Tag: Monopoly
A spokesperson for former Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced yesterday that the wholesale buy up of more than 400 .nyc URLs that might relate to the billionaire mogul was probably excessive and they will be returning most of them shortly. Bloomberg found himself in an embarrassing situation when the list of domain names that his lawyers […]
You’ve gotta hand it to former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, he knows his short-comings and he’s determined to beat you to the joke. At some point after the .nyc name became a thing that exists, the billionaire mogul began buying up as many useful — as well as embarrassing –domains related to his name as he could. According […]
Giant dice flopped through the air last night at Postmasters Gallery, tumbling over a room-sized “Monopolart” game-board. Players moved their paper-mached photo-collaged sculptures of Larry Gagosian, David Zwirner and the blue-chip-like, landing on various famous artists, deciding whether they should buy them or with their giant fake money. For their very important decisions, the players consulted our very important […]
Here’s a cute Monopoly parody game by @troubledmozza, replete with Morrissey references. Brought to our attention by WFMU, the Morrisseyopoly’s locales include “cemetery” and “the fountain.” You can “START: something you couldn’t finish” and progresses to “FIND A JOB: feel miserable” for an appropriately discouraging experience. A few days later, the same account posted another “game” based on Smiths references, this one […]
Forget Monopoly. That’s why we’re all fucked. Unlike Monopoly, the goal of Commonopoly is not the exhaustion, through monopolization, of a virtual stock of goods, but rather the expansion and preservation of a self-propelling sustainable system of recycling, production and distribution. Commonopoly is a project from Big Hope: Miklós Erhardt, Dominic Hislop, Elske Rosenfeld. They refer to […]
