Tear Off Signs

A stick can be the right equipment




In thinking about how people interact, I started looking at what people post on bulletin boards. Today I saw a common type of sign that I thought was pretty simple, yet interactive. Tear Off Signs.

You know, those signs where someone is selling something so they make up a "for sale" sign and then write their contact info several times across the bottom in hopes that someone else will tear off their number and give them a ring.

I thought it might be fun to make a few tear off signs of my own. Here's the first round...





Now to print and post!

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The Daily Critter



We built the Daily Critter Box and set it outside the Halle cultural Arts Center just like any other newspaper dispenser you'd see on the streets of Downtown Apex..

The box reads:

The Daily Critter
Insert coin
25 cents Daily
$1.00 Sundays

We sold out in one day!















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The Balloon Garden:




The Balloon Garden is an interactive project created for the Apex Reunion Exhibit at the Halle Cultural Arts Center in Apex, NC.
The garden was made up of about ten helium filled balloons. Inside each balloon was a dollar bill.




Beside the garden was a pair of scissors, tacks and a sign that read:

The Balloon Garden
Each balloon contains a dollar. You may:
Pop a balloon and take a dollar
Cut the string and set a balloon free
Or walk away.










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The Daily Critter




For the student/teacher show opening this week at the Halle Art Center in Apex, NC, I'm creating a Critter Distribution Box. It's like a newspaper box only it distributed Critters. 25 cents weekdays, $1.00 Sundays.

Here are some photos of it in the works...









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Craving Street Art?



The Sky Zonkey

We created this little zonkey and wrote a short note on his tummy. It read:

You Found Me! I was attached to balloons and set adrift from Apex, NC. Please take a photo of me and email it to: zonkeystreet@gmail.com

We took the little zonkey outside and then, as noted, set him adrift on the wind..



We're hoping someone will find him and report back...



He flew pretty high...



UP, Up, up...



over the powerlines..



and then he was gone

See more at Zonkey Street! Or, click here to read about the Adventures of Zonkey

Ian's Website

The Adventures of Zonkey:
Zonkey Street Art

We dropped this zonkey off at the Looking Glass Cafe & Boutique in Carrboro, NC on June 4, 2009 with the following message:

You Found Me!
Please take a photo of me and email it to:
ZonkeyStreet@gmail.com
Then, drop me off at a new location,
anywhere in the world,
so someone else can find me!

you can follow zonkey's adventures on Zonkey Street

We are wondering were he'll show up next!

The Lost Critter: Street Art Project

Lee Krasner: "You've done it, Pollock. You've cracked it wide open."



I imagine that is the sentence every artist would love to hear. The Lost Critter Project certainly is not the project that is cracking anything in the art world wide open. However, on a personal level, it is a step closer to combining my pop expressionist critters with an interactive environment.

The Lost Critter Project




Twenty two critters were created and placed at various location in Downtown Apex, NC. On benches, curbs, on top of newspaper boxes, on brick wall and even tied to poles and street signs.





Each critter held a sign that read:

Help! I'm Lost!
Thank goodness you found me! Please take me back to the Halle Cultural Arts Center, 237 North Salem Street in downtown Apex. I miss my brothers and sisters!




Back at the Halle Cultural Arts Center we place a Lost & Found box with the hopes that some of the critters might be found and returned to the gallery, where it just so happened, we were exhibiting.




To date, 18 of the original 22 have been returned. So keep looking :)