Published on February 25, 2010
So even with my MFA thesis opening next week this project won’t leave me alone. The drop will happen sometime in March. If you live in NY, ATL, the West Coast, overseas, or anywhere else really, and want to drop this one for me and take photos or video of the process please email me at: shout@ryanwh.com
Published on February 23, 2010
Published on February 19, 2010
Published on February 17, 2010
Apparently, most of the people who’ve voted at hubdub.com think that Jason Eric Kay (aka the Tiger Woods Vs. Gatorade shopdropper) will not face any prison time. I hope not, but I wonder what type of fines he’ll receive. He faces three counts of product tampering (and apparently a public consensus of at least one count of ‘criminally stupid’ — I obviously disagree with the contempt for Kay’s initial intervention, but worry that his actions were so obviously telegraphed. Was he hoping to get caught for the publicity?)
Time for more research into ‘product tampering’ as it pertains to non-food items, as well as the laws for other countries.
Published on February 15, 2010
Am I the only jackass out there not shopdropping anonymously?
I’ve tried to steer clear of the overtly graffiti/street art stylings (the similarity seems substantial enough without adding a ‘tag’ to the mix.) I’ve always thought “fuck it, if they ever actually figure this out, they can come get me.” But now this Jason Eric Kay (the Tiger Woods/Gatorade) guy in Denver has me thinking twice. His charges for shopdropping carry a maximum five-year prison term and $450,000 in fines. Granted, he practically begged Gatorade to have someone arrest him…
But is it time for me to split this operation in two? A legit site to document the movement and an alias for pulling it off myself? Or should I just retire from shopdropping and keep track of where it goes from here?
Please email any suggestions for a shopdropping pseudonym to rwh@shopdropping.net.
If I use your suggestion I’ll mail you a “FCKD Mag” single edition of a magazine of your choice. + as long as you keep the snitch off your jacket, you’ll be the only one who knows my super hero secret identity…
Published on February 15, 2010
Just received this link in an email from “electronic ghost.” No idea who it is, but it seems like a bad ass addition to the growing group of people shopdropping magazines.
Published on February 15, 2010
Check out the info from a November bit in L Magazine here. (Just starting to catch up with end of the year/New Year’s/Mardi Gras madness.)
Published on January 23, 2010
So I’ve been expecting this story for years now. (Il)legality of shopdropping is about to get explicit:
A Longmont man accused of relabeling Gatorade bottles with an image of golfer Tiger Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren, on one side and the word “Unfaithful” on the other was charged Wednesday with product tampering.
Jason Eric Kay, 38, was arrested by Food and Drug Administration agents on charges of introducing a misbranded product into interstate commerce, altering food labels while the product was for sale and intent to cause serious injury to the business by tainting a consumer product.
The charges together carry a maximum five-year prison term and $450,000 in fines.
According to an FDA affidavit, Kay sent an e-mail to Gatorade’s parent company, PepsiCo, in which he offered to do the labeling scheme as a marketing campaign for the company.
“It is good for Gatorade and it is good for art,” the e-mail reportedly said.
Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14184471#ixzz0dRdpSSLD
Published on January 21, 2010
I finally got around to adding interior shots from last year’s Heist show. Check out the second page of the photo gallery on the home page: http://www.shopdropping.net
+ I’m launching a new project after I finish with an upcoming exhibition of ‘unrelated’ work (hopefully late March 2010.)
Published on January 21, 2010
Greetings from San Francisco! I’m keeping my eyes open and ears to the ground for shopdropping projects on the Left Coast. If you know of one, drop me a line.
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