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I spent the last week producing some videos for Barak Obama for the web. Note the excellent Shepard Fairey poster as the backdrop. Check out the lot of them on Youtube.
New Retna Mural
From a Manu Chao song:
Por el suelo hay una compadrita
Que ya nadie se para a mirar
Por el suelo hay una mamacita
Que se muere de no respetar
Pachamama te veo tan triste
Pachamama me pongo a llorarDirt cheap, here’s a female companion
That nobody bothers to see
Dirt cheap, here’s a mamacita
whos dying, she has no respect
Pachamama, I see you so sad
Pachamama, I’m going to cry
“The mother goddess, Pachamama, presided over the indigenous peoples of the Andes for centuries. In parts of Bolivia, Chile, and Peru, she was venerated as the Virgin Mary—a legacy of Spanish colonialism. Today, on a street corner in Hollywood, California, a mural in her honor sanctifies the City of Angels. Three native Angelino scribes, Retna, Dame, and Werc, use the concrete canvasses of Los Angeles as a gallery to display their reverence. …”
Read the rest of the story here
Rambo Ad Bites Street Art
You’ve probably seen the looming Rambo face which started popping up on billboards last month to advertise the new Rambo flick. Pretty interesting that the main ad campaign is biting stencilists and street art. Once again street artists influence people trying to promote products instead of ideas. Not to say that the ad doesn’t look relatively good. But ain’t it funny that you can spend a whole bunch of money if you are a film studio and put up the poster all over town to advertise a violence-filled film, but if you are a broke kid with a good design for self promotion you are a felon!?!
It was also pretty funny that the LA Times article calls it a nod to Banksy. Is Banksy the first and only stencilist? Or is he the only one rich ad executives are aware of and trying to bite?
Here’s what the LA Times had to say:
“In a city where massive billboards for movies and TV shows hover over every intersection like demigods, the “Rambo” poster stands out; it’s at once eye-catching and subtle, more evocative of a hipster’s T-shirt than a marketing scheme to promote the fourth (and first, in 20 years) installment in the “Rambo” series.
The stencil-and-spray-paint image, done by Jason Lindeman of Ignition Print, seems a nod to the work of Banksy, the infamous and ironical British graffiti artist whose work now commands high sums. “
“This was never meant to be the whole backbone of the campaign,” Palen said, noting that the image has ended up as an 80-foot billboard in Times Square. “
Conneticut Curtails Billboards
In the continuing battle over public space - Conneticut’s governor Jodi Rell has begun curtailing billboards in her state. Her executive order “halts any new contracts to build or maintain “outdoor advertising structures, devices or displays” located on state property.” The billboard industry is aghast arguing that the state will lose so much revenue from the billboards.
I am continually amazed at how little billboard companies pay for the right to alter our visual landscape. In Conneticut the state only “receives $80,000 a year in annual permit fees from (all) roadside billboards. The fee is $20, $40 or $60 a year, depending on the size of the billboard.”
$60 a year - there ought to be a law.
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