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Subway Yearbook Photos - M.A.P. WINNER

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Winner of the Audience Award in the Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

For our latest Improv Everywhere mission, we installed a photography studio on a random subway car. We claimed that the MTA had hired us to take photos of every single person who rides the subway and that we'd be producing a yearbook at the end of the year. Most people were happy to pose for us, and the resulting photos show just how diverse New York subway riders can be.

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page

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Improv Everywhere: Subway Yearbook Photos
Improv Everywhere sets up a photo studio on the subway.

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Cardboard - M.A.P. RUNNER UP
Runner Up in the Grand Prize category of the Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

An animated short about street art characters in the city.

Artist: Sjors Vervoort.

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page

02:12

CHINESE WORDS.WAR
A war about chinese words

03:10

MINISTRY MESSIAH
One day I woke up from my deepest dream...My dream was reality.

06:38

Love Misconceived
Young, playful Miu follows The Creature to his home and attempts to befriend him. When they manage to communicate, an unusual type of love develops between them, so unusual that it can barely be grasped by them, and cannot be conceived by the surrounding environment.

02:51

Improv Everywhere: No Underpants Subway Ride
In Improv Everywhere's most daring mission yet, over 1,000 people rode the subway without underwear or pants in New York City. Their annual No Pants Subway Ride has been a tradition for years, and they decided it was time to up the ante. Riders spread out over four different subway lines to surprise and delight everyday New Yorkers riding the train. (And yes, we regret to inform you that this mission was in fact Improv Everywhere's April Fools Mission 2010. No genitals were exposed in the making of this video. But some unflattering flesh-colored underwear may have been worn).

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Improv Everywhere: No Pants 2010
On Sunday, January 10th, 2010 over 5000 people took off their pants on subways in 44 cities around the world. In New York, Improv Everywhere's 9th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride had over 3000 participants, spread out over six meeting points and ten subway lines.

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Improv Everywhere: Uncensored - No Underwear Subway...
Behind the pixels: For April Fools Day 2010, Improv Everywhere uploaded a new video that made it look like they had staged a No Underwear Subway Ride (in the tradition of their annual No Pants Subway Ride event). The video was a hoax. Although they claimed that 1000 people had exposed their genitals on the train, they actually just filmed 20 actors wearing skin-colored underwear, and then pixelated the footage to make them look naked.

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PAM: Wonderland
Runner Up in the Grand Prize category of the Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

Space takes on multiple definitions. For me, I understand space as the sum of cultural and social forces that act on me. Through the space, my body feels all changes around me instantly and intimately. When I move from Korea to the United States, my body became a gauge that felt my displacement and recognized not only the conformity inflicted on me in the United States, but it also allowed me to deconstruct the rule from my hometown that I had taken for granted as normal. In my video piece, I attempt to convey the feeling of displacement and conformity by acting of walking. I perform walking forward and other people seem to be walking backward. However, I was walking backward in the real scene and I made it simply reversed. The space of being neither here following correct rule nor there following incorrect rule is precisely what I try to convey in this video. I finished NYC Time Square version and will make Portugal version next week. It will continue in several cities.

Artist: Hye Yeon Nam.

This video forms part of A Light at the End of the Tunnel, an epic video art trilogy about the human condition which includes seminal works by 30 international emerging artists, and was curated by Perpetual Art Machine (www.perpetualartmachine.com).

The show debuted at Scope Basel 2010 (June 15 - 19, Kaserne), while premiering simultaneously on Babelgum.

To find out more, visit babelgum.com/newvideoart.

To find out more about the Metropolis Art Prize, visit babelgum.com/metropolisartprize.

04:11

Martha Cooper, Graffiti Icon
Legendary graffiti photographer Martha Cooper tells RJ how she started, what she loves about it and where she thinks it's going.

For more videos from the RJ's Street Art London series, visit babelgum.com/rj

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