Comments on: Invisible homeless man http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827393 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827393 So invisible or not this guy is hanging out naked? So invisible or not this guy is hanging out naked?

]]> By: Cristian Raicu http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-831748 Cristian Raicu Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-831748 Hey, how about the copyright of this idea? May as use that in city in Europe, for example in Spain ? Hey, how about the copyright of this idea?
May as use that in city in Europe, for example in Spain ?

]]> By: kridje http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827399 kridje Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827399 This is so fake! It's probably photoshopped or something. This is so fake! It’s probably photoshopped or something.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827402 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827402 If anyone's interested, this was made last September by Boston-area art student Sean Haire, and it was placed by the Reservoir T-stop near Cleveland Circle. If anyone’s interested, this was made last September by Boston-area art student Sean Haire, and it was placed by the Reservoir T-stop near Cleveland Circle.

]]> By: Geoff http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827406 Geoff Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827406 Is this the result of city councilors everywhere wishing the homeless problem would 'just disappear'? Is this the result of city councilors everywhere wishing the homeless problem would ‘just disappear’?

]]> By: Felton http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827410 Felton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827410 Geoff, you kind of beat me too it, but here goes: So much for making the homeless problem more visible. Geoff, you kind of beat me too it, but here goes:

So much for making the homeless problem more visible.

]]> By: Phikus http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827422 Phikus Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827422 I'd give him invisible money (enough to retire on, while I'm at it.) When you think about it, $ does have the tendency to disappear... I’d give him invisible money (enough to retire on, while I’m at it.) When you think about it, $ does have the tendency to disappear…

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-829471 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-829471 http://invisiblepeople.tv/ http://invisiblepeople.tv/

]]> By: kimnbri http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827683 kimnbri Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827683 "Where magical invisibility is concerned, the issue may arise of whether the clothing and items carried by the invisible wearer/carrier are also rendered invisible. In general, they are, but in some instances, clothing remains visible and must be removed for the full invisibility effect." Per Wiki so it must be so... “Where magical invisibility is concerned, the issue may arise of whether the clothing and items carried by the invisible wearer/carrier are also rendered invisible. In general, they are, but in some instances, clothing remains visible and must be removed for the full invisibility effect.”

Per Wiki so it must be so…

]]> By: Felton http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827429 Felton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827429 Correction for my last comment: "beat me <i>to</i> it." Waiter! More coffee! Correction for my last comment: “beat me to it.” Waiter! More coffee!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827690 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827690 I suggest a homeopathic donation. It has the memory of money I suggest a homeopathic donation.
It has the memory of money

]]> By: straponego http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827444 straponego Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827444 That poor bastard. That poor bastard.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-841782 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-841782 how can i give help to this man? how can i give help to this man?

]]> By: autark http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827452 autark Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827452 the invisible hand hard at work the invisible hand hard at work

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827713 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827713 When I was homeless and panhandling for a living, I found there are only two techniques that really work well. One option is looking really haggard and harassing people until they pay you to leave them alone. The other is to employ a novelty such as this. You can make anywhere from fifty cents a day up to a hundred bucks an hour panhandling. Sitting there with a short honest sign explaining your predicament will get you nothing — maybe a dime every couple hours. Putting out a sign asking for beer money, or "ninjas killed my family spare change for jujitsu lessons" or putting a cup on the end of a string and tying it to a stick with a sign saying "fishing for change", might make you a good fifty bucks over the course of an hour or two. If you're genuinely looking to buy a cheap dress shirt, admission to a pool so you can use their shower, two bucks to print some resumes at kinkos, and four bucks to rent a locker at the greyhound station to store your stuff while you apply for jobs, you're pretty much fucked. You really do need to stop shaving, stop bathing, lose some teeth, then walk up to people, put your face three inches from theirs and follow them, continuing to say "spare change" till they give you money. Otherwise, you need to get creative like this invisible fellow did. Apropos captcha: "freedom letter" When I was homeless and panhandling for a living, I found there are only two techniques that really work well. One option is looking really haggard and harassing people until they pay you to leave them alone. The other is to employ a novelty such as this.

You can make anywhere from fifty cents a day up to a hundred bucks an hour panhandling. Sitting there with a short honest sign explaining your predicament will get you nothing — maybe a dime every couple hours. Putting out a sign asking for beer money, or “ninjas killed my family spare change for jujitsu lessons” or putting a cup on the end of a string and tying it to a stick with a sign saying “fishing for change”, might make you a good fifty bucks over the course of an hour or two.

If you’re genuinely looking to buy a cheap dress shirt, admission to a pool so you can use their shower, two bucks to print some resumes at kinkos, and four bucks to rent a locker at the greyhound station to store your stuff while you apply for jobs, you’re pretty much fucked. You really do need to stop shaving, stop bathing, lose some teeth, then walk up to people, put your face three inches from theirs and follow them, continuing to say “spare change” till they give you money. Otherwise, you need to get creative like this invisible fellow did.

Apropos captcha: “freedom letter”

]]> By: EeyoreX http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827461 EeyoreX Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827461 Last night I saw upon the stair A homeless man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today Oh, how I wish he’d go away Last night I saw upon the stair
A homeless man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away

]]> By: Ugly Canuck http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827463 Ugly Canuck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827463 I always knew that no-good sex maniac Vinny Shinblind would wind up on the streets one day, begging his meals! PS RIP Peter Bramley, Vinny's father. I'm glad he did not live to see what has become of little Vinny.... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/05/arts/design/05bramley.html I always knew that no-good sex maniac Vinny Shinblind would wind up on the streets one day, begging his meals!

PS RIP Peter Bramley, Vinny’s father.
I’m glad he did not live to see what has become of little Vinny….

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/05/arts/design/05bramley.html

]]> By: Ugly Canuck http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827465 Ugly Canuck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827465 "Frank Jenkinson"?! My ass! That's Vinny, and he's a wanted man, a sex maniac, I tells ya! “Frank Jenkinson”?! My ass!
That’s Vinny, and he’s a wanted man, a sex maniac, I tells ya!

]]> By: lauriok http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827983 lauriok Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827983 Here in Finland, the government is preparing a law that would make panhandling, even silent, illegal. In the end they'd like to make all the homeless, unemployed, and poor people invisible, so as not to interfere with their shiny, clinically clean capitalist welfare fantasy. Here in Finland, the government is preparing a law that would make panhandling, even silent, illegal. In the end they’d like to make all the homeless, unemployed, and poor people invisible, so as not to interfere with their shiny, clinically clean capitalist welfare fantasy.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-828240 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-828240 i see that human kindness knows no bounds. that's human nature for ya. MINE! MINE! MINE! i see that human kindness knows no bounds. that’s human nature for ya. MINE! MINE! MINE!

]]> By: Kleinzeit http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827483 Kleinzeit Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827483 I foresee a franchise. I foresee a franchise.

]]> By: jaytkay http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827498 jaytkay Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827498 My impression is its mocking the homeless. Not funny, thought-provoking or interesting. My impression is its mocking the homeless. Not funny, thought-provoking or interesting.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-833391 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-833391 I'm really touched by the plight of the poor homeless with invisiblemanitis. I always make an invisible donation of several hundred invisible dollars when I don't see them reduced to begging on the street. Why they don't just slip into the best restaurants and help themselves is testimony to the widespread decency found amongst them ... a quality often invisible in the wider community. I’m really touched by the plight of the poor homeless with invisiblemanitis. I always make an invisible donation of several hundred invisible dollars when I don’t see them reduced to begging on the street.

Why they don’t just slip into the best restaurants and help themselves is testimony to the widespread decency found amongst them … a quality often invisible in the wider community.

]]> By: tixeon75 http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827274 tixeon75 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827274 I can't see giving him anything. I can’t see giving him anything.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827276 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827276 This is more symbolic than you might think at first. Discouraged workers (those who have given up looking for a job or who have been unemployer for over four weeks) are not counted as part of the labor force... This is more symbolic than you might think at first. Discouraged workers (those who have given up looking for a job or who have been unemployer for over four weeks) are not counted as part of the labor force…

]]> By: growrosesnow@gmail.com http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827285 growrosesnow@gmail.com Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827285 Well, at least it's original. Well, at least it’s original.

]]> By: SkullHyphy http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827798 SkullHyphy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827798 He'd make a great window washer. He’d make a great window washer.

]]> By: Brainspore http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827291 Brainspore Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827291 Put some pants on, ya perv. Put some pants on, ya perv.

]]> By: meatpigeon http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-827295 meatpigeon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-827295 I wouldn't give him anything. He should pull himself up by his invisible bootstraps. Work as an undercover cop, super hero, CIA spy, stagehand, ventriloquist. The possibilities for employment are endless! Actually, maybe I'd invite him to live with me and just pretend he is a ghost for the lulz I wouldn’t give him anything. He should pull himself up by his invisible bootstraps. Work as an undercover cop, super hero, CIA spy, stagehand, ventriloquist. The possibilities for employment are endless!

Actually, maybe I’d invite him to live with me and just pretend he is a ghost for the lulz

]]> By: kip w http://boingboing.net/2010/07/06/invisible-homeless-m.html#comment-828063 kip w Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-828063 Charles Addams, wasn't it? "BE THANKFUL YOU CAN BE SEEN." Charles Addams, wasn’t it? “BE THANKFUL YOU CAN BE SEEN.”

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