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the art world
Is Poster Boy Still Good in a Gallery?
NYC subway ad vandalartist Poster Boy is all up the fancy galleries now! Well not the "fancy" galleries, but galleries nonetheless. But do ad remixes really translate to gallery walls? Kinda. More »
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Comment by jiminy.peep: looks like the same empty pseudo-political faux-intellectual posturing by every other "street artist turned gallery artist" 3 Responses | Other threads
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ad remixes
A Poster Boy Knockoff?
A new politically themed subway poster remix! The Post thinks this is the work of our friend Poster Boy, but we're not sure. It's a little slicker than his earlier political soliloquies: More »
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Comment by pureblarney: The first was done by a girl. I passed her on the way to the L train while she was... more » | Other threads
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Poster Boy
MoMA Decries Art
MoMA, which allegedly stands for "Museum of Modern Art," has fired a guy for wantonly associating the MoMA name with art, of the modern variety. More »
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Comment by smithhimself: Smithhimself had gone to several MoMA cocktail parties and -- while drinking as usual -- chatted with some of the... 3 Responses | Other threads
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art
Poster Boy Tiptoes Towards the Dark Side
Well now, our vandalartist friend Poster Boy has become embroiled in an edgy art world to-do! He's out doing authorized vandalmixes of MOMA posters. Uh, or is he? Yes he is. Is that bad? More »
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Comment by rudi_freude: But...but Poster Boy isn't an individual! It's a movement ! It was only a matter of time before there were... 4 Responses | Other threads
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crime
Poster Boy Doesn't Want Your Dirty Plea Deal, Pigs
The identity of subway ad vandalartist Poster Boy is now the most important issue facing New York. He was arrested last week—or was he? Either way, the guy is now fighting the power: More »
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Comment by Cindy_McCain: What was it called when people changed ads like that in magazines and stuff, like 10 years ago? Slamming or... 4 Responses | Other threads
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ad remixes
How to Be an Art Vandal
Poster Boy is mighty famous now. But becoming an artistic remixer of public space is easy! In this little clip, Jordan Seiler of Public Ad Campaign—a Poster Boy pal—shows just how easy. More »
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Comment by ValborgMelbo: It's amazing how these vandals think that, say,a $10 contribution to the Sierra Club somehow entitles them to mess up... 10 Responses | Other threads
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ad remixes
'Perfect For Starting a Campfire!'
Ha, this parody of the NYT's ad for its "weekender" deal is funny because it's true. Who doesn't love the Politics & Socks section? Note to Times: even aged hipsters are mocking you. Not good. More »
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Comment by Nic Fit: All of those "aged hipsters" are fairly big names in comedy. 5 Responses | Other threads
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art
Was Poster Boy Really Caught?
The fuzz thinks it arrested Poster Boy when it took Henry Matyjewicz into custody. But Poster Boy is bigger than one dude, maaan. Poster Boy is a MOVEMENT. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Takes One to Know One: Christ, another Movement. How long before some kid sets up a website where you can "Poster Boyize" your photos? 2 Responses | Other threads
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fame
Poster Boy Is a Tough Biatch
Now that NYC's most famous subway ad remixer Poster Boy got himself arrested, he's more famous than ever! We hear the NYT is even planning a story on him. For us it's about the art. More »
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Comment by FreddieBietzsche: Hammy, please put the girls out of their misery and find the police photo of PB. Come on, is he... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Outlaw Ad Vandal Said Caught
Poster Boy, beloved remixer of subway posters, has been going public, chatting with the Guardian, New York and at least one videographer. It finally got him in trouble. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by SiddheshwariCachonda: Does anyone know how this can actually get this guy booked? I mean, can't anyone claim to be Poster Boy?... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Poster Boy's Secret Life
Talented subway ad-remixer Poster Boy came out of the shadows twice this weekend: He outlined his past for the Guardian and showed much of his face in a new YouTube video. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by NewYorkQueer: hey private hangnail, probably is a queer, can't begin to imagine a str8 doing anything this innovative, seeking it out... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Poster Boy Moves To a Bigger Canvas
What has our favorite semi-anonymous ad vandal Poster Boy been up to lately? Just tearing down the commerce-based capitalist infrastructure and replacing it with a vision of public utopia. More »
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Comment by jackvinyl: it's good... I'd like it better if he's played with the Van Wagner logo too: Sans Wagner Ban Danger Can't Haver Man Hanger ... maybe it's... 1 Responses | Other threads
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ad remixes
Ad Agency Life Destroys Soul of Peanuts Characters
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" remixed as life in an ad agency. They make Pigpen work through the weekend! Monsters. Click through for the video: More »
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Comment by F-Bomb-Fanny: Poo. The organic angst and despair intrinsic to the world of Peanuts only proves one thing: empoverished journo-remakes are neither... 10 Responses | Other threads
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american apparel
American Apparel Successfully Swallows Its Ad Spoofer
All subversive things in our culture must eventually be co-opted by the very things that they subvert. It's the American way. The American Apparel ad spoofer—who had a months-long run of fame for creating super-porny ripoffs of AA ad posters (which eventually turned out to be Photoshop fakes by the people at Stereohell)—has now become the subject of an actual American Apparel ad. In Vice magazine, naturally! Click through for photos of Dov Charney's victory over artistic mockery:
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Comment by American Dreamer: I bought some stuff for my kids at American Apparel just last month and my laundry girl reported back to... 50 Responses | Other threads
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Poster Boy
Poster Boy, Live In Action
Anonymous subway-based ad remix artist and minor obsession of ours Poster Boy has been caught on film! All we had before to identify him was this photo(shop). Animal NY's vandal-in-chief Bucky Turco spent a nice evening with PB in a Brooklyn subway station, just cold maxing and relaxing and shooting the breeze while carving up ads with an X-acto knife and attacking trains. We now have a definitive description of Poster Boy: a male wearing a hat, doing art. If you see anyone matching that description, call police immediately. (Not really, snitches!). Watch the full clip below: More »
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Comment by Private Hangnail: I used to have that piercing. Let me describe it as ill advised, if only because I still have the... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Poster Boy
Poster Boy: Trains, Planes, And Britney, Bitch
Poster Boy: an anonymous ad remixer in the New York subways. Art: is it what he does? Culture jamming: a term too annoying to use any more, though everyone knows what it means. Sell out: is he bound to, eventually? Questions: he asks them. Britney: slut, psycho, or star? Maria: is she really poopy? Man: why is he flying on outside of train car? Poetry: why aren't I good at it? Five new Poster Boy pieces: after the jump, ya dig: More » -
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'Whassup' Remix Changes Things
Remember those Budweiser "Whasssssssssupppppppppppp!!!" ads, that made you want to crush and kill everyone in your path? Yes, well someone has put the idea to use for the sake of good. We won't ruin the clip for you. We'll just say that this is two minutes of poignant political genius, and if you don't like it then you might as well just go live in a world in which you drink Budweisers all day with John McCain as Sarah Palin shouts "Whassssuupppp!!" in your ear, forever and ever. You must check it out kids: More »
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Comment by azilaw: Wait. So are hurricanes Bush's faul or McCain's fault. I cant keep the leftist propaganda in order. 12 Responses | Other threads
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Poster Boy
Poster Boy Gets Political
Anonymous subway ad vandal Poster Boy hasn't let his newfound fame go to his head. (Maybe he has? We don't know the guy personally). He's still traipsing around subway platforms with an X-acto knife and a tube of glue, busily remixing posters while slack-jawed commuters stand by unaware, presumably. After the jump are five of his newest works—I have to admit that the "FART" one is the best of all: More »
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Comment by Aatom: it's edgy, illegal, and somewhat thought-provoking. welcome back, New York. 2 Responses | Other threads
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Poster Boy
A Poster Boy Exclusive
After lots of slobbering positive reviews on our part, the anonymous subway ad vandal known as Poster Boy has finally made contact. And he sent us a present: an exclusive Photoshopped work (after the jump). Which is outside his usual methodology, but hey, since this kid is on his way to being a star, it just makes it that much more special. You can all say you knew him way back when. Suck it, New York magazine: More » -
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Poster Boy Transcends The Financial Crisis
Poster Boy is like gentrification: he doesn't stop, you just get used to him. NYC's premier subway ad poster art-vandal continues to implore hipsters to free their minds using little more than an X-acto knife and some glue. And all the cool bloggers still love him. Five of the anonymous kid's latest, greatest works, below: More »
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Comment by JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!: Now I feel silly for enjoying the simple: 2 Responses | Other threads
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american apparel
The American Apparel Ad Spoofer's Final Joke On Us All
Well, our faith in the reliability of photography has been shattered, a decade after it should have been. The porny American Apparel ad spoofer, whose sexy ad remixes we have thoroughly documented, has been revealed as an art project by the graphic design aficionados who run Stereo Hell, as expected. More importantly: the spoof "posters" plastered throughout the city, and on AA stores, weren't posters at all; they were just Photoshop mockups. They existed only in imaginary pixellated form! No wonder none of them ever turned up on Ebay. I suppose this says something about the true nature of art; but I must admit that the achievement seems less impressive now. There is no Santa Claus either, btw. After the jump, two Photoshopped photos of the spoofer's final big reveal. We'll miss you, you fake bastards: More » -
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Denied! Anon AA Ad Artist Slams Faux-Bam Culture Jam
So yesterday we posted what seemed to be a new work by the anonymous American Apparel ad spoofer—this one featuring Obama being menaced by a big dick, with the familiar slogan "The Assassination of Barack Obama" and an American Apparel logo. Then we heard that it might not be a work by the actual spoofer, which was confirmed by the spoofer's own blog, then confirmed again by Copyranter, who thinks the Obama piece is a Photoshop fake. Now the spoofer himself has sent us a statement, of sorts, saying he welcomes copycats as long as it's clear they're different copycats (and he's not a Dov Charney employee, thank you): More »
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Comment by Scout 3.0: Couldn't he think of a more impressive name than "aa ads spoofer". Maybe take a cue from Superman or Zodiac... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Spoof Update
We hear (third-hand) that the actual anonymous American Apparel ad spoofer has denied making the Obama Porn-sassination poster we put up earlier today. If the spoofer would like to issue a first-hand denial, he or she can email us.
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Comment by bytememehard: Come on, Gawker, I would never have my name associated with a childish cartoon like that. You've seen my work.... 11 Responses | Other threads
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ad remixes
American Apparel Spoofer Porn-sassinates Obama
We have to say this for the porntastic anonymous American Apparel ad spoofer: he or she is just so god damn aware of the vagaries of pseudoculture that it is impossible not to admire his or her attention-getting sensibility. Unless, of course, this all turns out to be paid for by Dov Charney, in which case you can expect a very sternly worded rebuke from us. So watch out. Today, the personal (wear) becomes political; it's The Assassination of Barack Obama as imagined not by a publicity-seeking artist Yazmany Arboleda, but by publicity-seeking artist "anonymous spoofer." And of course a big dick is involved, for reasons we can't quite understand: More » -
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American Apparel Ad Spoofer Strikes The Heart Of The Beast
The anonymous, sex-positive American Apparel ad spoofer's latest conquest: the windows and front door of an upcoming Soho American Apparel store. Verily, our wayward artist has decided to strike Dov Charney right where he lives. Is this further evidence that the spoofer might be in cahoots with the company—the manifestation of the CEO's inner desire for ads unfettered by his dreary clothing? It's time to reveal yourself, poster-person. Click through to see the, um, seductive (?) re-imagining of the store's entrance: More »
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Comment by TechnologyVsHorses: Looks like this art work I saw in Zurich in 2005: [www.flickr.com] more » | Other threads
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ad remixes
Art Vs. Commerce
After paying homage to Jeff Koons, the anonymous American Apparel ad spoofer attacks Andy Warhol with paint and boobs. [Stereohell via Copyranter]
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Comment by NickGlass: Well, Jeff Koons spent most of his life nailing Andy Warhol's leftovers (which, admittedly, were some of the scraps from... more » | Other threads
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American Apparel Ad Spoofer Becomes An Art Critic
The anonymous American Apparel ad remixer has consistently shown—along with a love for pornography and a belief in the dildo-ness of AA boss Dov Charney—a marked devotion to actual "art." We're not dealing with just another vandal here; we're dealing with a vandal who may have gone to art school at some point. This valuable education enables not only the clean, porny line drawings on the ads, but now, a new frontier: a reference to pop artist Jeff Koons. And a nude woman! I don't think it's exaggerating the case to call this fake postermaker an educator. The seminal work: More » -
gossip girl
Gossip Girl Gets Poster-ized
Who could possibly top Gossip Girl's mind-blowingly transgressive ad campaign in which the show trumpeted its own negative reviews—which was itself an incredible follow-up to the astounding 'OMFG' ad campaign that shocked the show business universe? The anonymous Poster Boy ad remixer, that's who. Ha ha. Click for a larger pic. More »
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Comment by CaptainFantastic: @EasyEVG: I took Introduction to Christianity to pad the GPA. Easy, right? NO. more » | Other threads
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Paradigm Shifts As American Apparel Spoofer Attacks Brooklyn
Everything is different now: for the first time in recorded history, the mysterious and porny American Apparel ad spoofer has struck in Brooklyn. Manhattan is so over! Is this a good thing or a bad thing to Brooklyn gentrification opponents, philosophically speaking? The new piece is also directly next to an AA store, perhaps marking an escalation in the conflict between spoof in commerce. Or a confluence? So many questions. One thing we are sure of: this spoofer fears neither male nor female private parts, at least in line drawing form. We feel the time has come for Dov Charney to speak out directly on his, uh, admirer. Click through for a larger pic of the latest, uh, artwork: More »
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Comment by LookyLoo: @saltwatertaffy: Ha, me too! I was like, what are the choices here? Wedgie or Melvin? more » | Other threads
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Poster Boy
"Poster Boy": Artist, Vandal, Maker Of Funny Things
The New York subway poster art vandal, despite receiving widespread acclaim from the cognoscenti who determine who's hot these days, continues to work just as hard as when he was not yet being compared to Banksy (who, let's face it, is totally over now that we know who he is, maybe). He's retained his "ironic sloganeering" theme, and is moving strongly into "messing with faces," as well. Here are five of the anonymous subway vandal's latest ad remixes; steal them immediately, as investments: More » -
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Advertising Blow Jobs To San Francisco Tourists
New York might have those pornographic, fake American Apparel ads, but I like this San Francisco advertising remix better, for three reasons: One, the prankster got it onto the side of one of those cable cars all the tourists ride. Two, that "Don't ask, don't tell" starburst is such a nice touch. It looks just like the authentic "It's thrilling!" logo, and must have taken some work. Third, the photo of the "marine" totally matches the color scheme of the headline, which originally read, "Been Down On A Submarine Lately?" This is the kind of creative work you can only get when your city leads the country in both gay liberation and designers per capita. [Joestump on Flickr] -
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Stealing Celebrity Images For Fun And Profit
Street art, culture jamming, anti-corporate activism, celebrity loathing, celebrity worship—it's all mixed up into a vast cultural stew these days, making the individual messages of many artists hard to parse. When in doubt just assume the message is, "I'm trying to get famous." British artist James Cauty has taken a pop art style, combined it with an advertising-remix motif, and sprinkled in a little blatant fame whoring to cap it all off. He's just commandeering billboards with pieces about celebrities saying how much they love him, and you have to admit that really crystallizes pop culture circa 2008. Plenty of people with day jobs in advertising dream about having the balls to do this (illegally). Pictured, Cauty's image and billboard theft starring Kate Moss; below, another one with celebrity chef Nigella Lawson. More »
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Comment by DigitalVersicolor: Good call, James Cauty, on putting Charles Saatchi's wife in your illegal campaign. more » | Other threads
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american apparel
American Apparel Spoofer: Bambi Porn Edition
The anonymous American Apparel ad prankster strikes again. This time with more animals! Also—it must be said—with even more poon-tang than usual. Copyranter says the new installment is a spoof of this bambi-themed ad. If Dov Charney doesn't find this vandal and put him or her on the payroll immediately, he's even crazier than we think. Click through for two uncensored photos of the (explicit, artistic) latest work: More »
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Comment by e.varden: Peeps STILL have difficulty getting their head around the reality that Bambi was a BOY deerling/fawn fer crissakes.... more » | Other threads
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