Craig's Other List: Guerrilla Art Project With a Twist

By Queuebot in Everything Else, Pictures on Mar 6, 2009 at 11:15 pm

Bizarre notices have been popping up on lampposts around Melbourne. On the surface they seem like legitimate notices you’d see on community noticeboards: items for sale, lost and found, and invitations to join groups with those who have similar interests. But once you start reading them, you realise that something is amiss. The item for sale is the lamppost the note is attached to (“Meet me at midnight. You may need a spade.”). The lost item is a sweatband. (Reward for its return? “We could go and see a movie. G or GA only.”) The found item is a free newspaper with a half-done crossword (“So you should be able to identify it”). Oh, and they are all signed off by someone named Craig.

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  1. Johnny Cat
    Mar 7th, 2009 at 12:02 am

    It's teh Low Men! Trying to break those Beams.

  3. Chad
    Mar 7th, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    They all have a "meet me at X time" statement in them. I bet the second half of the project is photographing/filming the people that show up at those times.

  5. AP
    Mar 8th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    This "Guerrilla Art Project" is a rip off - it's the exact the same concept, typeface, and words of a project started in Brooklyn, NY several months ago. "Craig" should get a bit more imaginative and stop taking credit for other people's work. It was brilliant the first time around, not the second.

  6. Woofli
    Mar 8th, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    Someone in Australia stole this idea. These were all around NYC and people were talking about them. The originals were signed from "Chris".

  7. westonculture
    Mar 8th, 2009 at 7:06 pm

    That assumes that "Chris" and "Craig" are not the same person(s). ;-)
    I'd love to see the NY ones. And I wonder what the NY project thinks of their work turning up (hacked) in Australia.

  8. Scooter
    Mar 9th, 2009 at 11:13 am

    Johnny cat, I was thinking the same thing.

  9. Woofli
    Mar 11th, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    Here's a link to the originals, made by NYC writer Todd Lamb, they've been posted around New York since last year:

    http://web.mac.com/lambtodd/iWeb/todd%20lamb%20/Todd%20Lamb%20Notes%20 From%20Chris.html

  10. Frank Lombrino
    Mar 12th, 2009 at 9:36 am

    I've seen these notes signed from chris around New yorkCity for a long time. I see em on the way to work. Too bad some guy in australia ripped off the idea. fun stuff. i always wondered who would do them

  11. Fleeced
    Mar 12th, 2009 at 7:34 pm

    "Too bad some guy in australia ripped off the idea"

    I don't think it's bad at all - it's a funny idea, and makes people smile... the more cities that benefit, the better.

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