Smuggling Stuff Into Protests/...

[An archist]

Right, I'm not good at paint, but I was thinking of a way to sneakshields into a protest, maybe someone came up with this idea already, but anyway, feel free to post other ideas here.

this is what you need:
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d1/brakke123/materiaal.jpg


This is how it looks assembled:
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d1/brakke123/materiaal2.jpg

You draw a picture on the shield so that it looks like a banner or something, when things get rough, you pull the stick out and voila: a perfect shield.

[TC]

Um, yah, thats been done before...with like percisely that construction...which is why at a lot of protests in america they try to limit the type of materials people can use for signs (no wood or metal, etc)

[An archist]

Damn, it seems that every time I come up with a good idea or slogan it's been used before.

[razboz]

I guess what you could do is make a very elaboratte costume and conceal things in it.

[elmo sez]

maybe place things at the venue like the day before ?

[dannie]

Originally posted by An [email protected] 8 2006, 01:13 PM
Damn, it seems that every time I come up with a good idea or slogan it's been used before.
doesn't matter if anyone has tought of it before, just do it, it's a good idea

[An archist]

I will, and placing stuff in advance is a good idea too, thanks.

EDIT: I just had another great idea that might have been used before: streetsigns are perfect size for shields.

[apathy maybe]

A shield that isn't obvious can be conceled in a backpack. A bit of wood or metel and then swing the thing to your front and voila?

I have seen a really good book online about making shields and stuff for protests. Just gone to find it.

[RevSouth]

http://www.devo.com/sarin/shieldbook.pdf

That one? I'ts excellent, got pretty much everything in it.

[Samuel]

I'd whip out that Phalanx method and fight your way in Brad Pitt-in-Troy-style.

seriously though, you could assemble a shield using materials you find at the site. Stop sign with a premade label, telescoping PVC in your pack, hammer + nails and you've got a shield with stopping power.

[apathy maybe]

ChattComm: I think that is it. It took me a while to find it again, and I'm not downloading it again to find out if that is the same. I have V1.1 and it is about 1.1 megabytes too.

It has lots of interesting ideas, including that idea about the backpack.
If you want a copy do a search for shieldbook.pdf at google or download from the link above.

[subcal]

:ph34r: Use 3 seperate flat shields of smaller size on limited hinges so they fold out to be the shield. Inside a back pack you can have it flat against your back and unfold it when required.

Will work on some pics ir get around to making one for show and tell :mellow:

[Sadena Meti]

Better living through chemistry.

You can make a hell of a shield from a common plastic/canvas banner, and binary construction composite. Which is usually clear, so you can fill two liter soda bottles with it and pass them off. Heavier than soda though.

Take the banner, say a nice 3'x12' one, fix handles to it in advance. Smear one binary composite reagent to one half, the other to the other half, wait, fold, press, wait...

15 minutes later you have a 3'x6 riot shield. Get a good construction composite (amazing what they have at Home Depot) and it can be as strong as the real thing.

Bit medium-tech, somewhat pricey, but effective and surprising.

Now you could do the same thing with a non-binary adhesive, but they typically don’t create the same amount of rigidity, and you will probably end up gluing yourself to the banner, resulting in bizarre performance art.