Party at an unemployment office! / Fiesta en una sucursal del Inem! [English & Spanish]

Submitted by Steve Lambert from the site of Enmedio (Intercambio colaboracià³n y trabajo colectivo de Enmedio):


Fiesta en el Inem / Party at an unemployment office
Enmedio
30 Abril 2009

Fed up with the crisis. Tired of the fear that mass media communicate everyday. Sick of suffering in silence at home, we decided… go dancing at an unemployment office. Here is the result.

http://blip.tv/play/Af6VRYuOLw

[Espaà±ol]
Hoy Jueves 30 de abril se ha llevado a cabo la fiesta en el Inem. La venà­amos preparando desde hace unas semanas y por fin la hemos liado.

¡Ha sido una auténtica gozada!, unas 40 personas hemos irrumpido a las 12:00h en la sucursal del Inem situada en la calle Sepàºlveda de Barcelona. Allà­ nos aguardaba el ambiente habitual de estos sitios a esta hora: una mezcla de parados (locales y extranjeros) hartos de esperar y perder el tiempo, aburridos, irritados y con cara de asco, llenos de miedo por la crisis. Menos de cinco minutos de baile y cachondeo han sido necesarios para cambiar esos rostros en crisis por caras alegres y sonrientes. Algunos nos han acompaà±ado en el baile, otros aplaudà­an y todos ellos, sin excepcià³n, han agradecido esta ola de luz y de color, este arrebato de alegrà­a y disfrute allà­ donde menos se lo esperaban: en una oficina de trabajo en plena crisis.

Aquà­ os dejamos algàºn documento de esta hazaà±a, ¡qué los disfrutéis!

Video Star: Remi PacMan

Submitted by John Lundberg from circlemakers.org (England’s crop circle makers):


Pac Man, starring Remi Gaillard of nimportequi.com
posted on dailymotion.com by nqtv

http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x9003r

From blog.wired.com: Pac-Man Meets Reality, Chaos Ensues, by Earnest Cavalli, April 16, 2009:

French prankster Remi Gaillard strikes again, this time bringing the dot-chomping, ghost-fleeing action of arcade classic Pac-Man to the real world, much to the confusion and shock of bystanders.

You may recall Gaillard from his previous effort to bring Mario Kart to the streets of France. Like that prank, his newest is a deceptively high-concept gag that elegantly portrays the utterly ridiculous plots and settings of the gaming industry’s most beloved titles.

While the concept is nothing new — how many of you didn’t re-enact Super Mario Bros. as children? — the effort Gaillard puts into his pitch perfect costumes and surprisingly adept recreations of Pac-Man staples is very impressive. He certainly puts Hollywood’s myriad efforts to recreate gaming classics to shame.

World Pillow Fight Day

Update, April 4, 2009, from AP:

  • Pillow Fight Breaks Out on Wall St.
  • Featherweights: Detroit police halt pillow fight

  • From Urbanprankster.com, April 2, 2009:

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    World Pillow Fight Day is Saturday [April 4, 2009]. Check out their site for a list of cities participating around the world. The New York event, organized by Newmindspace, has added a “no feathers” policy. This sounds like a good idea after the recent hubbub in San Francisco.

    Morristown UFO Hoax Revealed

    How We Staged the Morristown UFO Hoax
    by Chris Russo and Joe Rudy
    eSkeptic.com
    April 1, 2009

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    In this week”s eSkeptic, we reveal the behind the scenes workings of that UFO hoax that captured headlines earlier this year. People in and around the Morristown, New Jersey area saw unidentified flying objects, with many of them naturally assuming that these UFOs represented extraterrestrial space craft. As you shall see, there was a rather more terrestrial explanation. In fact, they were helium balloons with flares attached to them, lofted into the sky by Chris Russo and Joe Rudy, in their social experiment on how to create your own media event surrounding UFO sightings.

    Even though this does not mean that all UFO sightings are hoaxes “” of course many represent other terrestrial (instead of extraterrestrial) events such as the planet Venus, military aircraft, weather balloons, advertising planes, and the like (and even, pace Men in Black, swamp gas) “” it does reveal how the human mind connects the dots and fills in the gaps with plausible explanations that often include fantastic tales of alien beings. Enjoy the story and watch the video clips of this amazing hoax!

    Read the whole article here.

    thanks Steff