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Subway HD Screens: Round 6 – Bogota

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 27, 2011

Pixel Hacking – Decorando la publicidad If you missed the previous rounds, check em out here: Abstractor.tv – Ji Lee Light Criticism – Anti-Advertising Agency and Graffiti Research Lab Pixelator – Jason Eppink Hold Fast Sell Out – Posterchild Stained Glass – Posterchild And of course Aram Bartholl had a roll in the lineage.

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You Can’t Airbrush Personality

By Steve Lambert | Published: November 29, 2010

Apparently this is all over Tumblr but I can’t find an image credit – sorry!

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One can do so much with 1 pen

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 10, 2009
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Hacked Electronic Signs

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 2, 2009

This is making the rounds could inspire some creative action: There’s a set of instructions on how to hack the signs floating around the internet. My favorite series is over on the MIT site. Thanks Kelli Anderson for the tip!

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Poster Boy Interview

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 16, 2009

via public ad campaign – which is kicking ass lately.

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Photoshopped advertising

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 14, 2009

They’re all retouched… from epoxy on flickr see also – our post on Detouch (Thanks Kelli)

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“The Dog Dies” all over Los Angeles

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 29, 2008

via TomorrowMusuem via via Cinema Blend

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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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RL Spam

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 8, 2008

courtesy of Difusor.

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Autonomous public art workshop, Madrid

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 21, 2008

I just found this in the documentation of a Autonomous public art workshop, Madrid. Good stuff… An intervention that intelligently targets a certain Achilles’ heel of advertising. As pointed out by culture jamming documenter Dave Gross in his brilliant piece Interrupt pathological, media simulated social interaction, it is by engaging us in a fictional personal […]

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On Times Square

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 6, 2008

A tour of Times Square with en eye on the advertising. The video goes into the empty Times Square building to see the computers that control the signs. Wait, did he say the screen could be “controlled by any computer”??? Hmmm… via Gothamist

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Subway Poster Remix Graffiti

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 20, 2008

(via Adam Rosen and these guys)

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Billboard: All Religions Are Fairy Tales

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 1, 2008

Found in the bottom of my inbox; this story from WFTV in Florida. Read all the way through to see my favorite part… ###Business Owners, Customers Upset Over Controversial Billboard### ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — It looked harmless enough, but the words on a billboard unnerved so many people that a popular restaurant nearby actually lost […]

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Clear Channel: Digital Billboards Rented, Not Hacked

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 26, 2008

The Los Angeles street artist known as Skullphone managed to get his iconic skull-holding-a-cellphone image to display on 10 prominent digital billboards throughout Los Angeles last week — leading some blogs to report that hed hacked into the signs. Alas, Clear Channel Outdoors, which owns the billboards, says no. "He paid to get it up," […]

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