There are several ongoing missions within OMGASM, including my favorite pet project, POSTERGASM (see also: http://www.blackironprison.com/index.php?title=POSTERGASM). After creating this project, I have served as a custodian of its community. The POSTERGASM website has received over 25,000 hits and has active participants in North America, Europe, and Africa. POSTERGASM has grown above and beyond my expectations, having become a community resource with a life of its own.

POSTERGASM encourages people to reclaim public spaces, surprise people out of their daily rut, and encourage creative thought by putting up artistic and often surreal posters. We designed and collected a large quantity of posters in PDF form that anyone can print out and hang up on trees or telephone poles. Content ranges from silly to thought provoking, and from absurd to surreal.

Some posters are like zen koans - little bits of near-nonsense that (we hope) may indirectly instigate original thought or changes in behavior. ("Don't just defend the right to be wrong -- excersize it!") Most are in good humor, meant to provide a dose of comic relief in an all-too-serious world.

Many posters are unremarkable at a distance, but upon closer inspection betray their apparent function. For example, one poster looks like a Missing Dog poster, but the text actually describes an apartment for rent. Another poster looks like a Tag Sale sign, but lists many items which would be unusual to see at a tag sale.

For more information, check out my essay "Why I Put Up Posters", located at http://www.blackironprison.com/index.php?title=Why_I_Put_Up_Posters. To see some photos of actual posters on trees, check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/postergasm.