Oh my, this is rich. Last Wednesday night OCAD Integrated Media student Thorarinn Ingi Jonsson staged a fake bomb attack at the Royal Ontario Museum. In attempt to "recontextualize" the bomb, he managed to tie up emergency services for several hours, scare the crap out of a lot of people, and best of all, thwart an AIDS fundraiser, costing organizers $100,000 in lost funding. Not only did this budding art dynamo forego consulting a calendar to see what exactly his 'piece' would be disrupting, when it came time to call-in the bomb to ROM staff, he didn't have any idea who to contact, so poked randomly at the Museum's automated telephone system until he got an answer. Jonsson's astounding lack of forethought—and common sense—goes some way in explaining why he is still unrepentant despite the collective disgust , and embarrassment, expressed by Torontonians.
Way to go OCAD. You've raised the bar once again.
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