25 + 90 points
Reverse Shoplifting by suzy zus
December 1st, 2007 7:56 AM
I absolutely love the idea of this task, even though I am not really sure if I got the completion right... please tell me what you think.
First I wanted to leave something in a store that could actually be bought there but was strangely out of place, just a little, to produce an odd feeling of 'something's not quite right here'. But then I decided that I'd rather make somebody feel really good (which I think everyone needs every once in a while, especially in late-November grey Vienna).
Women's magazines leave women feel terrible about themselves so why not buy a magazine and take some countermeasures?
First I wanted to leave something in a store that could actually be bought there but was strangely out of place, just a little, to produce an odd feeling of 'something's not quite right here'. But then I decided that I'd rather make somebody feel really good (which I think everyone needs every once in a while, especially in late-November grey Vienna).
Women's magazines leave women feel terrible about themselves so why not buy a magazine and take some countermeasures?
18 vote(s)
5
JTony Loves Brains
5Black MegaBee
5Loki
5Spidere
5C.M. Gonzalez
5Charlie Fish
5Ben يامين
5Burn Unit
5Lincøln
5Fonne Tayne
5Monotony
5teucer
5Listener
5Lola Boom Boom
5babe
5Pip Estrelle
5Xena
5Angel Mois
Terms
(none yet)7 comment(s)
posted by Loki on December 1st, 2007 11:25 AM
JTony took the words right out of my mouth. (Or at least the concepts.) Very interesting.
posted by C.M. Gonzalez on December 2nd, 2007 3:45 AM
Forsooth. Very different take on this taske, but I like it.
posted by Charlie Fish on December 2nd, 2007 4:39 AM
Yes, assuming this was bought and your notes were read, that is an excellent completion.
posted by Monotony on February 1st, 2008 1:14 PM
This would have worked better as object annotation but great none the less.
posted by bunny dragon on February 26th, 2008 11:45 AM
Interesting.
As a nitpick, it doesn't fit the task, but I'm not really a big believer in aligning precisely with a task. I certainly wouldn't want to discourage you from doing interesting stuff solely because it fails to match a task's parameters.
I like it. The take is a little different - in a way it is more of an annotation of an existing product and I'd have liked to have seen you alter the magazine in more significant and permanent ways, but the thought was there, and I like the subversion of the magazine's message.