November 4, 2008 – 2:34 pm
Better do this before tomorrow. These are some of the favorites I’ve seen in the past few months. Post your favorites in the comments…
From Jon Winet’s Electoral College project (now on Add-Art):
Best inadvertent No on Prop 8 in California video (wait for it)
Gay Scientists discover the Christian Gene
Batman for Mayor – the posters
Batman [...]
November 4, 2008 – 1:08 pm
There’s a national election today. What? A hundred other websites didn’t tell you?
P.S. Bring your book in case there are lines.
October 18, 2008 – 6:57 pm
This New York Times article from Saturday, October 18th takes a look at Obama’s recent spending flurry. Ads in Guitar Hero? I hear he can shred on Master of Puppets. I’m sold.
October 3, 2008 – 11:18 pm
This is graffiti:
it’s spray paint
it’s done without permission on someone else’s property
it’s illegal
politicians hate it
It’s the expression of a citizen (or small group of citizens) in public space speaking to fellow citizens. Anyone, willing to take the legal [...]
October 3, 2008 – 9:00 am
The L.A. Times is reporting Clear Channel has its eye on 674 state owned digital billboards on California Highways. The billboards were installed to alert drivers to road hazards and for Amber Alerts providing “urgent bulletins in the most serious child-abduction cases.”
But now the state is listening to Clear Channel.
Apparently California needs money. [...]
September 28, 2008 – 9:13 pm
I know, total cliche’d title. Oh well.
I bought carbon offsets on a Continental flight. I particularly like the fact that you could choose your own science… and your own cost…
I really wonder about offsetting. For a while I thought of it as a useful costing mechanism. And planting trees is a [...]
August 25, 2008 – 9:00 am
from the Village Voice with IllegalBillboards.org’s own Jordan Seiler.
City government and citizen vigilantes wage a losing battle against Clear Channel and illegal ads
By Elizabeth Dwoskin
Over the past seven years, Jordan Seiler estimates that he’s taken down hundreds of billboards, posters, and other signs to replace advertising in public places with his own artwork.
Armed with [...]