…Exploring the role of the prankster as artist, activist and social observer and the significance of the prank in society.
It was a cold day in San Francisco, the winter solstice 1983. The city by the bay was about to be attacked by a military force of 21 plaster snowman. What can I say, having grown up in New England I missed winter and it didn”™t look like it was going to snow anytime soon so I sent out some press releases warning the city that “”¦you can”™t escape!” Continue reading “It was a cold day in San Francisco…”
The following is excerpted from Paul Krassner’s book, Sex, Drugs and the Twinkie Murders
In the midst of Disneyland’s 50th anniversary celebration, DisneyLies.com claimed to be serving 50 to 100 gigabites a day of such online imagery as a couple of newlyweds caught on Tom Sawyer Island after dark, major nudity on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, and a virtual orgy on Pirates of the Caribbean. There was also a steamy incident with a couple of cast members in the secret room at the top of the Matterhorn, too. Ah, but what about all those cartoon characters themselves? Continue reading “The Disneyland Memorial Orgy”
Strom writes his “Web Informant” blog about current trends in technology and Internet marketing. This appeared in the fall of 2006, and was originally published for the site TidBITS.com, a site geared towards Apple computer users. The article is updated for ArtofthePrank.com.
The news in the fall of 2006 has me confused; so let me see if I have this straight. MTV is now doing a game where you can play as one of the characters from one of their reality TV shows, a show that employs script writers. These are different writers from the ones who not too long ago were protesting that they weren’t paid enough and had to falsify their time sheets to show that they worked fewer hours.
Then there are people making money off of selling Second Life businesses that sell virtual goods to others inside their virtual world. Continue reading “The New Virtuality, and Truth is Stranger than Fiction”