After parties held in abandoned newspaper boxes

Prankster/artist Jason Eppink threw "Print After Parties" inside newspaper boxes in honor of the the death of print. Very clever. From Eppink's project description:

Abandoned by floundering media conglomerates, thousands of neglected newsracks command valuable real estate on busy street corners across New York City, remnants of diminishing demand and a disintegrating economy. Many have already been reclaimed and transformed by urban alchemists, whether as canvases for stickers and paint or clever conceptual works that turn the once important vessels of information into repositories for garbage.

The Print After Parties continue this line of collaboration with blinking LEDs, disco balls, cut-out silhouettes, and handheld radios. When the last vestiges of a collapsed empire litter the landscape, there's only one thing to do: throw a bumpin' party and dance on the ruins.

Jason Eppink (Thanks, Imaginary Foundation!)

• [jasoneppink]

  Also, the full project report is available here.

• [kmoser]

  If they’re celebrating the death of print they should have set up mock funerals in the boxes.

• [Irregular Shed]

  HOAX DEVICES!

• [jasoneppink]

  @toxonix – I’d never seen that sketch! Thanks for the reference; I’ve updated the Prior Art section.

  @Dapremonster – Hello! Thanks!

• [Dapremonster]

  @jasoneppink, Good to see you’re still creating. The Randumb Show went quickly down hill after you left.

• [toxonix]

  Technomouse was having after parties before most of you had even heard of microdots.

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7844301893858876939#

• [Anonymous]

  Good thing they aren’t doing this in Boston.

  01/31/07 never forget.

• [Anonymous]

  This isn’t the death of print. Print media is hurting, but some newspapers are in great shape. These boxes are not empty because print media is dead. They are empty because the flight-by-night publications they served went bankrupt or tanked completely due to the economy, not because everybody is on the internet as this article implies.

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    They are empty because the flight-by-night publications they served went bankrupt or tanked completely due to the economy, not because everybody is on the internet as this article implies.

    They went out of business because the personal ads and hooker hotlines that constituted their revenue stream went online.

• [bbonyx]

  The word is “foundering”

  Flounder is a fish.

  Look it up.

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    Do you know what that big red quote mark stands for?

    Besides, floundering also means flopping around like a dying fish out of water.

• [jasoneppink]

  Thanks for the shout out! The inimitable Posterchild was the other half of the event planning committee.

• [PurityObscurity]

  How do I get to dance in one of those boxes?