Subway Ad Mashups: Darth Vader Gets Murakami-ized

Subway ads are always undergoing transformation, but And I Am Not Lying recently spotted a more advanced form of subway ad art. He reports:

Those great big billboard ads you see on the subway are nothing but giant peel-and-stick Coloforms, really. I love the accidental collages you see when people randomly pick and peel those thing like they’re great big scabs, and I just knew it was a matter of time before someone started making art out of them.

That's Darth Vader with the Murakami eyes, and Princess Leia getting the Iron Man treatment. These ads were all spotted at the Lorimer L stop, has anyone seen something similar?

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on April 21, 2008 3:46 PM

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eee

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbuyme/

these are from a few months ago, they appeared in the 86th street station.

bellsandasiren

Saw the same thing (plus the addition of an eye, turning one man cross-eyed in such a convincing way that I studied it for a few moments before realizing one eye was pasted on) at the 3rd Avenue L stop, on a boxing poster.

I think it's pretty great. Better than racist slurs scrawled in Sharpie.

BellG

I've been grabbing parts of subway posters and sticking them to other posters on my drunken way home for years - granted, these are better than anything I've done...

smitty

Yeah, newb!

jaycjay

Is "And I Am Not Lying" kidding? Been seeing that for years. I have pics of a few of them I could track down but don't bother with them much because it's so common and most aren't really interesting or well done.