The Anti-Advertising Agency

AAA material remixed

Steve Lambert — Sun, 06 May 2012 21:02:20 +0000

All the AAA materials are licensed with Creative Commons licenses so you can re-use, remix, and share them. Here’s a couple examples of AAA remixes:

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Liberated Ads Confront Foreclosure Crisis (via CDC)

Steve Lambert — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:39:05 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 19, 2012 – San Francisco, California Liberated Ads Confront Foreclosure Crisis

The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new campaign of bus shelter ads to confront America’s home foreclosure crisis.

During the week of January 16th, the CDC successfully apprehended, rehabilitated and discharged more than one dozen bus shelter advertisements throughout San Francisco, including the intersection of California and Davis Street, one block from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The CDC’s red, white and blue advertisements declare: MORTGAGE IN TROUBLE? OCCUPY THE BANKS along with the website, www.OccupyWallStWest.org. Produced with the assistance of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the corrected advertisements feature the rooftop of an American home set against clear blue skies with the phrase: Making Home Affordable.

The corrected ads were released shortly prior to January 20th in anticipation of a day-long, nonviolent shut down of San Francisco’s Financial District by Occupy SF. January 20th also marks the one year anniversary of the controversial Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which granted First Amendment protection to corporate political expenditures. Occupy protestors are demanding a halt to predatory foreclosures and evictions by banks and the end of corporate personhood. They will be taking their demands directly to the offices of banks and corporations in San Francisco to stop business as usual on January 20th.

The rehabilitated advertisements are currently at liberty and seem to have successfully readjusted to public life. However, these ads will remain under surveillance by department staff to prevent recidivism and any potential lapse into prior criminal behavior.

Founded in 1994, the CDC is a private correctional facility that protects the public through the secure management, discipline, and rehabilitation of California’s advertising. The department was initiated by individuals who felt that public correctional facilities were insufficiently managing the state’s most criminal elements and that effective care and treatment would improve under the supervision of a private institution.

For more information on the operations and programs of the CDC, contact the California Department of Corrections Office of Communications at cdc@revolutionist.com.

This Space Available

Steve Lambert — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:45:22 +0000

“I have never seen such a god damn group of selfish, eager hogs” –President Lyndon Johnson on the Billboard Industry

Over a year ago I interviewed for this documentary about visual pollution. In my research as an artist over the past 12 years I have learned more than most would ever care to about public space, graffiti laws, the advertising industry, and the ugly underside of marketing. I haven’t seen this film yet, but I’m glad to see the message making it’s way out with voices from within and without the industry.

It premieres at IFC Center in New York next week on November 5th.

About the “This Space Available” Film

“Billboards and commercial messages dominate the public space like never before. Can we reverse this visual pollution? This Space Available looks at diverse activists from the worlds of advertising, street art, and politics. Influenced by the writing of Marc Gobé ( Emotional Branding ), his daughter Gwenaelle directs with tremendous verve in her depiction of New Yorkers and others around the world who want to reclaim the integrity of their cities against an onslaught of visual pollution.” Read more at ThisSpaceAvailableFilm.com

Trailer

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Clips

Steve Lambert talking about an illegal billboard

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Jordan Seiler organizing the whitewashing of illegal ads

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Jordan Seiler

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Public Ad Campaign: This Space Available – DOC NYC World Premier at the IFC Theater

Steve Lambert — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:29:38 +0000

PublicAdCampaign is proud to announce the world premier of the documentary film This Space Available. This full length feature focuses on the issue of visual pollution in our global community. Intent on creating a critical dialogue on the issue, the film investigates a wide range of perspectives including those of billboard executives, government agencies, and public space activists like myself. While the film will eventually be widely available, DOC NYC will be premiering the film on Saturday November 5th at 7pm at the IFC theater in New York City. There will also be a Q&A after the screening for viewers to question the film makers and a few of the subjects. We hope to see you there.

To purchase tickets for the This Space Available premier at the DOC NYC fest at the IFC theater on 11-05-11, please visit the DOC NYC website [HERE]. Remember there is limited space available so get your tickets now before they are all gone.

The grassroots movement against visual pollution

A documentary film directed by

Gwenaelle Gobe

Executive Producer: Marc Gobe/Emotional Branding

World Premiere at IFC Center/ New York

Saturday November 5th Time: 7:00 PM

Tuesday November 8th Time: 1:15 PM

via Public Ad Campaign: This Space Available – DOC NYC World Premier at the IFC Theater.

Destructables.org Launch Party Oct 15

packard — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:53:06 +0000

Destructables.org: A user generated, Do-It-Yourself website for projects of protest and creative dissent.

Details:

Saturday October 15th from 4pm-7pm (demos start about 5pm) In the Studio for Urban Projects. 3579 17th street (at Dolores) San Francisco

The launch will feature several demos, including ‘how to make and use wheat paste to put up posters’, a demo from the Center for Tactical Magic, and more!

Destructables is a sort of online anarchist cookbook without the weapons and with a lot more art and humor. The site features user-generated, step-by-step instructions for performing a wide range of public actions, such as: shop-dropping (putting fake products in stores), protest strategies, wheat-pasting, making protest props, interventions, methods of civil disobedience, and many other forms of dissent. The projects range from the practical and tactical to the creative and illegal. We wanted to put these tools and resources into one convenient place. To make a living archive and resource for the art and activist communities where people can share what they’ve learned. The site already includes contributions from high profile groups the Yes Men, Crimethinc, and the Center for Tactical Magic.

Destructables.org was made possible through the generous support of Southern Exposure, Di Rosa and through tactical support from Crimethinc, and the Center for Creative Activism. Thanks to the Studio for Urban Projects.

Hope you can stop by!

Subway HD Screens: Round 6 – Bogota

Steve Lambert — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:22:33 +0000

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Pixel Hacking – Decorando la publicidad

If you missed the previous rounds, check em out here:

Abstractor.tv – Ji Lee
Light Criticism – Anti-Advertising Agency and Graffiti Research Lab
Pixelator – Jason Eppink
Hold Fast Sell Out – Posterchild
Stained Glass – Posterchild

And of course Aram Bartholl had a roll in the lineage.

Sao Paulo: Before And After

Steve Lambert — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:27:13 +0000

via Ban Billboard Blight.

Make “Capitalism Work For Me!”

Steve Lambert — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:17:14 +0000

I’m raising funds on a new project. Get involved!

Fun with Cellophane

Uppity Bike Commuters — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:13:10 +0000

Make Sculpture out of those wonderful advert kiosks that Clear Channel has so thoughtfully placed on the sidewalks. They are popping up everywhere and we might as well do something with them. Uppity Bike Commuters would like to share this idea with anyone with access to a roll of Cellophane wrap. Since there is no property damage it’s not illegal as far as we know, but check your local graffiti laws to be sure. One you get running around it, its a lot like a Maypole Dance.

This post was submitted by Uppity Bike Commuters.

Sign Companies, Property Owners, Advertising Agencies, Major Corporations Thumb Their Noses at L.A.’s New Off-Site Sign Ban

David Shrigley

Steve Lambert — Sun, 22 May 2011 13:57:19 +0000

A David Shrigley piece just sent to me from my friend Christina Kral.

David Lynch on Product Placement