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Public/Private Partnerships: Will Commercialization Save Our City Parks? | Ban Billboard Blight

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 5, 2011

  A great post over at Ban Billboard Blight about the move to allow advertising in Los Angeles Public Parks.   Public/Private partnerships. At last week’s meeting of the L.A. City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee, the term kept bobbing like a life preserver grasped for by city agencies at risk of being drowned in [...]

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L.A. Council Members Endorse Plan To Sell Advertising In City Parks

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 30, 2011

Ocean Front Walk in Venice is locally known as The Boardwalk, although it’s all concrete—the only boards in sight belong to distant surfers waiting to catch a wave. That view to the west is free of the intense commercialism of the inland side of the the Boardwalk, with its crowded T-shirt and souvenir shops, but [...]

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Illegal Supergraphic Ad Removed From Historic Hollywood Hotel

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 1, 2010

During his 2009 election campaign, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich promised to crack down on anyone putting up illegal billboards and supergraphic signs. Continuing to make good on that promise, his office has gotten the owners of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to remove the latest in a series of illegal supergraphics that have covered the walls [...]

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Movement Happening on Illegal Signs

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 28, 2010

March has been a bad time for illegal signs in LA. Finally Illegal Advertisers are going to jail.  Here’s info on some of the latest: LA Weekly profiles advertisers in Los Angeles, as well as AAA compatriot Public Ad Campaign’s Jordan Seiler. Here’s how it starts “Supergraphic multimillionaire Barry Rush couldn’t have been pleased to [...]

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Dirty, Dirty, Dirty

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 18, 2010

The supergraphic sign above for the movie “Prince of Persia” on a Westwood office building is legally permitted as an on-site sign, which the L.A. sign code defines as a sign directing attention to a product or service generally sold or offered on the premises where the sign is located. There is no movie theater [...]

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Owner Arrested For Hollywood Supergraphic Previously Cited For Sign Law Violations

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 1, 2010

Friday night’s arrest of Kayvan Setareh for allowing an 8-story supergraphic ad to be wrapped across three sides of an historic Hollywood building was not the first time the Pacific Palisades man has run afoul of the city’s sign code, according to building department records. In January, 2007, a citation was issued for an illegal [...]

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Logorama – Ronald Raygun McDonald gets his revenge

By Michael Mandiberg | Published: February 22, 2010

[Oscars 2010 Mejor Cortometraje] – Logorama This is 16 minutes long animated film of logos and and advertising characters produced by a serious 3D house in France, and nominated for an Oscar, but yet in dire threat of lawsuits for use of corporate logos. At least this is according to the blogs, which, are… well… [...]

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Sign Companies, Property Owners, Advertising Agencies, Major Corporations Thumb Their Noses at L.A.’s New Off-Site Sign Ban

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 10, 2009

Almost a year after the L.A. City Council approved a moratorium on new off-site and supergraphic signs, and four months after it replaced that temporary measure with a permanent ban, advertisers and sign companies continue to wrap, hang, and otherwise display their multi-story supergraphic signs on the walls of buildings throughout the city. So why [...]

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Office Tenants Plagued by Series of Illegal Supergraphic Signs; Do the L.A. City Attorney and District Councilman Care?

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 2, 2009

Los Angeles, Toronto, San Francisco, New York; what big city has the outdoor advertising industry under control? Last March, we reported on the case of an illegal supergraphic sign advertising Chase Bank installed over the second-floor office windows of a building at 7201 Melrose Ave. The city issued a citation to the building owner, Macculloch [...]

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L.A. Weekly Reporter Wins Top Press Club Award For Investigative Article on Billboards

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 25, 2009

Congratulations to Christine Pelisek, whose L.A. Weekly article, “Billboards Gone Wild,” won this year’s L.A. Press Club Award for best hard news story in newspapers of more than 100,000 circulation. This article that focused on the woeful job the city has done controlling illegal billboards brought the issue to widespread public attention for the first [...]

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Why It Matters (from Ban Billboard Blight)

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 11, 2009

Dennis over at LA’s Ban Billboard Blight answers the question “Can’t you find something more important to be bothered about?” Fighting The Outdoor Advertising Invasion: A Trivial Pursuit? From time to time, someone will take offense at our activities on the grounds that advocating for protection of the visual environment from an onslaught of commercial [...]

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Report From The Billboard Jungle in Los Angeles (illegalbillboards.ca)

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 9, 2009

Protesters picket a billboard executive’s house in this KCET documentary on Los Angeles’ new signs by-law; but the funny part is when Mayor Villaraigosa, in what is not his best moment, asks volunteers for help in investigating illegal billboards and is laughed at by a town hall crowd. via illegalbillboards.ca and they have more coverage [...]

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“Everything You Want, Right Now!”

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 5, 2009

Video walk through of the Los Angeles solo show… Steve Lambert solo show walkthrough from Steve Lambert on Vimeo. See more pics at visitsteve.com

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Cash-Strapped L.A. Times Shills Shamelessly for ‘The Soloist’

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 14, 2009

The once-mighty Los Angeles Times, which is fighting for its life, is under fire by its staff for a four-page Sunday advertorial section promoting the movie “The Soloist,” which carries the Times’ logo and contains an interview with its columnist Steve Lopez, who is played by Robert Downey Jr. in the movie opening on April [...]

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Public Ad Campaign’s Recent Five

By jordan | Published: March 13, 2009

Tough economic times call for inventive new ways to use the city, and outdoor advertising is never one to shy away from trying new things, even if they are illegal. Here’s one new form of visual intrusion trying to make its illegal mark on our city. How do you figure out how many illegal billboards [...]

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