Author Archives: Steve Lambert

AAAFFF Award Ceremony Coverage

By Steve Lambert | Published: October 1, 2008

Announcing the winner of the Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom Award; Sarah Gibble! Read Sarah’s tale of how she was sucked into the advertising industry vortex and how she escaped!

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Add-Art is now Firefox 3 compatible!

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 21, 2008

Great news; Add-Art, the Firefox browser extension that replaces ads with art is now Firefox 3 compatible. The extension blocks advertising and replaces it with art images that change every two weeks. The art comes from contemporary artists and curators – read a review from Rhizome. If you’ve been waiting for Add-Art to work in […]

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Product Placement in Music

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 19, 2008

Last month Jeff Crouse received an email from Adam Kluger asking if Jeff wanted his fake, Second Life sweatshop “Double Happiness Jeans” featured in the lyrics of a Pussycat Dolls song. Jeff wrote back a hilarious response. Then Kluger threatened us with a lawsuit for… well, whatever straws were in reach. You can read about […]

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AAAFFF Award Ceremony Tonight!

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 19, 2008

Other Options: Panel discussion + AAAFFF Awards Ceremony Eyebeam September 19, 7PM 540 W. 21st St. Panelists: Josh Greene, Service-Works; Geraldine Juárez, Tanda Foundation; Joanna Spitzner, JS Foundation. Moderated by Abigail Satinsky and Ben Schaafsma of InCUBATE and Sunday Soup Granting Fund. Followed by the Anti-Advertising Agency (Anne Elizabeth Moore and Eyebeam senior fellow Steve […]

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The Penguin “gets it”

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 17, 2008
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Inflatable Polar Bears – Environmental Defense Fund PSA

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 17, 2008

Inflatable Polar Bears – Environmental Defense Fund – Very Short List Bravo, the environmental defense fund appropriates street art and gets it right. Mass communication can be a powerful thing when not used to sell cars.

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Advertising wont solve economic problems for NYC

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 16, 2008

Another bad deal to trade public space for money from The New York Sun: Council Member David Yassky of Brooklyn is calling for the city to begin allowing advertising on municipal trash cans and suggested that such a move, which he estimated could bring $2.5 million in revenue, would help during difficult economic times. “We […]

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In Florida, Billboards Trump Trees : NPR

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 10, 2008

excerpted from – In Florida, Billboards Trump Trees : NPR Highway 192 used to be exceptionally plain. It was lined by weed-filled ditches, with no sidewalks and poor lighting. It was drab. So the property owners voted to tax themselves $29 million to make the roadway safer and prettier. “Look at it today,” says Lizasuain. […]

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“Bomb It” Documentary

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 9, 2008

Within the first minute of this interview with Jon Reiss about his new documentary “Bomb It” Reiss cuts to the heart, talking about the battle for public space between graffiti writers and advertising. If you don’t “get” graffiti or what the big deal about public space is, this might be the movie for you. You […]

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RL Spam

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 8, 2008

courtesy of Difusor.

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the latest news

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 8, 2008

Quickstyle: 1. Where’s our Anne Elizabeth Moore been? Reporting on the RNC police state crackdown. You can read about it on Daily Kos. 2. Jordan Seiler is finding Midtown is full of illegal billboards. 3. Jordan also found an Avenue C mural that’s been covered with ads. Boooo! 4. If you care about changing the […]

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No freedom of speech on billboards – even when you can pay.

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 5, 2008

Billboard Co. Says No to Soldier Portraits in St. Paul A billboard company has canceled its contract to display one of photographer Suzanne Opton’s portraits of active-duty soldiers on an outdoor space in St. Paul, Minnesota, site of the Republican National Convention. Opton, a New York-based photographer, shot her “Soldiers Faces” series at Fort Drum, […]

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The Bright Idea Shade

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 1, 2008

Bright Idea Shade from Michael Mandiberg on Vimeo. Oh advertising. Yes it can be shallow and harmful. But I have such great respect for it because the tools at work can be so effective – in social marketing for example. Which is part of the idea behind this whole AAA project.  And those ideas seep […]

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Raisin Brahms

By Steve Lambert | Published: August 29, 2008

Raisin Brahms (excellent pro-Art-ed video PSA) via simon jolly and boing boing

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Ad Creep Hits the Bike Lanes

By Steve Lambert | Published: August 28, 2008

from treehugger: We have complained before about ad creep, how the public realm is being taken over by private marketers. I don’t know if I should be happy or sad that the Egg Farmers of Canada have determined that there are enough cyclists in London, Ontario that they want to pay to advertise to them […]

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