Mark Kotlinski and John Carluccio’s latest piece for Current is on Steve ‘ESPO’ Powers awesome installation at Coney Island, the Waterboard Thrill Ride. This pushes so many buttons for me - it’s art, it’s graffiti, it’s advertising, copyright infringement (I’m assuming SpongeBob’s people didn’t ok this), but most of all it’s a great way to engage people. I love the family at the end - for a second I thought thy were dead serious about how awesome they thought waterboarding was.

The only thing about the ride I thought was missing is a call to action - and I haven’t seen the installation in person so maybe there is one - but it seems like a waste to make a point in such a hard hitting way and then not provide some way for people to find out more, or take action in the moment when they might be motivated to do so. Maybe there’s an oppurtunity for someone else to do this - If I were Amnesty International, I’d get a street sales teams down to Coney Island sharpish.