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Still Popping Up On The Internets: A Sean Tejaratchi Quote Attributed To Banksy

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it.
They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs. 

If You Can Read This Thank Your Optometrist

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It's Possible There Is Something That Screams ACTION MOVIE! Better Than A Guy With A Gun, But Whatever It Is, We're Pretty Sure The Client Doesn’t Want To See It

This guy John Burgerman is staging “interventions” in front of subway 2-sheets as a commentary on the blasted amount of violence in outdoor advertising.

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Additionally, we found this item at Ban Billboard Blight about guns on L.A. billboards:

"As the national debate over guns goes on, L.A. billboard companies and advertisers continue to saturate the visual environment with ads for movies and TV shows that feature actors firing and brandishing guns.

Mark Wahlberg, a star in 2 Guns, was quoted in an Australian newspaper in 2007 as saying he would be happy if all guns were taken away."

The article includes a link to this Deadline Hollywood clip posted shortly after Newton: 

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Going through our mailbag, we came across this from a reader sent to us back in October:

Dear Edwina,

These have been appearing on the bus shelter at Pico and Motor for the last couple of weeks (right across from the Fox lot where it'll do the most damage) . I forgot to take a picture of the one where this person calls the people responsible for the ad a "bunch of slobs". I was trying to come up with something pithy to say but I'm part of Hollyweird, so I'm not capable of higher thought.

We aren’t certain, but this could be the work of Public Ad Campaign. We ran a similar-themed item a while back about NYC artist Jilly Ballistic.

We see how you high-strung art directors might get your tighty whities in a twist seeing an excellent example of key art like this being defaced; however, the bus shelters may be privately owned, but the poster is viewed from a public space. As Fran Lebowitz once said, “Your right to wear a green polyester suit ends where it meets my eyes."

In answer to the editorial comments slapped onto these works of art and commerce: Hollyweird is simply markeing to its most actively engaged viewership, which just happens to be in a state of arrested adolescence. The stupid, the tasteless, the violent and the offensive are a prized demographic and higher thought will only result in low ratings and flat opening weekends.

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Getting The LED Out

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

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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.

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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?

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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 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.