THE YES MEN TAKE SUNDANCE IN 2009

The new documentary, The Yes Men Fix The World (dir. Andy Bichlbaum + Mike Bonanno) will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival 2009 on Jan 18th. Scott Beibin of the Evil Twin Booking Agency and Lost Film Fest was appointed as the publicist for the film. Huge Congratulations to Everyone!!

The film is a follow up to their previous documentary (The Yes Men 2004- dir. Dan Ollman + Sarah Price + Chris Smith), and will feature amazing pranks of the past few years including the Fake New York Times, vivoleum, the survivaball, BBC's Bhopal gaffe, wishful thinking for post-Katrina New Orleans, countless spoofed shareholder meetings and newscasts, plus much much more. We won't spoil the surprises, but you should definitely see this film when it comes out in 2009.

Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum in The Yes Men Fix The World

Liz Cole and Scott Beibin from Evil Twin Booking / Lost Film Fest with Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men

Evil Twin Booking speakers Greg Palast and Bill Ayers in the news:

Greg Palast, investigator of financial fraud and author of bestsellers Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, discusses Blagojevich revelations on CNN Headline news, and Bill Ayers, educator, author and activist, debates Chris Matthews on Hardball.

Evil Twin Booking Agency speakers William Ayers and The Yes Men in the news, again:

Educator, author and activist William Ayers is enjoying the last laugh, greeted with an overwhelmingly positive media blitz and packed houses in support of his reissued book "Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist". Ayers on Good Morning America:

And, The Yes Men continue to make headlines with the spoof NY Times forecasting real hope and change. Clip from CNN prime time:

The Yes Men, us, and headlines of real Hope and Change.

It's been a very eventful month for Liz Cole and Scott Beibin of the Evil Twin Booking Agency. We kept mum while deluged with hate mail over Bill Ayers. When Obama won, we were overjoyed at the historic significance and danced in the streets. Rather than publicizing the pre-election attention, we decided to focus all of our energy on a project that we believed would really inspire a sense of true Hope and Change. That project, of course, was to work in coalition with dozens of organizations and thousands of volunteers to blanket US cities with 1.2 million copies of a hopeful, albeit fake edition of The New York Times with fantasy headlines like "Iraq War Ends", "National Health Insurance Act Passes" and "Public Relations Industry Starts to Shut Down".

Today was the big day, and we've made headlines. The success shows what can be accomplished when a lot of people we respect and love think big and work together. It is interesting that so many people are pointing the finger at The Yes Men - and, why not? Their brilliant antics and pranks have captured the imagination of a generation that believes another world is possible.

* PDF of the fake New York Times: http://www.nytimes-se.com/pdf

* Ongoing video releases found here: http://www.nytimes-se.com/video

(be careful - if you blink, you might miss Lili Taylor talking about her "compassion muscle")

* The New York Times responds: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/pranksters-spoof-the-times/

Oh the hilarity...

Much love,
Liz Cole and Scott Beibin

We're deluged with Bill Ayers' hate mail...

It's been a blessing to have the current flurry of attention for our speakers bureau, the ever so fabulous, sexy, and sleep deprived Evil Twin Booking Agency.

Evil Twin Booking Agency speaker Mitchell Joachim in this months WIRED Magazine

The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To

MITCHELL JOACHIM: REDESIGN CITIES FROM SCRATCH

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/16-10/sl_joachim

By Tom Vanderbilt

Dressed in architect black and sporting dreadlocks, Mitchell Joachim isn't your average Whole Foods envirogeek. For one thing, he speaks in an intense staccato punctuated with words like peristaltic and epiphetic. And don't get him started on sustainability. "I don't like the term," he says. "It's not evocative enough. You don't want your marriage to be sustainable. You want to be evolving, nurturing, learning." Efficiency doesn't cut it, either: "It just means less bad." Even zero emissions falls short. "This table does zero damage," he says, thumping the one in his office. "No VOCs, no carbons. Whatever. It doesn't do anything positive."

Joachim spent a decade working with architect Michael Sorkin, followed by a short spell with Frank Gehry. He now teaches at Columbia University and is a partner at Terreform 1, a nonprofit focused on ecological design. A kind of Frederick Law Olmsted for the 21st century, he spends most of his time thinking about how to reduce the ecological footprint of cities. It's not a short-term project. "It took 15 to 20 years to get a hybrid car," he says. "To change the basic paradigm for how we make buildings, 40 to 50 years. To change a city? That's 100 to 150 years." If the next president is smart, he'll want to get started sooner rather than later.

At the top of the agenda, Joachim says, is mobility and its inefficiencies. Citing US Department of Energy statistics, he says that while 29 percent of the nation's energy expenditure--what he calls "the suck"--now goes toward getting around, "in 50 years that will double." Among the biggest sources of waste, he argues, is the automobile--not only in energy but in the space it occupies (cars, he notes, spend more than 90 percent of the day parked). For nearly a century, Joachim says, "cities have been designed around cars. Why not design a car around a city?" So he did just that. One of his concept vehicles, the City Car , was named to Time magazine's Inventions of the Year list in 2007...

read more:http://www.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/16-10/sl_joachim