If you were a video game geek in the early 1990’s, this is probably up your alley. A quartet of street artists named Mr. Talion, Epoxy, Baveaux, and Kone have added the heads-up display from the first-person shooter computer game DOOM to a number of billboards throughout Berlin. You can see more here.

via DOOM Display Billboards « Urban Prankster.

According to the City’s Lobbyist Registry, billboard industry lobbyists have had over 80 closed door meetings with City Councillors in the past month alone.

As a result, IllegalSigns.ca has designed, manufactured and is now distributing these custom-made products to all members of City Council who are documented to have come into contact with a billboard industry lobbyist.

via » Free Billboard Lobbyist Sanitizer Now Available for All Members of Council ::: illegalsigns.

The lamppost with all the flyers for music shows says “Dont Advertise” but… do they mean, don’t advertise anything other than indy rock. Or does no one care?

At first we thought that the Ginger Ale was listed as Sugar Free because it has Corn Syrup in it, not real Sugar. That would have been some amazing mislabling. Instead, they just ran out of the diet version, and slid everything over. Kind of a let down, but still funny.

The antique store has its new antiques, delivered in a new container from china. Oh, authenticity.

And the Mens Multi. So much for the rumors that it doesn’t exist.

And last but not least, this young woman was go-go dancing in her red-white-blue underwear on the street corner in NW Portland trying to get people to come into the lingerie shop for a big sale. Sex sells, but is that really how bad the economy is, that the company is that desperate, and the young woman is that willing to… dance near-naked on the street for money? I mean, I wholly approve dancing naked on the street for fun, but for money, its just a whole other thing.

The folks at Tappening have released one of the funniest and smartest PSA-ish social education campaigns I’ve seen in a long time. Well, maybe since the New York Times Special Edition.

Reports are these cute single color posters with white lies about the bottled water industry will be hitting the streets of NYC soon, if they aren’t already up (I’m out of town for another week).

My favorite is “Bottled Water: 98% melted ice caps, 2% polar bear tears.” The small print at the bottom of the poster says: “If bottled water companies can lie, we can too.”

Their “Start a Lie” website is also killer. Anyone can add a lie about the bottled water industry, e.g.: “Bottled water makes me urinate fire.”

They also did these great ones during the Presidential election about McCain and Obama.

Awesome work!

Also, for any educators out there, this is practically a readymade course assignment for any art, design, social studies, activism course.

From Coolhunting, via Marisa Olson

“Mom, I wanna stay hydrated but I ALSO wanna rock n roll!! Why doesn’t dad live with us anymore? And why do you drink white wine out of a coffee mug in the car? I HATE my new computer!”

via the very funny Nick Kroll

See also: Charlie Brooker’s 10 Biggest Cocks in Advertising

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 TomorrowMusuem via via Cinema Blend

This comes via Merit Karise a professor of media in Estonia who says this is “the best commercial ever made.” I’ll admit, it does have a way of sticking in your head.

The YouTube user who uploaded it explains, “An intense meat commercial from Soviet-era Estonia. I’m told that the words “beef” and “chicken” are what is repeated throughout.”

YouTube – 80s Estonian Meat Commercial