Light Criticism from the AAA

This is so true…check it out!

A new project by the Anti-Advertising Agency with Graffiti Research Lab.
Advertising is the vandalism of the Fortune 500.

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Advertising is the vandalism of the Fortune 500. And despite that, we still don’t like it.Between October 2006 and December 2006, the City of New York has removed or obscured 59 illegal banners on sidewalk sheds. In that same period, Citibank Chase was forced to remove all illegal sidewalk projections at branches around Manhattan. And now, years into NYC’s crackdown on graffiti writers and protesters, after we’ve watched our friends be detained, arrested, beat, fined, tried, and given real jail sentences, not a single corporate toy from any ad firm has had to do any time.This could mean only one thing. They’ve called off the law. Open City. Let’s all get to work.This is the first collaboration between the Anti-Advertising Agency and Graffiti Research Lab. Modified from Ji Lee’s Abstractor TV. We used black foam core ($10/sheet) cut with a laser cutter – however, this project can be done with an x-acto blade, black construction paper, and duct tape for next to nothing. It can be repeated using any backlit display – bus shelters, display ads, television store windows… dream big, act now.Download 1024 x 768 animated gif below:
NYC’s TRUE GRAFFITI PROBLEM
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2 Comments

FearTheRipper

February 9, 2007 - 6:56 am | Permalink

This is absolutely awesome! Huge respect for people behind this idea!!
That’s absolutely true! All those whinings about “graffiti which destroys our beatiful city” ain’t shit, while they are selling every piece of wall to corporate monkeys-suits.
Who asks people if they want to see all those crappy ads? Maybe all those heroic mayors and pig-chiefs, trying to suck as much money as they can, win another election and then get back home to have sex with their children?
Arresting people for graffiti they just dig they own grave. they just trying to turn everybody to snitch bitch, reporting kids to the pigs… Soon they will start to snitch their own kids…

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