“Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 60 missions involving hundreds of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.”.

“We’re out to prove that a prank doesn’t have to involve humiliation or embarrassment; it can simply be about making someone laugh, smile, or stop to notice the world around them.”. (Charlie Todd)

See, for example: Even Better Than The Real Thing and Cell Phone Symphony.Thumbs up.
Above: agent Shelktone (Nate Shelky) and agent Whines (Will Hines) in Suicide Jumper (2005).

“These robot sculptures are made form a mixture of found objects which are both old and new. The materials are wood, metal, bakelite, glass, plastic, rubber and paint. Each robot takes about a month to build. They are not meant to be a toy. New robots are always in the works.”. Bennett Robot Works, by Gordon Bennet.

Right: Galileo, ©Bennet Robot Works.

“Stephen Barnwell has been an artist and illustrator for over twenty years. His work has appeared in numerous books, magazines, websites, gaming products, films, and plays.”.

“A recognized artist in the moneyart genre.”. See, for example, his Dream-Dollars.

“Yugo Nakamura is a creative director, designer and engineer exploring various forms of interactive system in digital and networked environment. Yugo has exhibited and lectured in Asia, U.S.A and Europe. Some artworks from his personal website yugop.com have recenly been shown at Center Pompidou (Paris), Kunstlerhaus (Vienna), Design Museum (London). His commercial works have received many international awards including Cannes Lions, OneShow, Clio Award, and NY ADC.”.

Above: Clockblock 1.0, web clock and screensaver, detail.

See also: Industrious clock.

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“The museum itself is located in my home.
It is about 40×50 cm big and has 33 compartments.
This website is a representation of what is currently in the museum, i.e. the compartments.”.

“Choose the object (size about 4 x 4 x 8 cm) you want to donate to the Museum of Temporary Art.

Please note: any objects bigger than the specified sizes, as well as postcards or e-mail-contributions cannot be exhibited as they don’t fit in the compartments.”.

Paintings, sculpture, photography and drawings: Blum & Poe presents Yoshitomo Nara. The Stephen Friedman Gallery introduces Nara’s artwork: “His mixed-media paintings, sculptures and doodle-like drawings on the backs of envelopes combine musical references with iterations of kawaii, or cute. Not only does his work resonate with an international language of youthful alienation, anger and bemusement, but it also appeals to adults who maintain a connection with their childhood.”.

Above: Daydreamer (2003), pastel, acrylic, and colored pencil on paper. (Blum & Poe gallery)

Art-e-zine: patterns of paper, photos, paints, inks, stamps, altered books. Play with art. Don’t try explain.

Right: Sew Vintage Punk by Charlotte Kemsley (detail).

The online gallery of his works.”I have been on the Fiat Panda with Frisoni and many times on my Fiat Panda: i have seen the traffic jam, cars braking in front of you, the town’s avenues, sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly.
I have never seen them as paintings.
Frisoni’s paintings gave something to my life, to my traffic jam, to my reality; he changed my eyes, he converted them somehow: now, after i saw his paintings, i will not drive my Panda in the same way, nor in Rimini nor everywhere else.”.
(Gianfranco Lauretano, …on Frisoni’s Panda)