MonKeyArtAwards

Getting The LED Out

BanBillboardBlight.com sheds some light on LA’s darkened digiboards.

Advertising In The Great Outdoors

If you’re like us, nothing affronts your sense of artistic integrity more than having members of the public deface advertising posted in public places. So imagine our outrage when we came across Jilly Ballistic's work on flikr

Ballistic’s oeuvre consists mainly of layering unsightly computer dialog boxes over exquisitely crafted outdoor ads. An act of hooliganism that will no doubt be cheered on by Philistines who fail to recognize real art when they see it.

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TWEET Mentioned by @JillyBallistic: Please continue to ignore this advertisement. Thank you. (M15 bus shelter; Allen St & Stanton St)

CANNOT OPEN PAGE Cannot load due to a lack of substance. Apologies, Jilly Ballistic (3rd Ave & 14th St; L train)

File > Move To Trash ("That's My Boy" movie poster; Manhattan bound L at Lorimer)

Low Battery Warning (advertising monitors at 7th Ave & 23rd St)

We Spoke Too Soon: Outdoor Advertising IS A Crime.

If you’re like us, when you want up-to-minute coverage on outdoor entertainment advertising in Los Angeles, you go to Acme Bail Bonds – Blogging The Bail World.

Kayvan Setareh, 49, of Pacific Palisades was arrested at his home Friday night and ordered held on $1-million bail after workers used bolts and wire to wrap a supergraphic around the face of the old First National Bank on Hollywood and Highland.

Read more about it here.

 
 

Outdoor Advertising Is Not A Crime. Yet.

From Mercury News: The Los Angeles city attorney's office has filed its first charges under a ban passed last year on the giant billboards known as supergraphics that cloak buildings with enormous movie posters and other garish ads.

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The civil complaint filed Monday alleges violations of California's Outdoor Advertising Act and argues that supergraphic signs endanger the covered buildings' occupants, distract drivers and hurt the look of streets.

Advertising In The Great Outdoors

If you’re like us, you can’t help but notice how much network and cable TV has come to dominate outdoor advertising in LA.

Even on the most casual cross-town drive -- and what better word than “casual” to describe our blasé blend of texting and driving -- we are seeing ads for CBS’s new fall shows and the CW’s Melrose Place and Vampire Diaries on countless billboards, bus sides and bus shelters. (However, we're not seeing as much from ABC, NBC and FOX. Come on, you other websters. Tick, tock!)

This brings us back to our complaint re: the Key Art Awards' exclusion of a category for network and cable TV advertising. Even our beloved IMPawards pays scant attention to this branch of entertainment advertising. Besides, as far as we know, IMPawards is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. So what do they know about network fall launches? Haligonians probably aren't even aware that Tuesday is the new hump day.

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Have You Seen The New Eddie Murphy Trailer?

Advertising In The Great Outdoors

Dear Edwina,

I saw that carefully executed alteration of Ignition’s design tonight and though I'd drop it in the pot.

It's on La Brea and San Vicente.

Being an imported talent, I can't help but remember my history class... isn't it how it all started with Hitler?

Best regards, Imported Talent

Nokia Launches App That Reads Movie Posters

Nokia is rolling out its "Point and Find" app which lets cell phone users take a photo of a movie poster and instantly get film clips, reviews and local theater listings.

The way this whizbang gizmo works, as our IT guy explained to us in that smug, weasly way of his, is it reads bar codes and uses the phone's GPS system to look up the information in an online database.

No word yet on whether it can detect the number of head strips in the key art, which Photoshop filters were used and/or abused or what other one-sheets it most resembles.

Waaah! Me Want Pointy Thingy!

If you’re like us, you grew up hearing mommy and daddy talk about the old days, back when TV advertising meant a half-page, black & white tune-in ad in TV Guide. But now, even a casual drive down to Taco Bell reveals how much television has come to dominate outdoor advertising in our fair city. 

So, join us if you will, in flinging a heaping pile of steaming poo at the Key Art Advisory Board for failing to create an awards category for network and cable TV outdoor and print advertising.

 

The Bitter Truth In Advertising

  As seen on Public Ad Campaign.