Author: Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert was born in Los Angeles in 1976 and moved to the Bay Area four days later. He was born to a former Franciscan Monk and a Dominican Nun who practiced a variation of Liberation Theology, then abandoned organized religion and left the church a year before his birth. Despite never graduating from high school, Steve went on to study sociology, film, and music before receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000 and a Master of Fine Arts degree at UC Davis in 2006. He founded the outdoor, guerilla art gallery, the Budget Gallery, in 1999 and the Anti-Advertising Agency in 2004. Steve has worked as a furniture installer, radio host, record store clerk, ballet dancer, parking lot attendant, Winnie the Pooh at kid\"™s parties, mystery shopper, undercover store investigator, theater house manager, delivery truck driver, national dealer representative, upright bass player in country western band, high school teacher, landscaper, and lecturer among other things. He currently claims artist and professor on his taxes. Steve\"™s projects and art works have won awards from Rhizome/The New Museum, the Creative Work Fund, Adbusters Media Foundation, the California Arts Council, the Belle Foundation, and others. His work has been shown nationally in cities like Detroit, New York, and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as internationally in Havana, Canada, Barcelona, and Rotterdam. Writings about his work have appeared in multiple publications such as the New York Times, Punk Planet, Artweek, and Newsweek Magazine. Steve is currently a fellow at Eyebeam\"™s Open R&D Lab in New York. Read Steve's Artist Statement here.
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It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. It’s a… Flying Penis!

From Steve Lambert:

A flying penis helicopter interrupts a recent speech by International chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov in Russia. It’s immature, yet I am more impressed by this genius than the chess genius.

via BoingBoing Gadgets

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    Draft Zachary Feinstein

    Submitted by Steve Lambert:

    Zachary Feinstein has declared for the NBA draft
    He has no actual basketball experience!

    Zach FeinsteinFrom Zach’s Web site:

    The short story is that I, Zachary Feinstein, have declared for the 2008 NBA Draft. As a 5’8″ 130 pound Caucasian, I am the perfect candidate for professional basketball. Also, I do not play basketball.

    You see, I am not currently on my college’s basketball team (Division 3 just for reference) nor did I try out to be. I was at no point on my high school’s basketball team nor did I try out to be. I was at no point on my middle school’s basketball team nor did I try out to be. The last time I was on a basketball team was before Bill Clinton got caught with his pants down.

    So there you have it, I, Zach Feinstein, am in the 2008 NBA Draft.

    If you do not believe me, go to: draftexpress.com or nbadraft.net for proof (under “unknown players”).

    Support Zach Feinstein in Getting Drafted into the NBA
    Read through my site, and let’s create a campaign to get the worst player ever to declare for the NBA Draft into the NBA.

    I would like to thank everyone for their support, and I will be updating this site periodically.

    thanks Michael

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    BLF Improves an AT&T Billboard in SF

    Submitted by Steve Lambert:

    Billboard Liberation Front

    The Billboard Liberation Front today announced a major new advertising improvement campaign executed on behalf of clients AT&T and the National Security Agency. Focusing on billboards in the San Francisco area, this improvement action is designed to promote and celebrate the innovative collaboration of these two global communications giants.

    “This campaign is an extraordinary rendition of a public-private partnership,” observed BLF spokesperson Blank DeCoverly. “These two titans of telecom have a long and intimate relationship, dating back to the age of the telegraph. In these dark days of Terrorism, that should be a comfort to every law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide.”

    video via iovdebeholther

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    CheatNeutral: Helping you because you can’t help yourself

    From Steve Lambert:

    A brilliant prank. At CheatNeutral, they offer to “offset your infidelity” for a small fee. You cheat, pay them $5, and they make sure there is someone else who doesn’t cheat – therefore there is less cheating in the world. They then go on to get coverage on the BBC and US media talking about what a scam carbon offsetting is.

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