The Public Ad Campaign and The Heavy Projects have started testing out a neat little app that will turn all of those billboards in Times Square into art. (Previously they brought a non-digital version to the streets.) All you need to do is walk around with your iProduct in front of your face and you'll practically be transported to your very own Vanilla Sky moment. No tourists! No force-fed reality! Everything in its right place! It's just you and a new non-commercial reality now, until someone snags that iPad from your hands.
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Video: Make The Ads In Times Square Disappear
Billboard Over BQE Reminds Us: Only 17 Days Until The Apocalypse!
In the pantheon of controversial billboards, there seem to be a few which are very good at rattling people into hysterics, from ones which are adamantly anti-abortion, to the pro-atheist signs, to the Calvin Klein orgies. And then there are the Apocalyptic billboards, which have been springing up across the country all year in anticipation of Judgment Day. And now, one of these specters of the End Times is hovering over the BQE.
Video: Charlie Sheen's Tailspin Results In ACLU Billboard In Times Square
Watch your back, haters: The ACLU aims to counteract your abhorrent trash-talking with a new advertisement in Times Square. The video billboard (watch below) starts with a photograph of a woman in hijab standing before graffiti reading "Muslims Go Home." This is followed by a photo of "young Americans" holding signs reading "Support Freedom of Religion" and "Love thy Neighbor." (We're pretty sure this photo is from the "Ground Zero" mosque counter-protests over the summer.) The ad's message is "Fight Hate Speech With More Speech." Ironically, it's silent. But maybe you are supposed to provide the soundtrack with some love speech?
Times Square Will Now Celebrate Midnight Every Night
The Times Square Advertising Coalition isn't satisfied with just one midnight blowout each year, they want to make it a daily event. According to the NY Times, midnight will be special all 365 days of the year starting in 2011, when the coalition introduces a nightly “Times Square Midnight Moment."
Billboards Only Briefly Reclaimed by Artists
Over the weekend the Public Ad Campaign organized a massive takeover of some billboard space around Manhattan, where only one whitewashing team was arrested. While the new non-commercial public canvases looked vibrant throughout the day, by the next they were reclaimed by The Man. Luckily it was all well documented. You can check out further images at AnimalNY, Wooster Collective, cronicasbarbaras and Flickr.
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