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IKEA Heights: covert soap-opera shot in an IKEA

Cory Doctorow at 10:52 pm Mon, Oct 11, 2010

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The staff of the Burbank IKEA store covertly shot an episodic soap opera using the store's furnishing tableaux as sets. They call it "IKEA Heights."

IKEA Heights (Thanks, Alice!)

  • Man camouflaged as pile of paper at Ikea
  • Ganging up Ikea shelves for a striking, cheapass wall-o-books ...
  • BAB, the IKEA Baby
  • Ikea is owned by a "charitable foundation," pays only 3.5% tax ...
  • HOWTO Make a giant spherical metalamp out of dozens of cheap Ikea ...
  • Lamp hacked out of Ikea fiber-optics and watering can
  • Obsessive ingredient photos for cookbook
  • IKEA MAME table

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  • Anonymous

    I see a few well known comedians including Matt Braunger & Brody Stevens in this video, so I don’t know if I believe that this was shot by IKEA employees.

  • Anonymous

    Dave Seger is one of the finest young directors living on this planet.

  • Jeremiah Murphy

    I shot a Dracula Movie in similar fashion at Ikea a few years ago: http://vimeo.com/359386 It was fun shooting there.

  • Anonymous

    Some call him the next Spike Jonze.

  • yvgeny

    Isn’t that Randall Park who was in the hilarious web series Dr. Miracles and had blood spewing from his junk on House M.D.? He works at IKEA now?

  • Anonymous

    @1 It’s not shot by Ikea employees, it’s just shot in Ikea, without the store’s permission. Check out the full series at

    http://www.channel101.com/shows/show.php?show_id=351

  • Stone

    Seriously, I know this is a blog, but the uncorrected errors in post titles and descriptions on this site are embarrassing. Or, if it’s supposed to be a joke that it was done by the Burbank IKEA staff, it was poorly delivered. Great series, though. Dr. Miracles was genius.

    • OoerictoO

      indeed. and if it WERE shot by staff, how would it then be covert??

  • fataltourist

    They are not employed by the store and shot it without the store’s knowledge. It was created for Channel 101.

  • Jacob Tonski

    This was done brilliantly a few years ago by artist Guy Ben-Ner:

    http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/02/exclusive_video_artist_guy_ben.html

  • Robert

    Never ask permission, because the answer will always be No. :(