Crane deployment photo album

Cranevasion

Cranes and the City

Crane perched by the subway escalator























Cranes at the Eaton's Centre during the Christmas rush

Porn crane at the entrance of a porn store

Free Advertising!

This mini-article appeared yesterday evening, and was posted to Facebook a bunch of times. Although it gets quite a few facts wrong, it is free advertising for us and Sin-Dex. We did get a few referrals from it right away.

Cranerific

Even though each member in our group has been disseminating cranes for over a week, we decided that we needed a big crane push right before the deadline. We created a group on facebook called Crane on the Brain, and also created an event to accompany the group. The event,"The Epic Paper Crane Hunt of 2007" was scheduled for Tuesday, November 27 @9:00am. People were encouraged to find cranes all around campus. For our part, we continuously distributed the cranes for several hours to keep up.

When we arrived at the SLC, we found the remains of the Gory Survey demonstration already subverted by the sin-dex group. Even though we had not received permission from the professor to sabotage any other group's work (as if you need permission to subvert an ad...isn't that kind of the point?), we had already been replacing posters from other groups and adding our own special additions to the work we found scattered around. The large display was very visible, and it looked really cool with all the cranes on it! Photos coming soon!

The Cranes are Coming!

Thursday, November 22 was the official start of Crane Dropping. We decided to start out slowly and just place cranes and posters here and there. We will be making a big crane drop and having a big crane event around the same time to make sure it is fresh in everyone's mind. Wherever we dropped cranes, we took a picture to document the different places. Keep checking here often, more pictures to come!

Oragami 101

Before we started this project, Kevin was the only one who knew how to make paper cranes. But before long, we all knew how to do it! We even recruited others to the process, trying to make as many cranes as humanly possible!

We made cranes for almost two weeks before we started distributing them, and we made them out of a bunch of different materials so that we would have a variety of cranes.

We took the materials everywhere we went and folded at all times of the day. During car/bus trips, birthday parties, class time....we were on a mission. The result: a lot of paper cranes. An official count will be coming soon...once we make the final tally.

Comment Thread to discuss Banner Project

We are currently reformatting our blog to make way for the Banner Project. We will be updating the look and style of the blog to better suit Dane Watkin's vision for Moral Meter. Come back soon!

Asha and Marcia: Moral Metre Logo

We realize that the font isn't perfect yet....something to work on. It is meant to convey the instability of morality through its shaky structure.

Updates and Ads

I was doing some homework and reading for this week, when I realized that I had forgotten to post my final subverted advertisement. Here it is. After the suggestions in class, I made the Pepsi logo look more like someone had used a stencil to paint over the cereal box, and I changed the black font. I also changed the position of the billboard, making the corn field more prominent and the idea of a billboard more recognizable.

On another note, I played tour-guide to some friends from France this past week, and on Friday we went to Toronto. They loved seeing the CN tower and all that good touristy stuff, but we actually spent a surprising amount of time looking at billboards and advertisements. After discussing the assignment, we took a few pictures to add to the blog. This whole process has got me thinking totally differently now!

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