We’ve covered the New York Street Advertising Takeover quite a few times on this site, but we wanted to share this new short documentary by Sarah Berman. It does a great job of telling the story of the project and the positive impact it had on our streets. In related news, the first Toronto Street Advertising Takeover recently took place.

via On Corporate Graffiti « Urban Prankster.

Related posts:

1. DOOM Display Billboards « Urban Prankster
2. Urban Visions Panel at CCA (SF)
3. NY Street Art Takeover Microsite

View NYSAT Project Map 04-25-2009 in a larger map

This map shows illegal/unpermitted NPA City Outdoor locations located in Lower Manhattan. All the ads together cover approximately 29,450 square feet of our public environment.

On April 25th approximately 30 participants whitewashed nearly 120 street level billboards in broad daylight between the hours of 10:30am and 2:00pm.

At proximately 3:00pm nearly 50 artists and public individuals came back and used those blank canvases for the production of public messages instead of corporate messages.

These are the results

-Yellow locations were were not a part of this project -Blue dots indicate locations that were painted white -Red dots indicate locations that recieved artwork

Related posts:

1. Online Ad/Promo/Content Map
2. Artists Strike Back! The New York Street Advertising Takeover (NYSAT)/Municipal Landscape Control Committee (Groundswell)
3. Rocketboom on NY Street Ad Takeover

Related posts:

1. Artists Strike Back! The New York Street Advertising Takeover (NYSAT)/Municipal Landscape Control Committee (Groundswell)