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Hacking the Highways

Posted by michael on from the script-kiddies-could-learn-a-few-things dept.

cindy writes "LA artist Richard Ankrom got fed up with the terrible signage on the Harbor Freeway. Rather than wait for CalTrans to do something about it, he decided to take matters into his own hands. He carefully made additional signage and added it to an existing freeway sign. The results were so good that no one, including CalTrans, noticed for months! The LA Times has an article including some of the video shot by the artist to document his "crime.""

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  1. Hey I helped a homeless, blind, gay man ... by Buck2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    cross the street where there were no chirping crossing indicators.

    My friends videotaped me doing it.

    It's fucking art.

    Since when did volunteerism become art?

    This reminds me of Tad Williams' "involuntary interactive art" in the Otherland series where artists would stage auto accidents and murders.

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