Joey Skaggs
Joey Skaggs
Joey Skaggsis an American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. Skaggs is one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. Skaggs has used Kim Yung Soo, Joe Bones, Joseph Bonuso, Giuseppe Scaggioli, Dr. Joseph Gregor, and the Rev. Anthony Joseph as aliases...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
CountryUnited States of America
attention became instilled media medium molded shaped vehicle
The media became not just a vehicle to get attention about an event, but a medium in itself, to be shaped and molded and instilled with my social-political agenda.
art art-is
My art became very public.
reality people trying
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
hatred prejudice target
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
next pieces my-favorite
But my favorite work is always my next piece.
media hands firsts
But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
issues attention passionate
I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
successful wire stories
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
easier ifs i-can
It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.
stories release duty
Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.
media massage messages
The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.
artist fine fine-arts
I've always been a fine artist.
trust salt trust-me
Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.
bills tribes function
We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.