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March 24, 2009December 15, 2023

Happy Birthday to The Art of the Prank (almost)!

On April Fools’ Day 2009,
The Art of the Prank Blog
will be two years old!

Note to our contributors, friends and fans:
In celebration, we have moved the entire blog to a cloud server. This will help us accommodate more volume and more traffic. Since we’re making big changes, we decided to change our Web address at the same time. Why not cause the maximum confusion for the most people?

Henceforth, The Art of the Prank Blog will be found at
http://artoftheprank.com
(instead of http://Pranks.com)

Our new email addresses are:
admin @ artoftheprank.com to talk with us
submit @ artoftheprank.com to submit materials to the site

You can continue to count on us to bring you the profound, the profane, and the pathetic, that is — the widest spectrum of artful pranks; culture jamming & reality hacking; creative activism; literary, media & political hoaxes; truth that’s stranger than fiction; prank instructionals; and loads of practical jokes and mischief.

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March 22, 2009December 15, 2023

The Art of War

Tyler students wage a friendly art war
by Susan Snyder
Philadephia Inquirer
March 21, 2009

Tyler Art Students Wage War For nearly 30 hours, the new art students in town built their self-proclaimed acts of “art war” – eight-and-a-half-foot sculptures of Trojan horses – which they then stealthily installed on the campuses of four Philadelphia arts colleges earlier this week.

“Art war,” proclaimed Alyssa Brubaker, 22, a Medford, senior studying at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, which relocated from Elkins Park to North Philadelphia in January.

“We’re here now.”

The prank, however, had a larger purpose: to open dialogue among students at major art schools in the city.

Chester Zecca, 22, a Tyler school senior from Berwyn, said he often lamented that there was not more communication.

“It’s really important for artists to have a strong community, the more the better,” he said.

The idea was born in mid-February in an advanced sculpture class when assistant professor Karyn Olivier asked students to think of a project that would require them to work together for an extended period of time, as artists must sometimes do. The group of 12 students decided that a calling card of sorts was the project to embrace. Continue reading “The Art of War”

March 12, 2009December 15, 2023

Human Petting Zoo

From the Club Animals Human Petting Zoo press release:

Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Home Sweet Home
(bar does not have sign)
131 Chrystie St, Manhattan
9pm-11pm
Free
http://clubanimalsnyc.blogspot.com/

Club Animals

The petting zoo is coming to town tonight to all you city folk, so bring a quarter for some feed and reconnect with nature. Wonder behind the chicken wire and interact with the critters docile enough to touch and feed. But wait, these are not the sheep and goats you might remember from your childhood because Club Animals are your people friends, thoughtfully dressed in animal mascot heads and clothes to match. Yes, you heard right. (Club Animals is a theater group dressed in animal costumes who perform interactive art prank theater in unusual places). The bar Home Sweet Home will be transformed into a petting zoo complete with a bear, chicken, dolphin, dog, and a lot of hay. All the critters are cute, cuddly and underfed, so extend a flat palm of feed and a nice pat on the head and rekindle that important human-animal bond that you may have forgotten long ago. Music by Lucas Walters.

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