Mediocre Films played a prank on one of the “Free Hugs” guys by offering Deluxe Hugs for $2.
Here’s the original Free Hugs video from YouTube (43 million views and counting):
Archive for the 'parks' Category
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Artist d.billy installed this sign in Central Park recently. Be there Thursday at 2 PM with a magnifying glass to check it out! (Though be careful not to melt the participants.)
This caught my eye in Union Square a couple of weeks ago. From a distance I thought I might have stumbled onto a Mark Jenkins tape sculpture. He’s in town with a solo show at Stricola. It turned out that the dummy was the work of a group of high school students from the Lyons Community School in Brooklyn. I caught them watching me and went over to investigate. They were doing this Jenkins-inspired project for a class and were there to observe people’s reactions. Cool!
Tweenbots is a new project by Kacie Kenzer. She explains:
Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.
(Thanks Haley and Danielle)
Can you send a video camera up into the air and get awesome aerial footage just by attaching helium balloons? Yes.
Some Cardinal’s fans decided to declare their hatred for the Chicago Cubs in the snow outside Busch Stadium in St. Louis. While the message is not all that inspiring, you have to admit the execution is impressive. That’s some good hand footwriting.
via home run derby (thanks Jason)
Here’s Mark Jenkins‘ latest installation, this time in Bordeaux, France. The fallen skater is a dummy, in case that’s not obvious. I wonder how he got it out there?
DC Defenestrators, the Washington DC group from the Urban Prankster Network, just posted a video of a mission from last summer. In it they play an oversized game of Risk on the Navy Memorial world map in DC.
For NL Architects’ latest project they created a “moving forest” in Amsterdam:
The Moving Forest are 100 trees strapped into 100 shopping-carts lurking around in an urban environment blocking peoples way and forcing passers to act on them. According to NL’s Gen Yamamoto the idea comes from a story he heard as a child about a forest where the trees move at night so that people would loose there way and could never get out.
After the period of 6 weeks when the festival is over, the trees will be sold on to citizens and find a new home.
via Inspire Me Now
Last week we told you about the Ghost Dance happening in Boston. Judging by the video above it looks like it was a blast!
Banditos Misteriosos writes:
Dozens of ghosts of all ages converge upon Boston’s Columbus Park to dance up a Halloween storm.
Participants were asked to bring a sheet, an mp3 player with a prerecorded song, press play all at once, and dance away! To outside observers, our ghosts were merely dancing in silence, the music only being heard through the earphones of participants.
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