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WATKINSHUGHES.COM (formerly RELAPSED.NET) was the original home of SHOPDROPPING.NET

CILDO MEIRELES Meireles is a Brazilian artist who, in 1970, altered Coca-Cola bottles with silkscreened messages before returning them to the bottling plant for recirculation.

THE BLO THE BARBIE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION started a project based on similar concepts in 1989. Feminists attack Teen Talk Barbie and Talking Duke G.I. Joe.

THE DROPLIFT PROJECT Artists contribute tracks created using found sounds and samples to this compilation CD. The CD's are then "droplifted" into stores.

PACKARD JENNINGS "My art is born from a sense of blanket disenfranchisement; be it my feeling of powerlessness in the face of mega-corporations, my disgust with the stewardship of our country, or my broad ideological separation from American fundamentalism..."

FREE WORDS is a book which belongs to whoever finds it. The books are placed on the shelves of bookstores and libraries creating an art situation that infiltrates public and commercial space.

ZOE SHEEHAN SALDANA Saldana hand makes duplicates of Wal-Mart brand clothing and returns to replicas shelves of Wal-Mart stores along with original bar codes and packaging.

BANKSY VS. PARIS HILTON "Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For? He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog's head. A spokeswoman for Banksy said he had doctored 500 copies of her debut album Paris in 48 record shops across the UK."

PLANTING SEEDS Artist Hang Nguyen designs stickers with playful, perhaps thought-provoking, messages and then “tags” fresh produce in grocery stores and markets. The stickers are being distributed and "tagged" by artists throughout the world. Nguyen is also a "SHOPDROPPING.NET OPEN CALL 06" alumni and a particpant in the GREETINGS project.

SHOPDROPPING.montreal Artist Natalie Reiss has created a can-based shopdropping project that is a direct off shoot of my original project, with proper references and footnotes, using her own original art. Check out her amazing drawings and other works here. Reiss is also participant in the GREETINGS project.

SFZERO "SFZero is a Collaborative Production Game. Players build characters by completing tasks for their groups and increasing their score." Tasks included shopdropping

BRICOMUSIK Fuzzkhan shopdrops his music into record stores. Shopdropping in France! Check out the trailer for his "musical science-fiction video"

KAPOTSKI A Belgian "noise-impro trio" who make their albums available for free, including the 12 inch vinyl “KISRTS”. 500 copies were shopdropped all over the world.

PEOPLEPRODUCTS123 "An easy way for everyone to become involved in market advertising, People Products can be downloaded to your home computer, printed in color and black and white, and assembled for placement in corner stores, supermarkets, hardware stores - practically any place you buy products."

CEMENT CUDDLERS Cement filled teddy bears? This page documents an "Anti-shopping Trip with the Los Angeles Cacophony Society"

ETHYMONICS A site dedicated to free music, including a section about reverse shoplifting CD's in to stores.

GUERILLAART.ORG Uses junk mail and its prepaid postage envelopes to create and distribute anti-corporate mail art.

BOOK CROSSING Not exactly the same idea, but close, and interesting nonetheless.