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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.
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.
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!)
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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 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.
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.
As seen on Public Ad Campaign.
