Yes-Men film

Saw this excellent film last night, and if you get the chance to catch in a cinema or on DVD, you'll not regret it. Belly-larfs all-round as marketeers and accountants are taken in by subtle and not-so-subtle impersonators of representatives of the World Trade Organisation. Most of the audiences featured listened to outrageous exploitative bullshit as if it was acceptable, and made small talk afterwards. To their credit, the only audience of the Yes-Men's exploits that reacted were young US college agro-students, advised that recycling faeces as burgers was an economic approach.

The costume below shows the YesMen's conception of a manager's leisure suit of the future, demonstrated at a textile conference in Tampere, Finland. The inflatable penis has a video monitor allowing him to enjoy priapic surveillance of his workforce when off-duty


Here's visual instructions for anyone to become a Yes-(Hu)Man:


One of the front-of-house Yes-Men featured, Mike Bonnano, who is temporarily local, took questions after the screening, and most entertaining he was too. The collective is continuing to promote exploits and satire, most recently of Dow Chemicals last December, when they convinced several mainstream news agencies inc the BBC that Dow would properly comopensate victims of Bhopal. The BBC made a big deal about how they were victims of a hoax on this occasion, when it's Bhopal residents who should properly lay claim to this status. Irony in irony.