Category: How to Pull Off a Prank

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The Diet Coke + Mentos Experiments

From Eepybird.com: What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? By Fritz Grobe (the short one) and Stephen Voltz (the tall one). Music by Audiobody.

This is the video that started it all: a backyard experiment became a cultural phenomenon. We couldn’t believe the reaction! The video even won the Webby Award for best viral video and was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding broadband content.

We’ve since taken Diet Coke & Mentos madness onto the Late Show with David Letterman, the Ellen Degeneres Show, the Today Show, and performed live around the world, from Istanbul to Paris, even in Las Vegas!

Click here to read more of the amazing Diet Coke & Mentos story. Click here for a free download: EepyBird’s Diet Coke & Mentos How-To (pdf).

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Calling All Halloween Alchemists

How to make blood appear on your body without a wound:

Go here for print instructions.

And… If you need any lifelike custom rotted corpses, tombstones or spare body parts, check out BJ Winslow’s gallery of custom made props:

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Via Neatorama and Metacafe. Thanks Don!

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Let There Be Light

Submitted by Kurt Kohl:

Architectural Light Graffiti: Projection Bombing Images on Urban Surfaces

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Have you ever considered the possibility of graffiti without vandalism? There is an impressive variety of legal urban street art, from light art to reverse graffiti. There are also eco-friendly leave-no-trace forms of illegal urban expression, such as urban exploration or guerilla gardening. Architectural light graffiti, or projection bombing, falls somewhere curiously in between. Continue reading “Let There Be Light”

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Manipulation 101: Gaslighting

From Kenrick E. Cleveland of maxpersuasion.com

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August 12th, 2007

Here”s a great example of a powerful strategy called gaslighting and how to use it in your persuasive situations with the affluent”¦

I was flipping through the channels a few nights ago and I stopped on an old episode of M*A*S*H. It was the episode where BJ is bored and in an attempt to entertain himself he decides to have a little fun at Winchester”s expense.

He takes a pair of Winchester”s pants and replaces them with a much larger pair. When Winchester puts them on, BJ casually asks if Winchester is feeling okay, mentioning that lately he”s looked a little sickly. Maybe he”s not eating enough to keep up his energy, and oh boy, does he look way too thin!

A few scenes later BJ replaces the pants with a much smaller pair and when Winchester tries them on, BJ again casually “notices” how much weight Winchester has gained, which sends the vain Winchester into a dieting frenzy.

Having observed this all, Hawkeye asks BJ, “What”s next?”

BJ simply responds, “Tomorrow he gets taller.”

This is an example of gaslighting as a harmless prank, but the technique has far more nefarious potential and conversely when used ethically, some positive potential as well. Continue reading “Manipulation 101: Gaslighting”

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