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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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Conflux Festival Accepting Submissions

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 14, 2008

The Conflux Festival is accepting submissions for 2008. Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. At Conflux, visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public gather for four days to explore their urban environment. People from a […]

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Classic KAWS Footage From 1997

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 13, 2008

I remember seeing KAWS work in San Francisco when I was temping in downtown office buildings. It was a black and white ad for something in a Market Street kiosk and there was a green, multi headed snake attacking the model in the photo. I remember studying it trying to figure out if it was […]

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How Valuable Is Our Public Space?

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 12, 2008

How valuable is our public space to advertisers and marketers? An anonymous agent of the Anti-Advertising Agency made some calls. How much does it currently costs to have street level ads in a city like San Francisco? Here’s some examples. Market Street Kiosks. Background: Three sided containing four by six foot poster advertisements. Introduced to […]

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Anarchy: The Videogame

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | Published: May 2, 2008

I know I said that posting would be sparse if at all while I was doing my residency at AS220 but, you know, this picture from a park in Barcelona came across my virtual desk courtesy the brilliant Matt Malooly in Chicago and I had to share its deeply conflictual messages with you. As you […]

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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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BLF Escape; Publish Book!

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 29, 2008

Our pals at San Francisco’s Billboard Liberation Front, feeling the heat after their recent ATT/NSA campaign, “decided to temporarily relocate to safehouses on the European continent.” While hiding out they spoke at The Game is Up! in Ghent Belgium and distributed one of their many valuable texts. The new PDF of their The Art & […]

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Clear Channel Messed with LA Weekly and Lost!

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 3, 2008

by Jill Stewart at the LA Weekly Recently, reporter Christine Pelisek asked the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety for a list of all legal and illegal billboards in L.A. – an embarrassing document that will show the public all 11,000 “points of blight” allowed on local streets by City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, Mayor […]

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Article on Rami Tabello of IllegalSigns.CA

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 30, 2008

If you haven’t checked out IllegalSigns.CA yet, Rami Tabello is the man behind the removal of dozens of illegal billboards in Toronto. From IllegalSigns.CA: Humber College’s Convergence Magazine has published this article [PDF] about IllegalSigns.ca. It breaks a bit of new ground with the following quotes: “The billboard lobby is a very powerful lobby,they do […]

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With billboards, cities are facing the digital decision

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 29, 2008

By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Ah, for the good old days, when billboards were merely a blight you could avoid, sort of, by averting your eyes. Now the outdoor advertising companies have us right where they want us: stuck in traffic or at a red light, facing a digital sign that changes about every seven […]

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The BLF’s Newest Latest

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 28, 2008

Our friends over at the Billboard Liberation Front have posted their latest improvement. The fun doesn’t stop there. An excerpt rom the BLF’s press release: The Billboard Liberation Front today announced a major new advertising improvement campaign executed on behalf of clients AT&T and the National Security Agency. Focusing on billboards in the San Francisco […]

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James Howard Kunstler on Public Space

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 19, 2008

In this video James Howard Kunstler picks apart urban development in the United States, getting a few laughs in the process. In talking about creating “places that people care about” this struck me: “The public realm is the physical manifestation of the public good. And when you degrade the public realm you will automatically degrade […]

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Monsieur Chop Chop

By Emily Gallagher | Published: January 6, 2008

While Packard and Steve were dreaming of an awesome future on the bus stops and billboards of San Francisco, someone else was dreaming up much bloodier situations on the bus stops and billboards of London! An anonymous graffiti hero known as THE DECAPITATOR has been liberally choppin’ off heads, or at least, covering up the […]

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Arguing From Both Sides

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 29, 2007

Sao Paolo’s Billboard Ban is about to have it’s first birthday. The ban went into effect and remains, despite threats of multiple lawsuits and cries about the loss of (corporate) free speech issued this time last year. For example: But advertising and business groups regard the legislation as injurious to society and an affront to […]

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Marketers, the Military, and Me

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 18, 2007

You may have heard already about the A&E billboard beaming audio to the street in New York City. A speaker mounted above the billboard sends ultrasound waves from 7 stories up to a specific location below. Because it’s highly directional, for people outside the target area it’s hardly, if at all, audible. Here’s a demonstration […]

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