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Fake Roadkill

Charlie Todd — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:35:33 +0000

Prankster Rob Cockerham recently spray-painted a bunch of stuffed animals brown and left them for dead on the sides of roads around Sacramento. Why? Because he’s hilarious. See his documentation.

Shopdropping Fake Products
Dead Body Prank

Fake Fast Food Job Applications

Charlie Todd — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:26:05 +0000

Our friend Rob Cockerham recently organized an awesome nation-wide prank where pranksters replaced fast food job application pads with the ridiculous fake pads he made. The funniest part of the prank is definitely the application itself, which Rob did an excellent job writing. Check out his site to see how he pulled it off and to read the hilarious questions he included. The Fast Food Job Application Prank at Cockeyed.

I was one of the dozen volunteers who helped spread the applications to fast food joints across the country. Check out the documentation of my personal conquest.

Fake Roadkill
Fake NY Post on Streets of NY Today
Fake Soccer Game

Fake Home Depot Shed Signs

Charlie Todd — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:48:56 +0000

Master Prankster Rob Cockerham and his friends around the country recently added some extra signage to the sheds on display in their local Home Depot parking lots.

Rob explains:

Home Depot, forced to lure customers inside without glitzy display windows, seed the warehouse perimeter with their products. This is only practical with hard-to-shoplift items, such as bags of steer manure and storage sheds.

Unfortunately, these sun-baked displays are all but abandoned by the sales staff, and must rely on graphics and signage to speak to their potential customers.

Despite an ambitious number of signs, I felt my local home depot wasn’t addressing some of the strongest benefits of owning a garden/storage/privacy shed/mini-garage/closet. I decided to make some new signs and try them out!

With nine eager volunteers poised to help, I sent signs to try out across the country.

Read all about it: The Shed Prank

Fake Roadkill
Shopdropping Fake Products
Subversive Street Signs

Take a Seat

Charlie Todd — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:19:33 +0000

New York artist Jason Eppink has been getting lots of awesome press for his Take a Seat project lately, including the interview on NY1 above.

He writes:

Take a Seat is an ongoing series of public furniture installations aimed at increasing the availability of seating options in New York City subway stations. Perfectly functional chairs are rescued from trash piles and reassigned to stations where limited seating options leave subway patrons no choice but to stand for extended periods of time.

Take a Seat creates value simply by relocating an object to a new location. Rescued chairs – once liabilities – become assets with little to no effort.

Seating solutions installed for Take a Seat are not affixed to MTA property in any way, opening up opportunities for collaboration with subway patrons who, if they take the initiative, may continue the project by installing the chairs in other locations that could benefit from more seating options.

You also enjoy another of our favorite chair-related projects: Rob Cockerham’s Starbucks Chairs Prank.

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