Should Outdoor Advertising Companies Be Subject To The Same Penalties Grafitti Writers Face?
BC Biermann, a PhD Assistant Professor of Film/Media Studies California Baptist University – Riverside has recently published a paper on “Spatial Distributions of Power: Illegal Billboards as Graffiti in Los Angeles.” In it he argues…
“While graffiti has regularly been prosecuted as form of [...]
Learn all about the New York Street Art Takeover!
Now we know what Google would do. What would you do if you had the ability to take over every billboard?
According to a new patent that was just granted to Google, the company could soon extend the reach of its advertising program in Google Maps to Street View. This patent, which was originally filed on [...]
If you were a video game geek in the early 1990’s, this is probably up your alley. A quartet of street artists named Mr. Talion, Epoxy, Baveaux, and Kone have added the heads-up display from the first-person shooter computer game DOOM to a number of billboards throughout Berlin. You can see more here.
via DOOM Display [...]
By friend of the AAA, Eliot Van Buskirk at Wired Magazine
Imeem users, bloggers and web users are in for another nasty surprise following MySpace’s acquisition of “certain parts” of the service. MySpace has replaced Imeem songs and playlists embedded on blogs and elsewhere on the web with advertisements for generic ringtones and [...]
Someone left a copy of Overspray Magazine at my studio the other day and as I thumbed through it I came across this small blip on Urban Pranksterism. There were some fun quotes I thought were relevant as we redefine some of the motivations for our work to help guide us forward in this new [...]
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Los Angeles, Toronto, San Francisco, New York; what big city has the outdoor advertising industry under control?
Last March, we reported on the case of an illegal supergraphic sign advertising Chase Bank installed over the second-floor office windows of a building at 7201 Melrose Ave. The city issued a citation to the building owner, Macculloch Properties [...]
The billboard industry is—obviously—in the business of getting messages across.
This they have managed to do, with a vengeance.
In anticipation of today's City Council debate on a proposed new billboard bylaw and tax, the billboard industry has been using its own platform to communicate its deep opposition to these measures. The Out-of-Home Marketing Association of Canada [...]
From Posterchild’s site:
She thought she was just helping me out with another street art project; I kept this covered until after it was installed and after the unveiling I was expecting some kind of reaction- but it took a little while to convince her that this was a proposal for real, and [...]
It is looking like City Council will debate the new signs by-law and billboard tax on Tuesday December 1.
According to the City’s Lobbyist Registry, billboard industry lobbyists have had over 80 closed door meetings with City Councillors in the past month alone.
As a result, IllegalSigns.ca has designed, manufactured and is now distributing these custom-made products [...]
Have you interned at an advertising agency? Help out this UMass student with his doctoral research…
Seeking Reflections on the Internship Experience in Advertising Agency Settings
My name is Chris Boulton. I’m a doctoral student in Communication at UMass, Amherst and I’m developing a dissertation about entering the advertising industry. Specifically, I want to hear from a [...]
Superior Court Judge Terry Green ruled today that the lawsuit settlement giving Clear Channel and CBS Outdoor the right to convert 840 conventional billboards to digital violated the law by exempting those conversions from any zoning regulations or requirements for notice and public hearings.Judge Green took under advisement the question of the legality of the [...]
