The Yes Men are branching out as a franchise? So poetic.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Olga<[email protected]> wrote: > The Yes Men: How to Hack Corporate Culture > Tips from the culture jamming masters. > > yes-man (noun, plural -men): someone who agrees with everything the > boss says, even if it’s demented, cruel, absurd, or just stupid. > The Yes Men: A group of people who target bosses they don’t work for, > then agree so hard with their targets that their audiences should sit > up and take notice … > > We call ourselves the Yes Men, and our goal is to fix the world. We > even have a new film, coming out in theaters on October 22, that we’ve > called The Yes Men Fix the World. > > We’ll give away the ending: we don’t actually make everything better. > And worse, we’re now spending so much time on the distribution of this > damn film that we don’t even have time to do our own silly antics > anymore. So: please do it for us. Steal our secrets. > > What we do—and what you can do too—is impersonate captains of > industry, infiltrate corporate events, give absurd and revealing > presentations, and then escape to tell the story in the press, > hopefully to the great embarrassment of the target. > > You don’t have to be a James Bond for this. You can be a bad actor, > clumsy, absent minded, and even have stage fright. But what you might > need a fake email address and a business card. For example, if you’re > representing Exxon as Luella Arschenfleck, buy a domain like > exxon-corporate.com and use an address like > [email protected]. (Note: a company like Go Daddy might > cancel your domain name just because it contains a well-known > corporate name, so you might want to use an off-beat, less > stockholder-oriented domain name company.) > > More at GOOD > http://www.good.is/post/the-yes-men-how-to-hack-corporate-culture/ > > -- > Olga P Massanet > ·························· > www.ungravitational.net > virtualfirefly.wordpress.com > www.vimeo.com/ungravitational > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit ***************************** _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
