Category Archives: guerilla

at mit, hacking is a way of life – not just hacking into computers and phones, but hacking in general as a way of creating. i found this repository of all hacks since 1989, including hacks of the subway, robots, vending machines, skylights, the dome, and of course harvard.

for a few weeks i’ve been following gail orenstein’s flickr photo stream, not because she’s an old friend i’m trying to catch up on, but because she uses it as a sort of graphic political blog and discussion forum. it’s interesting and often sexual but most of all a great hack for a site that […]

seeing this clever subversive hilton advertisement by vinchen brings to the foreground an idea i’ve been toying with for a couple of weeks – framing graffiti – or how to make guerilla art acceptable. andy warhol once said that people don’t really like art, but it’s hung very nicely in museums. by the same token, […]

when i saw philip de vellis’ anti-hillary ad on youtube i realized for the first time that user-generated content could transform politics. his pro-obama spoof is a carefully crafted overlay of the robotic clinton onto the orwellian world of apple’s ad. having been viewed at least 3 million times, it is just as influential as […]

as for new trends in anti-products, i re-visited limor fried’s site today and reminisced on my favorite project of hers, the media-sensitive sunglasses (above). these glasses are designed to filter out television signals, so that you can live in peace, as part of her “social defense mechanisms” thesis – another is a cigarette pack-sized jammer […]