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Operation: Mindfuck

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21:51 / 25.02.05

I would like to hear how other people go about messing with other people's heads. Do you write on money? Public Ads? Public washrooms? If so, what messages do you write?

Can you think of ways to kick it up a notch? Sky writting?
Could anyone lend me a plane?

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:23 / 26.02.05

"It's like reality TV, but instead of being on TV it cracks open reality"

Genius! You are best parody ever!

07:47 / 19.03.05

i stick stickers up and place mini essays in magazines and library books.
i'm a pussy, i admit. but it is fun.

19:36 / 19.03.05

Get yourself and six friends inside a clothing store and don't acknowledge each other. When timing is a appropriate, fake a hit-and-run on a pedestrian. Upon hearing the screech of tires and seeing someone lying injured in the parking lot, all seven of you rip open your shirts to reveal Super(wo)man costume, ready to spring into action. Argue with each other over who has dibs while pedestrian lays dying.

Scram before the police arrive.

All Acting Regiment

12:30 / 20.03.05

Has anyone ever got caught for doing this sorta stuff, and if so what happened?

14:27 / 20.03.05

In my more childish years I planted an anarchistic manifesto at the local supermarket. I glowed for days

20:16 / 20.03.05

I occasionally like to subvert the comfortable bourgeois lifestyles of people I know by writing their phone numbers down on the wall in the Gents in pubs, with suitably far-out claims with regard to what their capable of, gymnastically. You, uh... Well it's not a good idea to do this too often, let's put it that way.

01:16 / 22.03.05

Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes! I love it. Messing with peoples heads gets me so HOT!

My goal is to reclaim all toilettes as Private Space. What is a public toilette? And why do marketers feel free to put ads in my face while i piss? If an actual person tried to get up in my face like that as i took a piss, i would take recourse to violence, pacifist or no. We cannot let them get away with it any longer. I herby declare all so called "public toilettes" to be legitimate zones of ideological warfare. We gots to take our privacy back!

Today a bathroom ad really got me. It was the default ad, an ad for the ad company ZOOM MEDIA (info phone line # 1 800 437 1834 in Canada. Somone please help me harass their operator). It said "Entertainment ads in the bathroom? At least you have great seats! Zoom Media; sure beats tiles"

No it doesn't MOTHERFUCKER!

someone had already placed X's across the ads over both urinals, but it wasn't enough. I was irationally driven to ad "FUCK OFF" and "Insult to human Dignity" to each.

Still not enough. I went into the stall. I pulled out my marker. i drew a large TV on the door. I put a webcam on top, aimed at the toilette. some rabit ears. On the screen I drew an Illuminatti pyramid, and wrote "could I have a few moments to sell your shit back to you, or did I catch you at a bad time?"

I write cryptic occult messages where ever I go. as long as its wierd enough to make someone stop and think for 2 seconds it works.

Here's a good one: FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, PUT MARTHA STEWART BACK IN JAIL.
Or, on an ad: THIS IS YOUR TRUE DESIRE, THIS DREAMING IS A NIGHTMARE, THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING. I got a millon of these.

I like to let my discordian roots show when I MindFuck. Nothing like pointing out fnords to make me feel better.
Turn Toilettes into discordian altars. HAIL ERIS!

Some folks are more familiar with what i'm refering to as Culture Jamming, but it's also known as ontological terrorism, or terror art, under the teachings of Hakim Bey.
He has some really wacked out pranks, designed to stike fear of the unknown into the target. Notably, the Malay Black Djinn Curse.

The discordians are kicking it up a notch too, to something like a cross between jihad and a knock-knock joke called the Babylon project. Psychic Guerilla warfare is fun!

01:20 / 22.03.05

Oh, and legba, rule #1 is 'Don't get caught', because if you do you will get in trouble. the punishment meeted out to you will be exponentialy proportional to the effectiveness and ambition of your MindFuck.

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:32 / 22.03.05

Sometimes I feel I am too hard on my fellow man. Other times I wish I had an army of robot monkeys with laser eyes.

Regrettable Juvenilia

09:37 / 22.03.05

Every morning when I get out of bed I repeat the following to myself with a smile:

"It's like reality TV, but instead of being on TV it cracks open reality."

It is my mantra.

ONLY NICE THINGS

09:46 / 22.03.05

I have brilliantly subverted the dominant paradigm by drawing a childish picture of a willie on toilet doors. With some balls. Soon the empire shall fall, and I will be King Anarchist.

20:42 / 04.04.05

Hause, that is as valid a manifestation of Operation:Mindfuck as any, but how much does it fuck with the mind in question. Sadly for the patriarchal system of domination, the penis doodle has lost much of it's shock value due to dilution from widespread use. Try upgrading, maybe to a penis gently penetrating between the sensual folds of a human cerebral cortex?

I found a good one. A group called Improveverywhere pulled a beauty of a stunt, the kind of thing people say "hey, wouldn't it be funny if someone..." but someone is always someone else and it remains a fantasy.

Well, IE staged a 'timewarp' in a starbucks where a half dozen actors repeted a five minute cycle of minutely interacting actions, and were uninterupted for an hour.
People keyed to what was going on, but didn't confront them. they did get very, very, freaked out though. "It's like the Twilight Zone"

Improv Everywhere is an acting troupe,apparently do stuff like this all the time.

21:49 / 04.04.05

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:27 / 05.04.05

Hause, that is as valid a manifestation of Operation:Mindfuck as any, but how much does it fuck with the mind in question. Sadly for the patriarchal system of domination, the penis doodle has lost much of it's shock value due to dilution from widespread use. Try upgrading, maybe to a penis gently penetrating between the sensual folds of a human cerebral cortex?

He was taking the piss. His idea doesn't fuck with the mind in question. Would you like to explain how yours does?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:22 / 05.04.05

Just for hir last post, I think people should spray-paint "olulabelle rocks" everywhere they possibly can.

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:54 / 05.04.05

they did get very, very, freaked out though. "

Rag w

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:02 / 05.04.05

eek must just be a

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:03 / 05.04.05

dark tunnel of fear and agony for those NORMALS, mustn't it?

Tryphena Absent

08:24 / 06.04.05

Other times I wish I had an army of robot monkeys with laser eyes.

Really? Robot monkeys? I just wish I had laser eyes.

By the way Olulabelle, I love the colour of that blue pen. Is it turquoise?

11:02 / 06.04.05

Turquoise felt tip, even better in real life. Nicked from my son. Very subversive.

Tryphena Absent

11:04 / 06.04.05

Gosh, what brand is it? I've always wanted a turquoise felt tip?!

11:10 / 06.04.05

Ah, I could wax lyrical about turquoise felt tips for a great many pages. I don't know which brand it is, but I shall check this evening. He has a great many of the things.

Do you have any felt tips Nina?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

11:17 / 06.04.05

I've got some really good felt tips. One set is ordinary and waterbased but the other set is special and can write on ANYTHING! I use them to label my CDs that I burn after I get music from the Internets (sticking it to the MAN!!!).

Tryphena Absent

11:28 / 06.04.05

I don't have any felt tips because I still can't colour in between the lines and it made me sad but I think perhaps I could be persuaded by the myriad colours that have appeared since I last owned a set. My dear mother never replaced the felt tips on time so I'm afraid my practice was rather interrupted by felt tips that scrawled across the page rather than making beautiful solid blocks of blue and red and green and all of the other colours.

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:48 / 06.04.05

Did anyone else use to take the bits of ink-sodden felt out from inside the pens and use them to make their own art, in a way that subverted the dominant paradigm of orthodox pen use? It used to make your hands very messy but that's what you get when you do things in the crazy chaotic spirit of ERIS!

12:02 / 06.04.05

No, but I quite often chew the tip of mine and then spit coloured spit on the walls of public places. I'm so fucking subversive, me.

Tryphena Absent

12:09 / 06.04.05

Hmmm... I sometimes get felt tip on my hands if, y'know, I'm borrowing them from someone who actually has some. Is that subversive or just accidental???

Less searchable M0rd4nt

12:24 / 06.04.05

What's your favourite colour of felt tip? My favourites are purple (the colour of majesty, like my majestic soul) red (the colour of the blood that spills from my broken heart) and black (the colour of my tenebruous and poetic despair. Nobody understands me. Normals don't listen to me. Everyone runs away when I try to read them my poetry. Life is pointless).

12:27 / 06.04.05

Nina, it's subversive if you, like, nick them, like, off your friends kids or something. It's even more subversive if you, like, nick them and then, like, use them all up writing CRAZY MINDFUCK STUFF ON WALLS and then, like, just put them back without telling.

And wouldn't this be cool; what if, like, I nick them off my son, you nick them off me, then, like, you use them up writing stuff that sticks it to the marketeers in ideological warfare zones and then, like, we just secretly PUT THEM BACK.

That would be a crazy mindfucking subversive plot. That'd show them. Yeah.

Tryphena Absent

12:31 / 06.04.05

My favourite colour felt tip pen is definitely turquoise. That is because it reminds me of the sea, which reminds me that we're all drowning in our own sorrow and the bile that we aim at the world. It's like, we're so horrible, humans are so horrible that our lungs can't even breathe anymore and the turquoise of the felt tip is closing above our heads and we can't break through. Mmmm-hmmmm.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

12:37 / 06.04.05

The turquoise is beautiful. It reminds me of the tears I cry every night. Alone. In the dark. Of my parent's basement.

nedrichards is confused

12:46 / 06.04.05

You closed minded fools, stop looking at the representational paradigm and open up to smell. You could start by gently penetrating a scented pen between the sensual folds of your human cerebral cortex?

My favourite smell for a scented pen is chocolate.

Tryphena Absent

12:49 / 06.04.05

The turquoise pen holds the scent of the SEA! The sea in which we all drown. It is the stench of human sweat.

nedrichards is confused

12:50 / 06.04.05

But of course the sweat itself does not smell. The smell is the excreata of the bacteria that feast upon the salts contained therin.

I think the parallels are obvious.

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