August 25, 2008 – 9:00 am
from the Village Voice with IllegalBillboards.org’s own Jordan Seiler.
City government and citizen vigilantes wage a losing battle against Clear Channel and illegal ads
By Elizabeth Dwoskin
Over the past seven years, Jordan Seiler estimates that he’s taken down hundreds of billboards, posters, and other signs to replace advertising in public places with his own artwork.
Armed with [...]
August 23, 2008 – 9:00 am
Okay, I’m going to come out and probably break with Anti Advertising Agency official policy, and say that I support ad-supported bike share programs. It is kind of making a deal with the devil, but the urban planning benefits have been demonstrated strongly. Getting cars out of the city, is worth the extra [...]
August 17, 2008 – 9:00 am
“Michael Kraus saw the alert about the long taxi line. So he called his brother who lives nearby and got a ride home. Now he owes him a turkey sandwich.”
So advertising is about imagining potential futures. It is about hope, and aspirations and dreams. Is getting a ride home from the [...]
August 12, 2008 – 7:40 pm
this just in from Treehugger (thanks Sam!)
(Photo: alex-s.) The Buenos Aires government and a group of advertising associations have agreed to remove 40 thousand billboards that are infracting the city’s code, Clarin newspaper informed. This represents about 60% of the total amount of billboards.
This agreement is part of a government plan to put in order [...]
IllegalBillboards.org is a new effort launched by the Anti-Advertising Agency with IllegalSigns.ca to help organize and support the removal of illegal billboards in New York (we’ll get to the rest of the country soon I hope!). IllegalBillboards.org consists of a forum and blog where you can learn how to investigate an illegal sign and [...]
I just found this in the documentation of a Autonomous public art workshop, Madrid. Good stuff…
An intervention that intelligently targets a certain Achilles’ heel of advertising. As pointed out by culture jamming documenter Dave Gross in his brilliant piece Interrupt pathological, media simulated social interaction, it is by engaging us in a fictional personal [...]
