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timbuktu + damn [yellow collection]

Petter Palander — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:01:59 +0000

Timbuktu + Damn, this is the best use I’ve ever had of the Yellow Pages. I’m almost as short as Timbuktu himself, and he has to stand on the speaker to get seen. We didn’t have any spare speakers but 40 Yellow Pages. Some silver tape and we got the perfect stand. 40 cm above everybody else, I’ve never seen a concert as good as this one. Highly recommended to anyone short-legged like me.

Best part!! The police asked if I cold step down so they could see better. That’s what I call Good Use of Yellow Pages. Shortly we’ll present all projects made so far. We’ve got about 36 and counting…

Imagine this. there’s about 800 paper-planes in one single Yellow Pages.

Whatcha gonna do??

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[yellow collection] events & drop_downs

Petter Palander — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:43:22 +0000

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be a [yellow collection] drop_down

Petter Palander — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:36:54 +0000

join in and do like Ugly Duckling / att: , Hi on Life, Astrid och Aporna, minc, studio01. let people drop by with their old, unusable yellow pages, make them into artwork, furniture, wallpaper or whatever you can think of. Spread the word via facebook or twitter, and put this poster, in your window or your blog to let people know you’re a drop_down.

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[yellow collection] & Beach Volley: July the 11th; 10-18

alex — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:32:58 +0000

Malmö Beach Volley Challenger is the year’s coolest competition. Lots of cute girls and guys kicking each others ass in playing ball on professional level.

Our good friends SouthSide House Collective are spinning some fresh house during the whole tournament (10-18) and are most happy to collect your Yellow Brick if you bring it over to the Dj Booth.

Hurry Hurry!

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Sam & Henry + Turning Torso

Petter Palander — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:40:17 +0000

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[yellow collection] feat. SONIC YOUTH

Petter Palander — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:10:26 +0000

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the official [yellow collection] teaser

Petter Palander — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:34:52 +0000

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Say hello to [yellow collection]

Petter Palander — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:40:44 +0000

so what’s this all about?

Take a second, and think about when was the last time you used the printed version of yellow pages to find contact information… or a printed encyclopedia over wikipedia.org when you wondered about something.

Yet, some companies don’t seem to understand. About 10.000.000 copies of yellow pages were pushed out to households & offices in sweden this year.

We’re flabbergasted when they showed up a few weeks ago. We’re presuming, perhaps inappropriately, that you too, wonder what you’ll use it for.

And we mean proper use, not that you used it to prop up a chair or dry the inside of your shoes or something.

We figured, why not do some experimentation? They all lay there, by your entrance, waiting to get used, in ANY way.

_yellow collection_ is an experiment in user-driven public art. We are using the internet to coordinate the collection and the actual execution of this art project. Instead of us making all the decisions on what to do, or build with all these yellow bricks, we’d like to involve you in this fun.

Come and play with us, see what we can do with these. We believe we can make wonders with them.

What would you do with 10 yellow pages? 100 yellow pages, 10.000 yellow pages? Take a second to think about it.

So, if you’ve got a spare yellow brick, don’t throw it away – it can become art.

Now, let’s play some funk!

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