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September 9, 2011December 15, 2023

Google Street Theater, Act III

Aussie penis pranksters deface Google Street View
by Asher Moses
The Sydney Morning Herald
September 9, 2011

Pranksters have been playing tricks on Google’s Street View cameras ever since the mapping tool was first launched in 2007, but miscreants in Victoria have delivered a low blow.

Street View images of Long Gully and Maiden Gully near Bendigo in Victoria have been defaced with a giant green penis outline after vandals climbed on top of one of Google’s camera-equipped cars and drew the phallus on its camera lens.

The find was first discovered by users on BuzzFeed and has since gone viral across the web. Google Australia has yet to remove the images or make a comment on the matter – and it is not clear who is responsible.

It follows the June discovery of an array of six penises etched into the grass of a school in Waikato, New Zealand. Continue reading “Google Street Theater, Act III”

June 19, 2010December 15, 2023

Flipping Off St. Petersburg

Submitted by Kate McCamy:

Why Russian Art Group Voina ‘Dicked” a St. Petersburg Bridge
AnimalNewYork.com
June 16, 2010:

… St Petersburg”s renegade art-group of political pranksters – Voina (War) – turned a historic bridge into one giant “Fuck You!” to the Russian federal agencies. Here”s how they pulled it off.

Over the years, Voina staged many actions: police station take-overs, anti-homophobic faux-lynchings in malls, stray cat throwing into swanky restaurants, anti-Medvedev public orgies and all kinds of ruckus. Their most recent target: the headquarters of FSB, the offices of Russia”s KGB incarnate Federal Security Service. Our source: Voina themselves. Continue reading “Flipping Off St. Petersburg”

December 4, 2009December 15, 2023

Putz or Schmuck?

Submitted by W.J. Elvin III: Sorry to see where the Washington Times is cutting 40 percent of staff, maybe Rev. Moon needs more imaginative promotion of his product:

Berlin’s History Res-Erected: Giant Penis Sparks Bizarre Media War
by Thomas Hüetlin
Spiegel Online International
December 3, 2009

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Four decades ago, the mass-circulation tabloid Bild did its best to squelch the 1968 student movement in Berlin. This year, the German capital has seen the conflict swell once again. And it has resulted in some rather stiff competition.

The shimmering, gold-colored high-rise building that publisher Axel Springer had built in the 1960s is just a stone’s throw from the offices of Berlin’s legendary left-wing Tageszeitung newspaper, more commonly known simply as the “Taz.” But for someone looking from the 17th floor of the Springer building, where the main editorial offices of the influential tabloid newspaper Bild are located, a few trees block the view of the gray building that houses the editorial offices of the Taz, a publication that appears to believe even today that it has the right to dictate what it means to be left-wing in Germany. Continue reading “Putz or Schmuck?”