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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

Artist Kim Beck puts vacant billboard sculptures on High Line Park

Steve Lambert — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:48:07 +0000

Interview with the artist Kim Beck, who realized the latest project of the Public Art program of the High Line Park in New York City. The project consists of ;consists of three sculptures that are installed on roofs of buildings close to the High Line.

via Lee Walton

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Waffle Shop Billboard: Rent it for only $100 a Week!

Steve Lambert — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 06:28:16 +0000

The folks at the amazing Waffle Shop and Conflict Kitchen (do yourself a favor and check out those projects) are making their Billboard available at very reasonable rates. (I rented it for the week of March 27th!) Here’s the info:

From waffleshopbillboard.org

We like to think of the billboard as an experimental publishing and broadcast system for stories, thoughts, and ideas. We know you want to get a message out but we also ask you try to push beyond the conventional and think creatively in your submission.

Here’s how it works:

We are looking to promote stories and ideas and as opposed to businesses. We will reserve a few spots for non-profits, but request that they keep the aforementioned in mind.
We are able to accommodate roughly 25 characters a line (including spaces) for a total of 125 or less characters on the 5 lines of the billboard.
We will change the text every Sunday or the next day if the weather is bad (since it does involve two people up on a billboard for four hours)
For people that want to rent for a month it’s $400, plus $50.00 for any weekly changes beyond the original post with the maximum cost being $550 for the month.
All text for the billboard must be approved by the Waffle Shop as well as Eve Picker from We Do Property and Skip Schwab from East Liberty Development (they haven’t said no yet).
Email us if you are interested at billboard@waffleshop.org

via Rent Our Billboard For Only $100 a Week! – Waffle Shop Billboard.

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Anti-advertising billboard showcases the clean air around it | Grist

Steve Lambert — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:10:26 +0000

Annie Han + Daniel Mihalyo: Lead Pencil Studio, Non-Sign II, 2010 Photo: Lead Pencil Studio

Anti-advertising billboard showcases the clean air around it | Grist.

thanks for the tip from Victoria Estok

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double happiness – mammoth // building nothing out of something

Steve Lambert — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:00:40 +0000

Bureau de Mesarchitecture’s “Double Happiness”, an installation for the 2009 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial

via double happiness – mammoth // building nothing out of something.

sent on by annie vought

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On the difference between art and advertising

Steve Lambert — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:09:50 +0000

…even a really beautiful, ingenious, powerful ad (of which there are a lot) can never be any kind of real art: an ad has no status as gift, i.e. it’s never really for the person it’s directed at.

David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

And poached in this really amazing essay from Harper’s “The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism” by Jonathan Lethem which you should read immediately.

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PosterChild Tells NPA What He Thinks Of Their Contest Promotions

Steve Lambert — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:56:26 +0000

via Public Ad Campaign

Yesterday I went out with PosterChild, Jason Eppink, Steve Lambert, and Packard Jennings for lunch. Our talk inevitably surrounded upcoming personal projects, collaborative street actions and the age of the urinals at the Old Town Bar on 18th street. Posterchild was leaving for Toronto that evening and had one last project to put up before he left. Targeting NPA Outdoor‘s pathetic attempt to convert their third party illegal advertisements into legitimate first party signs, he remade the typical sign that now adorns all NPA illegal signage in the city. This piece was made at the corner of 19th street and 10th avenue in the same location Walker Tieser was arrested during the NYSAT project.

via Public Ad Campaign: PosterChild Tells NPA What He Thinks Of Their Contest Promotions.

See what Charlie Todd at Urban Prankster thinks.

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Subway HD Screens: Round 5

Steve Lambert — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:26:58 +0000

Stained Glass Post-Pixelators – Postronimos

via Posterchild’s Blade Diary

The NY Street Art Takeover Map

Steve Lambert — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:30:04 +0000

via publicadcampaign.com:

View NYSAT Project Map 04-25-2009 in a larger map

This map shows illegal/unpermitted NPA City Outdoor locations located in Lower Manhattan. All the ads together cover approximately 29,450 square feet of our public environment.

On April 25th approximately 30 participants whitewashed nearly 120 street level billboards in broad daylight between the hours of 10:30am and 2:00pm.

At proximately 3:00pm nearly 50 artists and public individuals came back and used those blank canvases for the production of public messages instead of corporate messages.

These are the results

-Yellow locations were were not a part of this project -Blue dots indicate locations that were painted white -Red dots indicate locations that recieved artwork

The Anti-Advertising Agency » art

David Shrigley

Artist Kim Beck puts vacant billboard sculptures on High Line Park

Waffle Shop Billboard: Rent it for only $100 a Week!

Anti-advertising billboard showcases the clean air around it | Grist

double happiness – mammoth // building nothing out of something

On the difference between art and advertising

PosterChild Tells NPA What He Thinks Of Their Contest Promotions

Subway HD Screens: Round 5

The NY Street Art Takeover Map

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