…Exploring the role of the prankster as artist, activist and social observer and the significance of the prank in society.
Here you will find tips from the pros about intent, content, and technique to help you be successful in getting your message across.
As seen on Laughing Squid, posted by Aaron Muszalski on April 6, 2010:
Matthew Weathers, a Mathematics and Computer Science Professor at Biola University in Southern California, has a charming talent for surprising his students with clever video projector pranks.
For a tutorial on how Matthew Weathers creates these video projector pranks, click here.
An amazing magic trick performed on CCTV for Chinese New Year 2010:
Liu Qian – Magic Show on 2010 Chinese New Year
Within hours, the trick was exposed online. So much for the keeping the magic of the mystery!
thanks Linda
From Randy Sarafan at Instructables.com:
Tweet When You Toot: The Twittering Office Chair
The Twittering office chair “tweets” (posts a Twitter update) upon the detection of natural gas such as that produced by human flatulence. This is part of my commitment to accurately document and share my life as it happens.
For more in depth theory, please see the next step entitled Theory [This link takes you to the tutorial].
See the results of the toots of your labor on Twitter.
More fun with Twitter:
From Gigafide of http://www.tinkernut.com/:
Wired’s Guide to Hoaxes: How to Give “” and Take “” a Joke
Essay by Scott Brown, The Official Prankonomy by Steven Leckart
Wired.com
August 24, 2009
Here’s what you’ve been told: “There’s a sucker born every minute.” “Take or be taken.” “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.” These aphorisms are so ingrained in American life, they’re practically commandments. And for good reason: We are a credulous people. For proof, open your spam folder and count the chain emails from 1998 that are still coming in, dutifully forwarded by friends and relatives. Or consider that new Facebook pal whose name seemed familiar enough when you hit Confirm. We are, today, the same easy marks who ran screaming from Orson Welles’ made-up Martians and flocked to see the Cardiff Giant. So we’re defensive. A hoax, we are taught, is an invasive, aggressive stratagem””a nefarious short-circuiting of our natural social instincts, a hack of Trust itself, a deterministic, zero-sum shell game with a clear winner (the prankster) and loser (the gull).
Well, here’s what we’re telling you: Bullshit. Continue reading “Wired’s Guide to Hoaxes”