Culture jamming

Running the numbers, portraits of consumption

Running the numbers, portraits of consumption

Chris Jordan’s incredible gallery of consumption culture (this skeleton is made from 200,000 packs of cigarettes) artist’s statment – This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans […]

The 01-31-07 memorial kit

The 01-31-07 memorial kit

Never forget 1-31-07 with this memorial kit from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories – You know what it is. You know you want it. Soldering and batteries (three D cells) required. Kit description: A no-compromise top quality electronic art project. Easy through-hole construction. Basic soldering skill required. You provide tools (solder + iron, clippers). Assembly time: […]

TV-B-Gone tampon case

TV-B-Gone tampon case

I had some extra real estate in my tampon case, so I assembled my new TV-B-Gone kit inside. I pulled out the button and aimed it slightly downward, so it can be activated by items on a table like the base of a wine glass or silverware, for going incognito in a restaurant. – Link. […]

Giant white glove

Giant white glove

The white glove tracking project has an interesting outcome, Michael Jackson meets Mickey Mouse… – On May 4th, 2007, we asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson’s white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. 72 hours later 125,000 gloves had been located. wgt_data_v1.txt (listed below) is […]