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Video: Make The Ads In Times Square Disappear

Video: Make The Ads In Times Square Disappear

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. more ›

NYC Street Advertising Takeover (Briefly) Reclaims Public Space

       

You may have noticed teams of people in orange vests whitewashing advertising billboards in Manhattan and Brooklyn today. They weren't employees of NPA, the company that maintains the billboards. In fact, they were part of a subversive network convened by the Public Art Campaign to take back hundreds of advertising locations that NPA has placed around the city. more ›

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