Tower of Sleep

29/m/Toronto. Recovering grad student. I write about music and contemporary art. Email: saelantwerdy [at] gmail.com

VIDEO: OWS Occupies Movie-Set Replica Of Itself, for Real | Mother Jones

It’s straight out of a Don Delillo novel: A few hours after television producers set up a replica of Occupy Wall Street for the filming of a new episode of Law and Order Special Victims Unit, the real Occupy Wall Street announced plans to occupy the fake one. At 11:30 p.m. the call to occupy the set went out on Twitter. It’s located at nearby Foley Square and includes a replica of the OWS kitchen and library as well as numerous tarps and tents. “They’ve delivered us this perfectly wrapped Christmas present with a bow on top: They rebuilt our camp,” OWS organizer Jake De Groot told me shortly before the announcement went out. “How could we not go and take it?”

  1. smarterthanyou reblogged this from towerofsleep and added:
    Amazing. This is a nice sequel to “#Occupy as Live Action Role-playing” (my take or barthel’s when it was republished).
  2. post-oceanic reblogged this from towerofsleep and added:
    Certainly this saves the producers of Law and Order from having to hire extras.
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