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This Space Available

Steve Lambert — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:45:22 +0000

“I have never seen such a god damn group of selfish, eager hogs” –President Lyndon Johnson on the Billboard Industry

Over a year ago I interviewed for this documentary about visual pollution. In my research as an artist over the past 12 years I have learned more than most would ever care to about public space, graffiti laws, the advertising industry, and the ugly underside of marketing. I haven’t seen this film yet, but I’m glad to see the message making it’s way out with voices from within and without the industry.

It premieres at IFC Center in New York next week on November 5th.

About the “This Space Available” Film

“Billboards and commercial messages dominate the public space like never before. Can we reverse this visual pollution? This Space Available looks at diverse activists from the worlds of advertising, street art, and politics. Influenced by the writing of Marc Gobé ( Emotional Branding ), his daughter Gwenaelle directs with tremendous verve in her depiction of New Yorkers and others around the world who want to reclaim the integrity of their cities against an onslaught of visual pollution.” Read more at ThisSpaceAvailableFilm.com

Trailer

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Clips

Steve Lambert talking about an illegal billboard

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Jordan Seiler organizing the whitewashing of illegal ads

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Jordan Seiler

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You can’t even close your eyes to avoid this

Steve Lambert — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:01:07 +0000

The only people that love this kind of thing are those who create it and the small numbers who profit from it.

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Murketing: Absolut international incident?

American Films and Absurdist Film Fest

Steve Lambert — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:55:04 +0000

We’ve written about American Films before. They have a new video. Much like Warhol, except not as neat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRRQn44VHPM

And they’re organizing an Absurdist Film Festival. What’s not to like?

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On Corporate Graffiti – via Urban Prankster

Steve Lambert — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:25:08 +0000

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.

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Paradigm Shift

Steve Lambert — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:18:04 +0000

These guys are literally in Boise, Idaho. Awesome. Thanks Ed.

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Logorama – Ronald Raygun McDonald gets his revenge

Michael Mandiberg — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:00:38 +0000

[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… contradictory. But it is a hell of a great 13 minutes. Great villains, chase scenes, and a surreal vision of contemporary corporate life. It helps if you know Los Angeles.

Great fun. Sad truths. Fantastical visions.

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Corporate Giving, Social Networking, and the Devil

Whitewashers from NYSAT

Steve Lambert — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:24:38 +0000

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

“Everything You Want, Right Now!”

Steve Lambert — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:32:22 +0000

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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Graffiti Fail (Advertising)

Michael Mandiberg — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:57:21 +0000

Solving Problems…

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Product Placement video

Steve Lambert — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:46:56 +0000

This video was made by Matti Niinimäki using the audio from the Anti-Advertising Agency Portable Sound Unit project. The audio has been re-purposed so that various animated corporate mascots speak frankly about how they feel about advertising.

When Sara Dierck, Michael Dodge, and I made the audio for this almost 4 years ago, we released it openly for anyone to use through a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial license. We wanted the audio to be available for other people to use. This video is just the kind of thing we were hoping for.

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