Andrew Tider and I teamed up for this effort to highlight crimes masquerading as commerce.
Visit TheCapturedProject.com
Press:Guardian / Good / Mic / Hyperallergic / Artnet / BoingBoing / Gothamist / ATTN / Vice / FastCo / SF Chronicle / SF Weekly / The Independent
Andrew Tider and I had a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden made, then surreptitiously cemented it atop a Brooklyn memorial to those killed during the American Revolution. Though confiscated by police, it sparked international debate over whether Snowden's actions were honorable, and eventually found a home in the esteemed Brooklyn Museum.
Press: Animal / Forbes / NY Times / NY Times (again) / Washington Times / Gizmodo / NY Post / NY Daily News / WSJ / Mashable / USA Today / Time / Gothamist / Sydney Morning Herald / Good / Bkylner / Wired / / / Wikipedia
In March of 2011, Hunter Fine and I laid traps for various subcultures to protect neighborhoods from infestation.
Press: Gawker / Time / Gothamist / Village Voice / AdWeek / Laughing Squid / New York Magazine / DCist
After anonymously painting these lanes around NYC during the summer of 2010, I revealed my identity through a collaboration with Improv Everywhere where we "enforced" the lanes
A website that only lets very special people in, and questions the meaning of fame in an online world. Lots of celebs dropped by. Justin Bieber's team even contacted us about having a record release in one of the more "exclusive" rooms. If the deepest room is reached, a special event is triggered. Made with Chris Baker, Mike Lacher, and Doug Loffredo.
Press: NY Mag Approval Matrix / Boing Boing / Neatorama / PSFK / Trendhunter / Oh So Coco / Business Insider / GQ / Mother Jones / Mashable
Created with Ivan Cash, Luis Peña, and Rally Interactive.
Project archived at SelflessPortraits.com
Press: Fast Company / Business Insider / Gizmodo / Mashable / BuzzFeed / Yahoo Site of the Day / Slate / Creativity / PSFK
Celebrities and media personalities have been “dying off” due to a wide range of misconduct. Cancel culture is real. You can be famous one day, infamous the next.
On Oscars night in NYC, we staged our own version of an ‘In Memoriam’— remembering industry heavies who have been “cancelled.”
The memoriam began with a larger-than-life projection on Houston & Bowery in NYC and featured fallen heroes like Kevin Spacey, Lori Loughlin, and of course, Harvey Weinstein.
There, I fixed it.
Press: Gothamist / Hyperallergic / NY Post / NY Daily News / Huffington Post / Bloomberg / Digg / Boing Boing
Press: Gawker / ABC TV / Gothamist / NY Observer / New York Magazine / Metro UK
People claimed they didn't care about the NSA's domestic spying. Then Andrew Tider and I spied on them (as unofficial) NSA subcontractors. All of a sudden, they cared.
Visit WeAreAlwaysListening.com (offline now, sorry folks)
Press: Wired / Guardian / NY Times / Vice / Gothamist / Mashable / Fast Company / Der Spiegel / Good / Hyperallergic / Intl. Business Times / Zeit
Co-written by Jim Therkalsen, this was my goodbye to R/GA video back in 2010. Originally sent only to R/GA staff, within hours it wound up on popular blogs and Twitter, and was seen all over the world.
Made with Chris Baker, Jeff Greenspan, and Doug Loffredo.
Visit TheLikeableConstitution.com
Visit TheLikeableBible.com
The Bush Booth was never meant to bash Bush (too easy), as entrants could praise the listening George if they wanted. Instead, it offered a fun reminder that elected officials are here to listen to us more than we're here to listen to them.
Thousands believe massacres like Sandy Hook are staged by "crisis actors."
In an effort to surface the "facts" widely spread by these believers online, James Lipton (of Inside the Actors Studio fame) sits down with one of the most talked-about crisis actors of the day.
Hidden in plain sight, somewhere in Manhattan.
This was disruptive way to spread a message on Facebook (back when Facebook had a "wall.") You and friends would make coordinated posts on someone's Facebook wall. Once you all had a block of posts, each person changes their profile picture to a letter, spelling out anything you want. We "hacked" Sara Palin's FB page, amongst others. Created with Chris Baker and Danny Adrain.
Press: NY Times / Mashable / Daily Beast / Adweek / The Blaze / Complex / Viral Art
This was the first short film I ever made (2004). Chosen for inclusion in the One Club’s Creative Showcase and The Upright Citizens Brigade’s monthly film series in both NY and LA. Created with Hunter Fine.
Chris Baker and I (with a little help from some oil painters in China) imagined how people may have photobombed each other back in the day. Oil on Canvas
The never-ending dating options served up by apps like Tinder make it easy to keep moving on to the next person Yet after all the swiping, Americans divorce at a rate near 50%. If we had fewer options would we be less dismissive and find love faster? Hindur aims to find out.
Get hitched at Hindur.com
In 2006, I collected a bunch of “character” night lights and gathered together some NYC improvisors. We fully improvised the dialogue as these personalities, then used simple stop-motion and miniature sets to bring their worlds to life.
Some other projects I’ve done.
