Posted by Andrew Soar on December 12, 2012 · 2 Comments
Today in London a giant 50ft-tall rubber duck was released up the River Thames to publicise a gambling site’s effort to give back some of their winnings into the community to provide a smile in these bleak economic times. Jackpotjoy.com‘s stunt saw former Carry On star Barbara Windsor, the patron for the FUNdation initiative, take … Read more
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Posted by Andrew Soar on August 25, 2011 · 2 Comments
We all have a favourite toy from our childhood that we desperately – sometimes embarrassingly – wanted to keep hold of in a secret box under our bed, never to be parted with. Florentijn Hoffman decided to make his a bit more public, with The Big Yellow Rabbit at OpenART Biennale this year. The Örebro … Read more
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