Confidence tricks
From the Media Weekly Independent Newspaper In the Sixties he turned hoaxing from stunt into fine art, and that’s why Joey Skaggs is Mark Borkowski’s mentor
STUNTMANIA…
…Rules OK? From Batman to the Sun Bomber to Otis Ferry & the Chambermen, the newspapers are now gorging themselves on Stunt. This is the outcome of what must have been a feast of secret planning over what the rest of us thought was just the Silly Season. The invasion of the House of Commons,…
Batman
The history of direct action is a proud one, taking in the likes of Peter Tatchell, Greenpeace and Swampy. Many feature very brave individuals � think of those campaigners on their tiny inflatable boat heading out to tackle a huge tanker or whaler. And it does work. The bottom line is that here we are,…
Now this is a great PR stunt
T-shirts equipped with ‘I, Robot’ trailer Coming soon to a T-shirt near you: trailers for “I, Robot,” starring Will Smith. In the never-ending search to capture the attention of consumers bombarded by commercials, billboards and a massive array of other advertisements, 20th Century Fox debuted an innovative new guerilla marketing tactic at E3 last week…
The PR disaster that never was
Benicio Del Toro has confessed he used to steal cars. The Oscar-nominated actor has revealed how he went off the rails after his mother died of hepatitis when he was just nine. The Puerto Rican star admitted: “I would get into trouble. Good healthy trouble – like stealing your neighbour’s car and then getting caught,…
Sexy tap water: it was my idea
My first book launch was for a brilliant and funny book called Glad to Be Grey by Peter Freedman. It was a glorious celebration of everything dull. Frankly it’s time to reprint the book, but I digress. On the week of its publication I staged a number of stunts to generate column inches to try…