This is making the rounds could inspire some creative action:
There’s a set of instructions on how to hack the signs floating around the internet. My favorite series is over on the MIT site.
Thanks Kelli Anderson for the tip!
via public ad campaign – which is kicking ass lately.
They’re all retouched…
from epoxy on flickr
see also – our post on Detouch
(Thanks Kelli)
via TomorrowMusuem via via Cinema Blend
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 [...]
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 [...]
Found in the bottom of my inbox; this story from WFTV in Florida. Read all the way through to see my favorite part…
Business Owners, Customers Upset Over Controversial Billboard
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — It looked harmless enough, but the words on a billboard unnerved so many people that a popular restaurant nearby actually lost business. [...]
The Los Angeles street artist known as Skullphone managed to get his iconic skull-holding-a-cellphone image to display on 10 prominent digital billboards throughout Los Angeles last week — leading some blogs to report that hed hacked into the signs. Alas, Clear Channel Outdoors, which owns the billboards, says no. "He paid to get it [...]
