Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: anthropology, palestine, street art, public art, billboard, ☭☭☭, gaza, israel, mark seager, gaza massacre, islamic university, taxis, bent jbeil, hassan nasrallah, anarchism
According to JustSeeds, this sick piece ” appeared yesterday in the South Bronx. The wall faces the Bruckner Expressway, a highly used elevated highway passing through the Bronx”. It got me wondering about graffiti in Gaza itself, and I came across Mark Seager’s amazing photographs. He says that these photos were taken during visits in 2001 at the beginning of the Intifada, and again in 2003 circa the Iraqi invasion. They’re almost all the more precious in that these walls are most likely bombed and decimated by now, with their images erased forever – unlike images buffed away on city orders, that still leaveghostly outlines.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: berlin fashion week, billboard, consumerism, walmart, xoooox
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In the 1980s, people feared that HIV might take over the world. Today they might have much the same worries about Swedish mega-retailer H+M. This billboard liberation from German artist XOOOOX, to coincide with Berlin Fashion Week, is pretty amazing. [via: Wooster]. XOOOOX doesn’t seem to have that much stuff up yet but I do like these rebranded benches. Font and a flourishy crest will go surprisingly far towards bougie-luxe appeal it seems.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: anamorphic art, art, billboard, caetano ferrer, korea, optical illusion, public art, seoul, street art, tracy lee stum, trees, trompe l'oeil
| Maybe trompe l’œil isn’t the right term for these kind of mindbending visuals – optical illusions? They’re still pretty fascinating all the same, especially the 3D anamophic pieces by artist Tracy Lee Stum. Who doesn’t love silly jump poses? If you think about it though, almsot everyone who passes through the spot for a picture must make the same, or similar leaps in in the air.
At that, each piece of public art probably develops an associated collective pose. Like someone struggling under the presumable weight of Noguchi’s Red Cube in Manhattan’s Financial District. Or holler-riding the Wall Street Bull, for example. I guess it’s not a bad thing. |
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, ☭☭☭, billboard, billboard liberation front, BLF, civil liberties, consumerism, culture jamming, FISA, obama, privacy?, spy bill, surveillance society, western freedoms, wiretapping
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I’m not much of a Kant fan to be honest. Or of universal morality in general (sorry Megan, Sarah, that guy at the next table who moved to the other end of the Hungarian Pastry Shop). This culture jammed billboard by the aptly named Billboard Liberation Front, however, I can definitely get behind. |
A pretty rad anticonsumerist (and often anti-smoking, it seems) group, the BLF have been altering/improving billboards for a few decades now. I especially like that the original advertisers of each project are listed as the ‘clients’ that these subversions are executed ‘on behalf of’. You can find their pretty solid anti-advertising manifesto here.
