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Artist Ellen Moynihan and three artist friends, in a clever and bold juxtiposition of reality, took interior decorating to new lows — the New York subway system. They transformed an F train into a comfortable replica of a living room.

The New York Post covered the story:


RAILROAD APARTMENT: HOME DECORATORS AMBUSH F TRAIN
By Jeremy Olshan, Transit Reporter
New York Post

Subway Installation

April 7, 2007 — Interior decorators hijacked an F train yesterday morning, transforming Car 5929 into a cozy living room with curtains, flowers, throw pillows and rugs.

The four artists behind this guerrilla installation, dubbed “No Train Like Home,” boarded the F in Coney Island at 7:38 a.m. carrying brown paper shopping bags filled with decorations and lots of double-sided tape.

As soon as the doors closed, the foursome started covering up every ad in the car with Andy Warhol prints and images of bookshelves.

They left the subway maps alone… For more of this story and more photos, check out The New York Post.

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Franco & Eva Avatars

Franco and Eva Mattes are, in their own words, “a couple of restless European con-artists who use non-conventional communication tactics to obtain the largest visibility with the minimal effort.”

Their current work, involves a synthetic performance in the 3D online digital world of Second Life.

Joseph Beuys" 7000 Oaks

A past project called Nikeground, or, as their Web site says, “The Hardly Believable Nike Ground Trick,” was a “hyper-real theatrical performance”. Continue reading “0100101110101101.org”

On the subject of cheese…

From Tamara Thorne:

Cheesus

Just in time for your Easter snack-tray


Cheese Boots

And, if you’re still hungry, Cosimo Cavallaro, whose sculpture I did it daddy was first done in 2005 and is now causing quite a stir in New York City, has an entire body of work made from cheese.

Straight from the pranksters bag of tricks…

Coptix Photoshop JobHere’s an example of how a carefully placed falsified document can foment a conspiracy theory. But remember, conspiracy theories are generally neither completely true nor completely false. That’s what gives them legs. The links here show the story from two opposing points of view:

Rove personally connected to email scandal
by www.dailykos.com · March 31, 2007

Land of the lost: Left-wing blogs get punked
by MichelleMalkin.com · April 04, 2007

There are lots of links to follow to piece the story together.


Post Script: Later in the day after this post was published, ArtofthePrank.com received this comment from Josiah at Coptix:

    “You can see the whole thing here, if you’re interested.”

Thanks Josiah! -JS