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Sony Stealth Sucks
There’s an excellent entry up over at Scatterbox detailing Sony’s perfidious scum-suckery (ed – penultimate ‘s’ chipperly added because The Consumerist is, at heart, a family publication). First: the...
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Tats Cru Sprays for Pay in Williamsburg Again
The ‘graffiti’ ad for the Hummer H3 by the Bronx-based ‘Tats Cru’ wasn’t well-received. While it started out relatively clean (and nice looking, if we had to be honest), but the residents of the...
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Graffiti Artists Buff The Man’s Billboards
Buffing is when graffiti artist’s work gets scrubbed over by The Man. Stieg point us to what happens when a street artist buffs The Man back, in this case, a billboard in the Red Hook borough of...
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Verizon Fined For DC Graffiti Campaign
More guerrilla marketing via public vandalism: Verizon has been fined $1050 for spraying graffiti on Washington D.C. sidewalks advertising the Yellow Pages. To be fair to Verizon, the ads were sprayed...
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Ads Call Graffiti ‘Pollution’; Grafiiti Says, ‘Likewise’
BBDO launched a pro-bono advertising campaign for the city of San Francisco desgined to curb graffiti. Its premise is that you don’t stop it in your neighborhood, soon taggers will overtake your house....
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Advertising Equals Graffiti
New York City has these special video billboards at the top of subway stops playing silent movies for Lexus, Chanel, and NBC. It’s kinda beautiful, and kinda annoying. The Graffiti Research Lab and the...
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Budget Demands $2,080.93 To Repair Preexisting Damage
Kevin noted on his Budget rental forms that his truck was covered with graffiti and other nicks and scratches before driving off the lot. As soon as he returned the truck, the lot agent pointed out a...
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Who Is This BNE Guy Putting Stickers Everywhere?
Who is BNE? Why are cities of the world covered in stickers bearing the graffiti artist’s initials? And why is McDonald’s his biggest rival? “While in Japan, I suddenly realized that other graffiti...
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"Stop Shopping Its Sick! Barf!"
There is an abandoned building in Brooklyn that periodically sports a new piece of anti-capitalist graffiti. The latest, descending to self-parody, says “Stop shopping its sick! Barf!” I laugh when I...
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L.A. City Councilman Proposes Making Spray Paint Buyers Provide Addresses, IDs
Los Angeles is a city crawling with artists and graffiti vandals, and both sectors — as well as other folks who like to paint stuff for legitimate reasons — are big on buying spray paint. In order to...
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Feds Searching For Graffiti Artist Vandalizing National Parks And Leaving An...
How could you tag something better than nature already has? (Raj Hanchanahal Photography)The idea of leaving a place better than when you found it is a fine idea when it comes to things like tidying up...
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Acme Foundry Would Like To Thank Whoever Finally Added Wile E. Coyote, Road...
Acme FoundryOn the one hand, graffiti is technically illegal, and most companies would be pretty darn peeved to find a stranger had made unapproved additions to their building. But on the other hand,...
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Tourists Suspected Of Adding Their Initials To Walls Of Rome’s Colosseum,...
(BentonJ)What is it about a 2,000-year-old famous structure that makes tourists think it isn’t yet complete without their initials joining the blood, sweat and tears of gladiators past on the walls?...
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