Guerilla Art Installations
I used to like making strange art installations in unusual places.
Long before I'd ever even heard of Andy Goldsworthy, I would make patterns with logs, coloured leaves, stones and other found items on woodland pathways.
Then sit hidden away to see how people reacted.
Some would just walk through, deliberately destroying it, and others would stop and look for a few moments and then walk around.
I particularly liked construction sites, would go in late at night and decorate an area, usually with flowers or coins.
Then go back the following night to see how it was.
One place, someone really interacted with it and left things similar for me, this went on for months until the site was nearly finished.
Found a spray painted triangle on the floor with a flower inside it and 'Who are you?"
It made me smile
Once I left a note scratched into a stone left at another scene saying 'Is this art?" and left my mobile number.
Got a message saying yes :)

Banksy and Andy Goldsworthy got rich and famous doing this kind of stuff.
sods!

:)
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 2:17, 5 replies)

me too :)
in the woods where i grew up.

i think the key is to take good photos of it, which i never did as i only take pictures of my fingers/pocket/headless friends.

must take it up again.

nice job on the building site though, that must have made their mornings brighter for a while :)
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 7:47, closed)

Pseudonymously, rather than anonymously, I suppose.....
... but my favourite bit of guerilla art was when a mate of mine once piled all the furniture in a hotel bar into a wonderfully artistic sculpture and pinned a note on it reading "Do Not Move: The Management"

It was still there when we left three days later.
(greatoldone Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl f'tagn, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 8:21, closed)

This is so up my street, having done similar things.
It gets a big click.
I also like putting objects out of context. The stranger the better, then watching the results.
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 10:11, closed)

A mate of mine goes to Uni with someone who does things like this.
She also slips a pieces of paper with her address and a message asking to send her something from their lives.

I'd absolutely love to encounter something similar, keep doing it!
(TheColonel, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 10:48, closed)

:)
I think more people should do things like this.
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 22:07, closed)