…Exploring the role of the prankster as artist, activist and social observer and the significance of the prank in society.
From Jesse Brown, host of Canadaland Podcast:
The greatest media prankster alive talks to Jesse for our April Fools episode.
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Seattle author Dan Savage is once again taking the piss out of America’s social conservative right.
Savage is best known a sex columnist, podcaster, and political activist. But perhaps more fundamentally he is a masterful media manipulator. Stunts such as his notorious SEO-based public humiliation of then-Senator Rick Santorum rank with the classic pranks of Abbie Hoffman or The Magic Christian.
In response to North Carolina’s wildly controversial “transgender bathroom bill,” Savage, the prankster, has reappeared with another disgusting, gut-busting idea. And this one is not confined to the internet.
“Dan Savage Has A Brilliantly Gross Idea To Protest NC”s Anti-LGBT Law”
by Noah Michelson
Huffington Post
May 9, 2016
If Dan Savage gets his way, Pat McCrory”s office will soon be filled with urine.
On Monday, the writer and activist tweeted his suggestion for how the North Carolina governor and his staff could ensure the “safe disposal” of transgender people”s bodily waste:
Trans people should start dropping off jars filled with their urine at @PatMcCroryNC's office so his staff can oversee its safe disposal.
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) May 9, 2016
Savage”s tweet came just hours after Governor McCrory announced the state of North Carolina would sue the U.S. Justice Department over House Bill 2, which was signed into law in March and forces transgender people to use public restrooms that don”t correspond with their gender identity. The Justice Department had given the state until Monday to stop enforcing HB2 or risk a federal lawsuit.
Rather than agree to follow the Justice Department”s order, McCrory and the state”s secretary of public safety instead filed the lawsuit today against the Justice Department for its “radical reinterpretation” of federal civil rights law. Continue reading “Dan Savage Is Back and He’s Pissed”
Submitted by Deborah: Marshall Reese and Nora Ligorano did this melting ice sculpture called “Middle Class” for the Republic Convention. On to Democratic Convention next.
Melt down at the Republican and Democratic Conventions
Tampa: Lykes Gaslight Park, Sun., Aug. 26, 2012 / Unveiling 11:30 AM
Tampa Event from 11:30 AM-9 PM / Optimum time 11:30 AM-2:30 PM
Charlotte: Marshall Park, Tues., Sept. 4, 2012 / Unveiling 1 PM
Charlotte Event from 1-6 PM / Optimum time 1-3 PM
Large ice sculptures of the words Middle Class will melt away on the first day of the Republican and Democratic Conventions, in nearby public parks in Tampa and Charlotte. The work is by artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese. The sculptures they will install weigh over 2,000 pounds and measure 15 feet wide. Individual letters are 4 feet tall.
The artists call these sculptures “temporary monuments.” After unveiling them, Ligorano and Reese let them melt away and film their disappearance, which can take anywhere from 6 to 24 hours. The dates for the conventions, “do not bode well,” Reese says, “for the sculptures” survival.” “They may disappear,” Ligorano adds, “even faster than usual. It”s a tossup whether, that”s due to economic or climatic conditions.” Continue reading “Middle Class Melt Down: Unconventional Ice Sculptures”
