April 29, 2008 – 11:00 pm
Our pals at San Francisco’s Billboard Liberation Front, feeling the heat after their recent ATT/NSA campaign, “decided to temporarily relocate to safehouses on the European continent.” While hiding out they spoke at The Game is Up! in Ghent Belgium and distributed one of their many valuable texts.
The new PDF of their The Art & [...]
As promised, I’ve posted more instructions on how to do some previous projects - tools, techniques, and tricks . This round I explain how I made extra large, clear stencils to paint out poster advertising in the Mission District of SF in 2000. Because it can be done in high traffic areas in [...]
I posted an improvised ad-buffing tool I made recently onto instructables. It costs less than $6 and can obscure advertising up to 12 high (or higher if you find an extending pole). It’s not the most sophisticated, but it gets the job done. Please, make your own and put it to use!
I [...]
Artist Jasom Eppink has built on our project, Light Criticism (and others), with his own invention - the Pixelator. C’mon folks, let’s keep this going - build on it!
October 23, 2005 – 9:55 pm
The AAA Portable Sound Units are small sound-systems triggered by a motion detector. They playback on-the-street interviews with the public about their opinions on outdoor advertising. Installed in the field, the units are designed to run on battery packs and conserve power by turning on only when pedestrians pass by them.
The Interviews
The project started in [...]