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If you see some graffiti around town declaring November 11th there will be "World Screaming," don't alert Homeland Security just yet. The Brooklyn Paper points out that the message is really part of a marketing campaign for graf legend Dumar Brown's book, The World Screaming Nov (the "11" in the tags were meant to be quotation marks--see the one in Paris). His last book was called Nov York.
Brown told the paper, “It was just an advertisement. I didn’t have permission, but then again nobody ever asked me if it was OK that they put billboards up in my sight. I’m not a vandal.”
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"I'm not a vandal."
BWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
Tell that to the poor MTA workers who are going to have to go out on that ledge and paint over your vandalism, asshole.
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#2 & #3, Okay. But you've only responded to the first part of his statement. What about "...nobody ever asked me if it was OK that they put billboards up in my sight..."?
And I wonder what the MTA workers who have to spend their days putting up billboards think about the people who created them.
I think there is a problem created by the fact that the "speech" of corporations and advertisers is protected, but anyone who "comments" (and I'm more than aware that not everything written on top of one of those billboards/signs is a comment on it) is a vandal.
Incidentally, I say this graffiti on the side of the el and was kind of intrigued by the fact that there was going to be a world screaming day on November 11th. I'm much less interested in the release of this book.
I *saw* this graffiti...
"I didn’t have permission, but then again nobody ever asked me if it was OK that they put billboards up in my sight. I’m not a vandal."
Stupidest thing I've read today. If you don't have the property owner's permission to put your ad/art/whatever on their property, it's vandalism. Those billboard ads? The advertisers had the property owner's permission. Nobody has to ask YOU whether you want it in your eyesight, that's not what defines whether an act is vandalism.
If a black person wrote that, vandal. (See, e.g., _______. It's blank.) If a white person, artist. (See, e.g., Marc Ecko.)
I saw this driving down the BQE but couldn't make out what it said in time before passing. Good for him, all you whiners are a bunch of nannygoats! Good old guerrilla marketing doing what it was intended. And it's not guerrilla marketing from American Apparel or Burger King!
#4:
If a corporation or advertiser slaps an ad on a building without the owner's permission, that's still vandalism. Get the owner's permission before you put it up? Then it's not vandalism.
In a way, yes, the corporations and advertisers are protected versus a small artist in that the corporations and advertisers have more resources to defend themselves in court if the property owner decides to go after them. But strictly speaking, their actions are still vandalism and they can still face legal consequences.
buzz, in constitutional law the speech of commercial entities receive much less protection that that of dingbats like Dumar Brown. As a private individual he's allowed to say pretty much whatever he wants, however he wants wherever he wants, but he's not allowed to deface property. And whatever the MTA workers who hang billboards think you can bet that they think 100 times worse of him.
it's vandalism. like all graffiti.
As if that black tattered covering was not ugly enough. Now there is that chicken scratch garbage on the side of the structure. I hope he gets fined and has to pay for the cleaning.
There you have it. Graffiti = advertising.
...but then again nobody ever asked me if it was OK that they put fucking graffiti up in my sight...
Hate stupid people...
Now I know for a fact that Jake Dobkin is actually ghostwriting these pieces under Jen Carlson's name. Who else would praise a "graf legend"? Legends in their own minds, maybe.
After I read this I ordered his book NOV on Amazon. It worked.
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