More subverting white spaces …
Activists Niko and Andrea place stickers of the “broken link” icon that appears on a web page when the image is missing. We think there’s something enormously sad about it…
A nice follow on from Mr beautiful blank who we wrote about a while back.
Via Wooster Collective.
More culture jamming or whatever you want to call it…
ArtNotAds do what they say on the tin — replace outdoor advertising with art. They’ve also utilised Pledgebank to get a campaign going to get enough pledges of £10 to start the campaign by placing a piece or art/poem/etc on one of the Underground station advertising slots.
What the big outdoor media placement companies think of their antics, we shall soon find out…
Via Protein Feed.
Docteur Gecko modifies poster advertising in ways that only become apparent at night.
Three years ago, Docteur Gecko found a new way for ‘hacking’ advertising that you find in bus shelters and his modifications can only be seen during the night when the signs become illuminated. Dark.
Via Wooster with thanks to King Adz for the tip.
Visually arresting images are labelled with a 0900 number, meaning that people have to pay via their phone bill to get full access to the ad
The images are designed by renowned photographers and illustrators and printed on posters, postcards and in publications. The audio that comes with each ad offers a short narrative story and/or sound composition that compliments the image.
According to the blurb …
We want to show that you can do more with mobile phones. Everybody has got one so why not use them for advertising. By addressing people to call in an indirect and intriging way, you have a longer print/customer contact than usual. In the SoundAds campaign we were able to push this contact up to 1.15 minutes.
The campaign ran in various Dutch media during March 2005.
UK culture minister says product placement “contaminates” TV programmes.
From supermodel to media brand.
And how to make a business from it
Surprise! Using IM improves kids’ linguistic skills.
Microblogging officially tips over into the mainstream
No, really.
Inventor of LSD dies aged 102.
The latest contender for ‘coolest imaging/photography tool’ turns snapshots into 3D scenes. And it works!
Women in Johannesburg have been staging a miniskirted protest
What did the twentysomething guy say to the other twentysomething guy?
More Flickr zeitgeist
Stop the clock!! We saw another ad on the internet!
A choice quote from The Economist
Toy giants crack down on Scrabulous, one of Facebook’s most popular applications
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Video hackers take down Getty’s video ‘art’ site.
Buy a Banksy on your storecard!
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Free association brand perception
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