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New Improv Everywhere: The Mute Button

Charlie Todd — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:59:03 +0000

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Produced by Charlie Todd and Matt Adams / Music by Tyler Walker

For Improv Everywhere’s latest mission 23 actors and 2 dogs infiltrated a public space and went on “mute” at coordinated intervals. The mission took place near the northern entrance to Prospect Park in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The Mute Button was produced by Improv Everywhere as part of the Guggenheim Museum exhibition stillspotting nyc.

Project Page with Photos

Carousel Horse Race Prank by Improv Everywhere

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Charlie Todd — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:00:28 +0000

This guy is changing the game.

video directed by Keith Haskel

Madrid Street Advertising Takeover

Pac-Man Street Art

Charlie Todd — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:50:48 +0000

Katie Sokoler recently turned the streets of Greenpoint, Brooklyn into a giant Pac-Man game. More photos on her site.

Madrid Street Advertising Takeover

Subversive Street Signs

Alex Scordelis — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:55:25 +0000

A mysterious street artist named TrustoCorp has placed street signs around Brooklyn, with messages ranging from silly to sophomoric. TrustoCorp also took his or her show on the road recently, posting signs around Los Angeles and Miami. A gallery of the signs can be viewed on TrustoCorp’s flickr page.

via Gothamist.

Madrid Street Advertising Takeover

Invisible Dogs in Brooklyn

Charlie Todd — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:14:00 +0000

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edited by Matt Adams / “The Dogs Were Let Out by Whom?” song by Tyler Walker

For Improv Everywhere’s latest mission, over 2,000 people walked “invisible dogs” down the streets of Brooklyn on a Sunday afternoon. The leashes were on loan from the current owner of 51 Bergen Street, the factory space where the invisible dog toy was invented in the 1970s. Participants of all ages spread out from Red Hook to Brooklyn Heights, very seriously walking their very silly dogs.

Invisible Dogs

New Improv Everywhere: The Mute Button

Ghost Hole at the Putting Lot

Charlie Todd — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:45:03 +0000

The Putting Lot is the awesome new putt putt course built in an abandoned lot in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Their site explains:

Each hole is designed by a different team of artists and architects around themes of urban sustainability. Playing a round at the lot is an interactive experience, requiring golfers to step inside the artist’s visions and the ideas that have inspired them. Through the transformation of the lot, the construction of the holes, and a series of events held in the public area, we hope to provide a forum for discussing urban sustainability in a new context.

Ghost Hole, pictured above, is a hole created by artist Ben Roosevelt. Ben describes the hole:

To make my part of the course, the exact area of the vacant lot in Brooklyn where my hole would be built was photographed prior to any cleaning or building. Then the photographs were used to make an outdoor, high-traffic decal for the actual playing surface of the hole. A player could look down and see what was in the exact spot before building: trash, debris, rocks, etc.

Cool!

The Condiment War

Charlie Todd — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:48:02 +0000

This project happened six years ago, but this video just popped up on the net last month. In August of 2003 the Madagascar Institute had a massive “condiment war” in DUMBO Brooklyn.

Daniel Maurer was there and wrote up an awesome first hand account. Here’s an excerpt:

There were supposed to be four armies: Madagascar Institute, the Toyshop Collective, the Greenpoint-based art collective WAMP, and “the bloodthirsty public, banded together in an Irregular Militia.” (Several civilians also posed as pacifists, meditating in the Lotus position even as they were pelted.) The teams were demarked by the color of their armbands (civies in yellow) and stationed in opposite corners, but as soon as the schnitzel hit the fan, all was chaos.

Noise makers and blow horns filled the air, as did a dizzying plethora of condiments. Suddenly I felt like I was in Saving Private Ryan. Men and women in plastic coveralls ran around spraying each other, or throwing chunks of hot dog, dough, pretty much anything edible. A woman wheeled an ice cream cart into the center of the staging area and pulled a hose out of it, spraying everyone around her. Another combatant hid her condiments in a baby carriage disguised as an elephant. Someone with a Super Soaker pumped vinegar into my eye.

From the rooftop of an adjacent 10-story building, people threw balloons full of god-knows-what onto the street below. At one point I looked up to see an operative rappelling off the side of the building. The figure stopped halfway down to drop a cluster of condiment bombs. All the while I ran around squeezing my wimpy squirt bottle of ketchup, feeding off the thrill of soiling total strangers while trying not to slip on a lava bed of spent ammo

Another write up
Some photos

(thanks Kevin)

Ellis Gallagher, Shadow Artist

Charlie Todd — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:08:04 +0000

Current has a great profile on Brooklyn street artist Ellis Gallagher and his shadow-based street art. Also check out his recent Gothamist interview.

Madrid Street Advertising Takeover

PosterBoy Update

Charlie Todd — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:47:43 +0000

Friends We Love posted an interview of New York’s most prolific subway street artist, PosterBoy:

Here’s a video of PosterBoy in action:

Poster Boy In Action from ANIMALmagazine on Vimeo.

And finally a video of PosterBoy taking down an entire billboard that he declares in the video description to be “a sign of what’s to come”:

(video shot by the Public Ad Campaign)

Madrid Street Advertising Takeover

Thought Bubbles in Brooklyn

Charlie Todd — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:07:17 +0000

Katie Sokoler and Matt Adams decorated the streets of Brooklyn with some awesome “thought bubbles” and then waited for the perfect moment to capture photos of people walking under them.

See more at Color Me Katie.

Reminds us of Ji Lee’s Bubble Project.

New Improv Everywhere: The Mute Button

Urban Prankster » brooklyn

New Improv Everywhere: The Mute Button

Hot New Street Artist Deeq-Fore﻿

Pac-Man Street Art

Subversive Street Signs

Invisible Dogs in Brooklyn

Ghost Hole at the Putting Lot

The Condiment War

Ellis Gallagher, Shadow Artist

PosterBoy Update

Thought Bubbles in Brooklyn

Hot New Street Artist Deeq-Fore