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Breaking Bad: The Middle School Musical

‘Breaking Bad: The Middle School Musical’ Geniuses Rhett & Link Talk Going Viral
by Kevin Fallon
The Daily Beast
August 11, 2013

Always wanted to see 11-year-old sing about cooking meth? Meet Rhett & Link, the viral video gurus who brought the dream to life.

We”ve all had that awkward experience. You file into a suburban middle school”s auditorium for your 11-year-old cousin”s production of Grease, squirming uncomfortably as little Timmy sings about Greased Lightning being a “real pussy wagon” and the prepubescent tween girl playing Rizzo belts a ballad about teenage pregnancy and sexual regret.

Now imagine if those kids were singing about cooking meth. Or, excuse me, “rock candy.”

That precise idea””the cringe-comedy of children earnestly performing age-inappropriate theater material””is behind the hit viral video Breaking Bad: The Middle School Musical. Created by viral video gurus Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal (better known as “Rhett & Link”), this is the latest in their original Middle School Musical series, which also includes Star Trek and Superman entries. Continue reading “Breaking Bad: The Middle School Musical”

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Giant Crisco Can Helps Ease the Pain in Detroit

Submitted by Danny Rollingstone on the AOTP Facebook page:

Update: City Trashes Crisco Can Artist Installed At Fist To ‘Ease Bankruptcy Pain’
by Bill McGraw
deadlinedetroit.com
July 29, 2013

Update, Monday, Aug. 4: BuzzFeed names the Crisco can among the best street art for 2013.

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In what he said was a gesture of sympathy to a bankrupt city, a Detroit artist jumped out of his pickup truck early Tuesday at Woodward and Jefferson and deposited an oversized replica of a Crisco can at the base of the Joe Louis fist.

That is art in an Andy Warhol sort of way, even though most of the commuters roaring past at 7:15 a.m. did not appear to be aware that they had witnessed a real live installation, even if it was off-the-wall to the point of obscurity. And it’s also uncertain if other passersby will get the humor and irony behind the can, whose top bore a striking resemblance to the wavy, white, greasy substance in a real Crisco container.

Update, 1:47 p.m.: City officials say they plan to remove the Crisco can because they see it as “abandoned property.” It was gone by 2 p.m. Continue reading “Giant Crisco Can Helps Ease the Pain in Detroit”

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COMBO Street Art: Same Spectacle, New Meaning

Culture Jamming Street Artist COMBO Stages Topless Spectacle in Paris
brooklynstreetart.com
July 18, 2013

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In the face of 21st Century misogyny and a general discomfort with public nipples of the female variety, a male street artist named COMBO just staged a high profile half naked protest with wheat-paste, brushes, and breasts in Paris on July 14. Reinterpreting the painter Delacroix”s Liberty Leading the People that commemorated the July Revolution of 1830, COMBO brought the famous topless symbol of Liberty into the streets of 2013 by way of tribute to a brash new feminist movement that is appearing more often across Europe.

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“By hijacking such an iconic piece of art,” says the twenty something art director cum Street Artist, “I want to denunciate the discrimination and other misogynistic behavior that women still suffer too often and to pay a tribute to the activists” fight.” The activists in this case are people like Inna Shevshenko, the Gen Y leader of Femen, a theatrical and warrior-like group of women who advocate in public displays of power and bare chests to address issues like sexism, misogyny, homophobia, religious hypocrisy, and sex trafficking. Continue reading “COMBO Street Art: Same Spectacle, New Meaning”

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Chinese Artists Create Social Mood Art in Beijing

Mood Swings at Beijing”s Water Cube
by Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
Wall Street Journal
June 25, 2013

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Beijing”s Water Cube is perhaps best known as the place where Michael Phelps won eight gold medals. This week, it became the site for something altogether different: a real-time “painting” of China”s mood, as revealed by Sina Weibo emoticons.

“Nature and Man in Rhapsody of Light at the Water Cube,” a collaboration between the artist Jennifer Wen Ma and lighting designer Zheng Jianwei, opened last Sunday. Using the former Olympics venue”s distinctive exterior, it broadcasts the sentiments of the Chinese social-media service”s millions of users through an interactive lighting display that runs from dusk to 10 p.m. daily.

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“I have conceived this as a piece that can breathe,” says Ms. Ma, who turns 40 this week, “as an organic being that changes as nature and society around it changes. I want people to feel like they have some authorship because their emotions are being registered.” Continue reading “Chinese Artists Create Social Mood Art in Beijing”

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The Fox is in the Hen House! Joey Skaggs to Present at Advertising Week EU

Dog.DogMeatSoup.72.200Joey Skaggs will be infiltrating the Advertising Week EU Festival in London Tuesday, March 19, 2013. His presentation, introduced by PR guru Mark Borkowski, will be at 1:00pm at BAFTA.

He’ll talk about the art of the prank and the use of public relations and advertising strategies to rock the status quo. Skaggs, using multi-media examples of his work, will pull back the curtain on techniques he has used for decades to access the mass media, repeatedly throwing a monkey wrench into the propaganda machine.

What: Advertising Week EU
When: Tuesday, March 19, 1:00 pm
Where: BAFTA in London

Read more:

  • It’s no joke: America’s top prankster comes to London, The Independent (scroll to the middle of the page)
  • Joey Skaggs – the most notorious socio-political satirist talks to Jessie Brinton, Run Riot!
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    Huffington Post UK

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