Jeff Wysaski, 37, is a Los Angeles–based comedian who makes hilariously off-kilter products and plants them in real stores for unsuspecting souls to find.
"Obvious Plant started with me making fake signs and leaving them in public," Wysaski tells BuzzFeed. A hilarious example? These animal "facts" posted all over the Los Angeles Zoo.
Wysaski — who'd grown bored of creating web comics and traditional internet-style comedy — says the signs "made me realize I really liked bringing my jokes off the computer screen and into my neighborhood."
"You'd be surprised how oblivious people are. There may be people looking for someone to take something OUT of the store, but no one is expecting the opposite to happen."
While Wysaski's weird art installation project has acquired some prestige of late — there was a pop-up exhibit of his work earlier in the year — he says his goal is just to make people laugh.
"A lot of my work focuses on the frustrations of the modern world — depression, excessive consumerism, the futility of existence, etc. When it comes to difficult topics like these, my coping mechanism is to make jokes about it."
