As covered in Boing Boing, who covered the tale of the Bacardi comercial that stole its concept from the Cacophony event of the Salmon Running upstream of the runners at the San Francisco Bay to Breakers.
Category Archives: Media
Tom Kennedy Art Car Evangelist
Tom Kennedy evangelized art cars all over the US (building more the 40 of them), and was fundamental to the creation of the Orange show in Houston, Texas. The Orange show is now the largest art car event in the world with 200,000 attendees. This video is from Weird TV on Tom. As the bumper sticker says: Never Forget Tom Kennedy. He brought many great art works to this world, always fun to hang out with, was politically active for positive causes like Bikes to Bosnia, and achieved an incredible amount in his time.
Tom Kennedy 1960-2009
Helco at Burning Man 1996 on Weird TV
The 1996 theme at Burning Man was Helco – with the elaborate staged event organized by Kal Spellitch and many many helpers. This Weird TV segment gives a inside lok at the art and mayhem of that year .
Helco – SEEMEN performance at BM 1996
Drive by Shooting Range on Weird TV
In the Black Rock Desert the Drive by Shooting Range took place, Weird TV was there to document the fun combination of art object destruction and hand held artillery.
The Cacophony Drive-by Shooting Range at BM 1994
Zippy the Pinhead Protest to Restore the Cartoon at the San Francisco Chronicle
The great Zippy the Pinhead protest to restore the Bill Griffith cartoon to the San Francisco Chronicle, led by Bishop Joey and the 1st Church of the Last Laugh as documented by Weird TV.
The Great San Francisco Zippy Protest