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Shopdropping: experiments in the shopping aisle
If you're near the San Francisco area, check out Shopdropping: experiments in the shopping aisle, an art exhibit that sounds so cool, I wish we thought of it. Our homies Packard Jennings and Steve Lambert have stuff in the show, which opens this Friday, March 11, at Pond. (If you're not in San Francisco, you've at least got some websites to visit...)
We featured Packard Jennings' fake Pez series of "Fallen Rappers" in the Illegal Art Exhibit, but here you'll see the product of his Wal-Mart prank. Basically, Jennings hand-crafted and packaged Benito Mussolini action figures, placed them on the shelves at Wal-Mart, and then tried to buy one. You can read the full story on his website.
Steve Lambert is one of the contributors to this here blog and mines a similar anticonsumerist vein. He's got lots of neat stuff on Budget Gallery and the Anti-Advertising Agency, which smart people will seek out.
Posted by carrie on 03/06/2005 | Permalink
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I watched the video of the prankster purchasing the Mussolini doll he'd made and snuck into Wal-Mart -- pretty funny. I wonder what his expectations were going in. I guessed the cashier wouldn't know who Mussolini was, but she did. She seemed tickled. At one point she says, I think we should have it. I don't think this is meant as an endorsement of Mussolini's politics, rather that dolls are cute and censorship is bad. What seemed most ironic to me is that he got pretty good service, not that I'm pro-Wal-Mart. (As readers may know, Wal-Mart recently shut down a Canadian store because it voted to go union.)
Posted by: Said Shirazi | Mar 7, 2005 11:53:45 AM
I watched the video of the prankster purchasing the Mussolini doll he'd made and snuck into Wal-Mart -- pretty funny. I wonder what his expectations were going in. I guessed the cashier wouldn't know who Mussolini was, but she did. She seemed tickled. At one point she says, I think we should have it. I don't think this is meant as an endorsement of Mussolini's politics, rather that dolls are cute and censorship is bad. What seemed most ironic to me is that he got pretty good service, not that I'm pro-Wal-Mart. (As readers may know, Wal-Mart recently shut down a Canadian store because it voted to go union.)
Posted by: Said Shirazi | Mar 7, 2005 11:54:52 AM
