This is graffiti:
it’s spray paint it’s done without permission on someone else’s property it’s illegal politicians hate it
It’s the expression of a citizen (or small group of citizens) in public space speaking to fellow citizens. Anyone, willing to take the legal [...]
Announcing the winner of the Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom Award; Sarah Gibble!
Read Sarah’s tale of how she was sucked into the advertising industry vortex and how she escaped!
Great news; Add-Art, the Firefox browser extension that replaces ads with art is now Firefox 3 compatible. The extension blocks advertising and replaces it with art images that change every two weeks. The art comes from contemporary artists and curators - read a review from Rhizome.
If you’ve been waiting for Add-Art to work in [...]
Last month Jeff Crouse received an email from Adam Kluger asking if Jeff wanted his fake, Second Life sweatshop “Double Happiness Jeans” featured in the lyrics of a Pussycat Dolls song. Jeff wrote back a hilarious response.
Then Kluger threatened us with a lawsuit for… well, whatever straws were in reach.
You [...]
Other Options: Panel discussion + AAAFFF Awards Ceremony
Eyebeam September 19, 7PM 540 W. 21st St.
Panelists: Josh Greene, Service-Works; Geraldine Juárez, Tanda Foundation; Joanna Spitzner, JS Foundation. Moderated by Abigail Satinsky and Ben Schaafsma of InCUBATE and Sunday Soup Granting Fund.
Followed by the Anti-Advertising Agency (Anne Elizabeth Moore and Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert) Foundation for Freedom 2008 [...]
Inflatable Polar Bears - Environmental Defense Fund - Very Short List Bravo, the environmental defense fund appropriates street art and gets it right. Mass communication can be a powerful thing when not used to sell cars.
Another bad deal to trade public space for money from The New York Sun:
Council Member David Yassky of Brooklyn is calling for the city to begin allowing advertising on municipal trash cans and suggested that such a move, which he estimated could bring $2.5 million in revenue, would help during difficult economic times.
“We [...]
excerpted from - In Florida, Billboards Trump Trees : NPR
Highway 192 used to be exceptionally plain. It was lined by weed-filled ditches, with no sidewalks and poor lighting. It was drab. So the property owners voted to tax themselves $29 million to make the roadway safer and prettier. “Look at it today,” says Lizasuain. “We have [...]
Within the first minute of this interview with Jon Reiss about his new documentary “Bomb It” Reiss cuts to the heart, talking about the battle for public space between graffiti writers and advertising. If you don’t “get” graffiti or what the big deal about public space is, this might be the movie for you. [...]
Quickstyle:
Where’s our Anne Elizabeth Moore been? Reporting on the RNC police state crackdown. You can read about it on Daily Kos. Jordan Seiler is finding Midtown is full of illegal billboards. Jordan also found an Avenue C mural that’s been covered with ads. Boooo! If you care about changing the sign by-laws in Toronto, the [...]
Billboard Co. Says No to Soldier Portraits in St. Paul
A billboard company has canceled its contract to display one of photographer Suzanne Opton’s portraits of active-duty soldiers on an outdoor space in St. Paul, Minnesota, site of the Republican National Convention. Opton, a New York-based photographer, shot her “Soldiers Faces” series at Fort [...]
Bright Idea Shade from Michael Mandiberg on Vimeo.
Oh advertising. Yes it can be shallow and harmful. But I have such great respect for it because the tools at work can be so effective - in social marketing for example. Which is part of the idea [...]
