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Tag Archives: Billboard Liberation Front
final sale: everything must go!
Just make sure you win the last game.Under new management. Oh yeah. Remember: nice guys finish last. Wailing not whining. Its called the wailing wall; a cry of anguish of the forsaken, and not a whining of the comfortable piqued … Continue reading
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Tagged Adbusters, amelia earhart, Amy Goodman, Billboard Liberation Front, bob marley, Bombing Science, cornel west, debbie melnyk, Edward S. Herman, Eli Siegel, Fernand Leger, Gustav Landauer, Jack Napier, John Heartfield, John Lennon, leo durocher, louis durocher, mark coop, Martin Buber, Michael Moore, New York Dolls, Noam Chomsky, ralph kercheval, rick caine, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Steve Jobs, steve jobs death, stuart manley, trade mark direct
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I’m lovin’ it: burger all dressed with guilt
Is McDonald’s the ultimate symbol of imperialism? It seems to be a composite symbol of many factors. Sometimes what we think it is acts as a facade, a narrative of disavowal that is a bit superficial since these stories are … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Billboard Liberation Front, christianity and capitalism, Max Weber, mcdonalds marketing, mcdonalds marketing europe, Ron English, Sigmund Freud, steve easterbrook, steven shapin, Tristan Tzara, tristan tzara lenin chess, Walter Benjamin
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signboard liberation front
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) since we’ve been doing the dirty and talking about that there sex stuff and all (“screw” is such a great conversation opener, ya know?), i thought i’d post this curious little sign. sort of sez it … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, Billboard Liberation Front, BLF, ferko goldinger, fred h. dore, funny signs, The Tea Party
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and now a word from our sponsors…
Is advertising destructive? Its an almost half-a-trillion dollar a year business. All for the sake of peddling goods and services. When you think about the societal allocation of resources; basically to reinforce and expand consumerism and establish rank and status … Continue reading
bursting into now time: a visual wash
Acts of bursting into now time. Penetrating the vain progress of time as the catastrophic. Creating a point where time ceases to flow; a redemptive space where time is truly green. Its the moral struggle for the good life by … Continue reading
billboard liberation
The billboard liberation movement. Taking back public space, one board at a time. … Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): There was an epidemic of altered billboards in the Seattle area back in the early 1980′s. It happened about the time our … Continue reading
pataphysics of dead people: recycling the vendors
Advertising does really define our world. In the Western culture of entertainment, advertising assumes the role of both structure and content.We can fake our rage against the machine, but are constantly putting our paws in the cookie jar. The focus … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Billboard Liberation Front, Caravaggio, catherine gudis, craig baldwin, French Situationist, Guy Debord, Herman Hesse, mark dery, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Ralph Nader, Ron English, ronald wayne, Steve Jobs, Theodore Roszak
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/b/:LET THEM EAT MARBLE CAKE
We have become accustomed to thinking about 4Chan as the breeding ground for memes as well as shaping the associated cultural reactions to such memes. There are other implications to 4Chan beside the obvious pop culture reading…. Alexis de Toqueville’s … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Alfred Jarry, Amber Case, Ben Huh, Ben Popper, Billboard Liberation Front, Ceci Moss, Claire Bishop, Cole Stryker, Ctle Gage, Dominick Chen, Gabriella Coleman, Glenn Beck, Henry Jenkins, Jon Kelley BBC, Jude Sheerin, Kayne West, Laura Adams Hot Topic, Lev Grossman, Marcel Duchamp, Marcin Ramocki, Marshall McCluhan, Mary Bale, Nicholas Bourriaud, Peter Burger, Ron English, Whitney Phillips
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BAD SANTAS: CULTURE JAMMING CORPORATE XMA$
What realistic future do you see for billboards? “Most people are now walking billboards, what with all the clothing logos on their togs. I suppose the next frontiers will be inner and outer space. Designer DNA encoded directly onto our … Continue reading
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Tagged Adbusters, Alfred Jarry, Billboard Liberation Front, Bombing Science, D.S.Black, Damien Hirst, Guy Debord, Janet Lee, Jessica Hall, Joey Skaggs, Naomi Klein, Ogden Nash, Phil Knight, Phil Knight Nike, Ron English
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