Sunday, April 08, 2007

Next Stop...The Study...The Study...



{Courtesy New York Magazine} F-train commuters were in for a pleasant surprise this morning, thanks to a "guerilla art" group called the House of Malcontents. The all-female quartet boarded the third car of a train at Coney Island in the wee hours and turned the weathered space into a living room — laying down welcome mats and rugs, hanging flowers from the poles and curtains over the windows, replacing MTA safety posters with paintings and family photos, and turning overhead billboards into mock bookshelves. (Authors represented ranged from Albert Camus to Zora Neale Hurston.) Officially, it was a commentary on how much time Gothamites spend on the subway, but leader Ellen Moynihan admits there was another goal. "We wanted people to talk about something at work besides what they watched on TV," she said. Critics included one unamused cop and a woman irate about the cost to advertisers, but by midtown, people started whipping out camera phones. "It's adorable," legal secretary Beatrice Beccari said. "It'd be nice to have more [of this] instead of ads for dentists and cosmetic surgery. Naturally, most riders pretended they saw nothing. — Michael Y. Park

2 Comments:

Blogger Cowboy said...

What kind of an effin' a-hole feels sorry for advertisers?

The world needs more stories like these. Every Monday morning I have to suffer through the workplace idiot's t.v. recaps. Too much t.v. kills the brain. That's why I'm always bloggin.

4/09/2007 11:56 PM  
Blogger neil said...

Probably a stuck up New York Ad Exec...both clueless and oblivious. I'm sure in a few months she'll be ripping the idea off for one of her clients.

Those T.V. recaps are the worst...a generation of mindless zombies looking to a glowing square for something, anything...and then sharing it around the water trough. Haven’t had TV in almost 2 months and aside from the odd time when I want to just veg out, I don’t miss it at all.

4/10/2007 5:21 PM  

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