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As we mentioned yesterday, teams of whitewashers clashed with a postering company during the second New York Street Advertising Takeover. The takeover, convened by the Public Ad Campaign, aimed to to take back hundreds of advertising locations that "wild posting" company NPA has placed around the city.
Five people were arrested. One couple was painting flowers on a whitewashed Mulberry Street billboard, the Post reports, which had a quote from the Public Ad Campaign's Jordan Seiler, "New York is a beautiful, wonderful city. When you fill it with commercial messages, you turn it into a commercial space rather than a public space...The city has lost several millions of dollars by not combating unlawfully posted commercial billboards. he enforcement is arbitrary."
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Yeah, these guys are so courageous. I guess that's why "Gaia" wore a mask, obviously because he believes what he's doing is completely right.
Also, the city has lost hundreds of thousands dollars by not combating unlawfully posted vandalism. The vandals should be fined big bucks.
Gaia wears a mask because he/she is an anonymous street artist.. has nothing to do with the legality of this event.
As per the content the artists' put up, please show an example of something obscene that was created on Sunday. I found most of the work to be beautiful, insightful, political, and fun. Wish I could say the same for the sloppily pasted advertisements that covered them up.
Do you know of any legitimate artists who prefer to remain anonymous? Face it, these are nothing but selfish narcissists who think they and they alone should tell us what we should see and what we shouldn't.
Where did you get this "obscenity" charge from? Stop sniffing spray paint fumes.
I think the city has better things to do then worrying about "vandals" who paint over billboards. Grow up
Ah, Gothamist, I love thee, but thou art so hypocritical.
You speak of liberation when billboards are painted over, but decry the destruction of "art" when someone's territorial pissing in spray-paint is covered.
What I find annoying about Gothamist's coverage of this is that, honestly, I don't consider this to be more than a bunch of bored 20 somethings looking for something to do and the cloaking it under the cause of "taking back public space". Really? graffiti- advertising. both are annoying, but the former is illegal, crude in some cases (certainly more than ads), and usually a sign of disorder in the neighborhood. if anything, I would have respected these people more if they had taken the whole panel down and left a pristine wall again.
Exactly. This is nothing more than the usual vanity of vandals who desperately want their stuff to be seen. The whole "protest" angle is a transparent attempt to legitimize and justify posting their own work. Nobody with a brain falls for that.
I think this is awesome -- who doesn't need a reminder to hug life in this city?
Le Purrr!