Showing posts with label Igor Vamos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Igor Vamos. Show all posts

Saturday, August 8, 2009

The Management Leisure Suit

The Yes Men are anti-capitalist provocateurs and pranksters (or, "culture jammers"). According to Wikipedia, their real names are Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos. Vamos is an associate professor at Rensselaer, and Servin is, I assume, independently wealthy. They can be pretty funny though. I was reminded of them by a review of their new movie in the Financial Times earlier this week. Here's an example of one of the Yes Men's pranks from a few years ago, while impersonating WTO officials at a conference in Finland. If you are impatient and want to skip the set-up, the management leisure suit makes its first appearance around 6:24. From there, well... you'll see.