environments back on Earth from within a manned, foliage bedecked, solar electric powered rover.

Whatever the inspiration, we hope that Shull will come around to use the Terrestrial Shrub Rover for pranking purposes in the near future. With his high-tech shrub-on-wheels, Shull could put pranksters like San Francisco’s “World Famous Bushman” to shame.

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Anger Release Machine

February 1, 2010 Alex Scordelis 10 Comments

Are you stressed out and feeling the need to break something? Just pop a few coins in the Anger Release Machine and choose a porcelain item to smash. This clever “venting machine” is the work of Berlin-based artists Katja Kublitz and Ronnie Yarisal.

via psfk

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DOOM Display Billboards

January 6, 2010 Alex Scordelis 2 Comments

4165263121_904e183429 If you were a video game geek in the early 1990’s, this is probably up your alley. A quartet of street artists named Mr. Talion, Epoxy, Baveaux, and Kone have added the heads-up display from the first-person shooter computer game DOOM to a number of billboards throughout Berlin. You can see more here.

via Laughing Squid

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Headless Peeping Tom

December 18, 2009 Alex Scordelis 6 Comments

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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.

via Wooster Collective

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Subway Sign Marriage Proposal

December 7, 2009 Alex Scordelis 2 Comments

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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!

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Crosswalk Dominoes

December 4, 2009 Alex Scordelis

Montreal street artist Roadsworth created a crosswalk made of dominoes for the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

via Wooster Collective

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Urban Cursor

November 9, 2009 Alex Scordelis

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Danish designer Sebastian Campion recently brought his Urban Cursor project to the Ingràvid Festival in Figueres, Spain. Passersby moved the cursor, which was mounted on wheels and outfitted with GPS, around the city center. The cursor’s movements were tracked on Google Maps. According to Campion, the object of the project is “to facilitate social interaction and play in public space.”

via psfk

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Blacktop Battlestar

November 3, 2009 Alex Scordelis

imagen-314 SpY, a Spanish street artist, has been creating urban art since the late 1980’s. He prefers to call his pieces “interventions.” His intervention pictured above is called, “Street Wars.”

via The Art of the Prank via Wired

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Living Sculptures

October 30, 2009 Alex Scordelis 3 Comments

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Austrian artist Willi Dorner recently brought his “Bodies in Urban Spaces” project (which we’ve blogged about before) to London as a part of the annual Dance Umbrella festival. Dorner’s troupe of 20 performers led their audience on a “body sculpture trail” around London, and interacted with urban spaces along the route.

via PSFK and Time Out London

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Red Arrow Project

October 28, 2009 Alex Scordelis

At last weekend’s Art Under the Bridge Festival in Brooklyn, artists Jennifer Fisher and Christian Cerrito launched their Red Arrow Project. The project consisted of several floating cursor kites (which were tied to weather balloons) pointing at random locations and encouraging people to be mindful of things they normally might not look at.

Fisher and Cerrito’s floating red arrows may provide some competition with New York’s long-running Yellow Arrow Project.

via PSFK