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Advertising & Consumerism
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Activist busted after defacing anti-Islam ad in Times Sq. station
Read more: Activist busted after defacing anti-Islam ad in Times Sq. stationAn Egyptian-born activist was arrested yesterday for spray-painting subway billboards that call enemies of Israel “savages” — amid a wave of vandalism unleashed on the inflammatory ads, which have divided the city. Mona Eltahawy, a self-described “liberal Muslim,” strolled up…
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Reverse Graffiti
Read more: Reverse GraffitiReverse graffiti is form of street art that involves carving into the dirt and dust that surrounds us. Artists subtract from a surface in order to create a negative image within the positive, often quite dark layer of grime. They…
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Sao Paulo goes completely ad-free with Clean City Law
Read more: Sao Paulo goes completely ad-free with Clean City LawMayor Gilberto Kassab passed a Clean City Law that banned all public advertising in Sao Paulo, one of the world’s most populous cities. The mayor gained the support of the city’s elites in pressing the law as an anti-pollution measure…
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Yomango Fashion Show
Read more: Yomango Fashion Show“On July 5, 2002, a strange new brand began cropping up in the streets of Barcelona. That day, at the height of sales season, more than fifty people rushed through the center of Barcelona to the Bershka clothing store to…
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Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance
Read more: Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance“Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance is a participatory experiment. It is art and action. It came into being in 2001 as a response to Adbusters magazine’s call for foolish action on the first of April. What began as a single happening in…
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Nadia Plesner v Commercialism
Read more: Nadia Plesner v CommercialismDanish 26-year-old art student Nadia Plesner designed this T-shirt depicting a Darfurian child holding a Louis Vuitton handbag as commentary on global disparity as it relates to war, developing nations, commercialism, and media. In 2006, the fashion house sued Plesner…
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activists culture jam anti-Muslim ads in NYC subways
Read more: activists culture jam anti-Muslim ads in NYC subwaysNew York activists responded to a recent anti-Muslim subway campaign by plastering stickers over ads depicting the World Trade Center in flames, juxtaposed with text quoting the Koran. The day-glow orange and yellow stickers warn “Caution: This is war propaganda.…
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Gay Shame S.F.
Read more: Gay Shame S.F.From the screaming queens of the Stonewall Riots to the contemporary Human Rights Campaign corporate gays, the politics and methods of queer activism have clearly fluxuated. By the late 1970s, the radicalism of stonewall was replaced with a more formal…
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Poor Little Fish
Read more: Poor Little FishIs it possible that through affective design we can change our consumer behavior? Yan Lu and his “Little Fish Project” offer a design inspired solution to excess use of water. “As consumption is incalculable, saving is often neglected through daily…
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Double Happiness
Read more: Double HappinessArchitect Didier Faustino strips a billboard down to its skeleton, repurposes it as a swing set, and names it Double Happiness. This “urban reactivation device” needs to become a world wide phenomenon. Imagine billboard swing sets waiting at every destination.…