Author Archives: Steve Lambert

Owner Arrested For Hollywood Supergraphic Previously Cited For Sign Law Violations

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 1, 2010
Friday night’s arrest of Kayvan Setareh for allowing an 8-story supergraphic ad to be wrapped across three sides of an historic Hollywood building was not the first time the Pacific Palisades man has run afoul of the city’s sign code, according to building department records. In January, 2007, a citation was issued for an illegal [...]
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These Are Not Sentences!

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 24, 2010
Remember, it just takes one pen. Send us yours. Seen in a subway station. // Share|
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Public Ad Campaign: Should OAC’s Be Subject To The Same Penalties Grafitti Writers Face?

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 28, 2010
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 [...]
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NY Street Art Takeover Microsite

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 27, 2010
Learn all about the New York Street Art Takeover! // Share|
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Google Plans to Upgrade Old Billboards in Street View

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 12, 2010
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 [...]
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DOOM Display Billboards « Urban Prankster

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 7, 2010
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 [...]
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MySpace Replaces Embedded Imeem Playlists With Ads

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 4, 2010
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 the MySpace [...]
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Public Ad Campaign: Situationist Methodology Still Sits Well With Me

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 3, 2010
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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Sign Companies, Property Owners, Advertising Agencies, Major Corporations Thumb Their Noses at L.A.’s New Off-Site Sign Ban

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 10, 2009
Almost a year after the L.A. City Council approved a moratorium on new off-site and supergraphic signs, and four months after it replaced that temporary measure with a permanent ban, advertisers and sign companies continue to wrap, hang, and otherwise display their multi-story supergraphic signs on the walls of buildings throughout the city. So why [...]
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NY Street Art Takeover Mini Documentary

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 7, 2009
how did I not see this before? // Share|
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2012!! In your face advertising! (from Funny or Die)

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 2, 2009
It’s funny because it’s true. 2012!! In your face advertising! – watch more funny videos // Share|
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Office Tenants Plagued by Series of Illegal Supergraphic Signs; Do the L.A. City Attorney and District Councilman Care?

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 2, 2009
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 [...]
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Billboard Companies Protest Billboard Tax…On Illegal Billboards – from Torontoist

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 2, 2009
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 [...]
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Posterchild’s Blade Diary » Something Very Special..

By Steve Lambert | Published: November 30, 2009
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 not just [...]
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Free Billboard Lobbyist Sanitizer Now Available for All Members of Council (from illegalsigns.ca)

By Steve Lambert | Published: November 28, 2009
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 [...]
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