Joey Skaggs' Works in Environment
April Fools’ Day Parade
For more than three decades, New York City's Annual April Fools' Day Parade has offered the public an opportunity to express, in a comical way, its outrage against the foolishness of mankind. Thousands of participants in look-alike costumes with satirical floats creatively mock the thoughtless, corrupt and selfish acts of the past year. The parade marches down 5th Avenue from 59th Street to Washington Square Park where revelers rejoice and party. The event ends with the annual crowning of the King of Fools.
Trump’s Military Parade, 2018
New York City's 33rd Annual April Fools' Day Parade kicked off with a satirical take on Trump's Military Parade. President Trump astride a tricycle mounted sling-shot launcher with a 10 foot tall rocket was joined by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean "Rocket Man" Kim Jong Un who had his own smaller rocket.
Trump’s Kool-Aid, New York
On Monday, April 1, 2019, Joey Skaggs’ 34th Annual April Fools’ Day Parade and 3rd Annual Trumpathon went off without a hitch! Marching from 5th Avenue and 59th Street to Trump Tower at 57th Street in Manhattan, paraders wearing Donald Trump masks carried protest signs and toasted the President with his own Kool-Aid. A police squadron cheerfully escorted the parade.
Trump’s Golden Throne
April Fools' Day is Joey Skaggs' favorite holiday. Every year since 1986, to commemorate and celebrate the folly of mankind, he has organized New York City's Annual April Fools' Day Parade. Over the years, the parade has grown in stature and has now joined the ranks of beloved New York parades. In 2017, unlike other years when the parades have attracted major media coverage but have basically been a figment of Joey's imagination, there actually was a parade. It was a Trumpathon!
Save the Geoduck
Dr. Richard J. Long (aka Joey Skaggs), a marine biologist working in the Pacific Northwest founds the "Save the Geoduck Committee" and calls for the immediate halt of the commercial harvesting and exporting of what he considers to be an endangered species due to over-use as an aphrodisiac by the Japanese .
Pandora’s Hope Movie
In 2012, while film director Andrea Marini was shooting his documentary Art of the Prank about Joey Skaggs, Joey was producing, directing and appearing in Pandora's Hope, a fake short documentary about the ethics and perils of genetic modification in plant and human organisms.
Windsurfing from Hawaii to California
On January 15, 1983, Hawaii windsurfer, J.J. Skaggs (a.k.a. Joey Skaggs) set out to become the first person to cross the Pacific Ocean on a sailboard.
Fish Condos
In 1983, Joey Skaggs began making and selling Fish Condos, aquatic sculptures depicting bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens and bathrooms for upwardly mobile guppies.
Gypsies Against Stereotypical Propaganda
Jojo, the king of the New York gypsies (aka Joey Skaggs) and founder of Gypsies Against Stereotypical Propaganda (G.A.S.P.), called for a gypsy work stoppage until the gypsy moth was renamed.
Sewer Monster
New York's Sewer Monster, thought to be just another urban legend like Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman, actually left his home in the sewer to scare off some protestors in front of the Governor's office in Midtown Manhattan.
Disco Radio
In 1978, Skaggs and his School of Visual Arts students devised a satirical street performance to illustrate what could happen if everyone in society disregarded each other’s comfort zones.
Metamorphosis, Cockroach Miracle Cure
"We have much to learn from cockroaches," said entomologist Dr. Josef Gregor, (aka Joey Skaggs). "They've been around for 350 million years." Gregor, leader of a group called Metamorphosis, said he had bred a superstrain of roaches, extracted their hormones and made a vitamin pill which cured arthritis, acne, anemia and menstrual cramps and made one invulnerable to nuclear radiation.