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One can do so much with 1 pen

Steve Lambert — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:11:29 +0000

Hacked Electronic Signs

Steve Lambert — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:36:52 +0000

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!

Poster Boy Interview

Steve Lambert — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:00:39 +0000

via public ad campaign – which is kicking ass lately.

Photoshopped advertising

Steve Lambert — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:54:19 +0000

They’re all retouched…

from epoxy on flickr

“The Dog Dies” all over Los Angeles

Steve Lambert — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:51:11 +0000

via TomorrowMusuem via via Cinema Blend

Add-Art is now Firefox 3 compatible!

Steve Lambert — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:38:09 +0000

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 Firefox 3, now is the time to update.

Introduction to Add-Art from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.

RL Spam

Steve Lambert — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:00:40 +0000

courtesy of Difusor.

Autonomous public art workshop, Madrid

Steve Lambert — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:30:19 +0000

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 relationship through eye contact that most advertisements get our attention.

p>Therefore the obliteration of the eyes of the models greatly disarms the images. Jiménez’s piece builds on that idea and suggests a game that is as fun to play as it is to watch.

On Times Square

Steve Lambert — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:16:27 +0000

A tour of Times Square with en eye on the advertising. The video goes into the empty Times Square building to see the computers that control the signs.

Wait, did he say the screen could be “controlled by any computer”??? Hmmm…

via Gothamist

Subway Poster Remix Graffiti

Steve Lambert — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:00:28 +0000

(via Adam Rosen and these guys)