Don't worry, your favorite girl who rakes in about $0.005/month from her own AdSense script isn't about to get all hypocritically anti-advertising like last time (although I could probably split hairs about the difference between overwhelming outdoor ads and text ads so hard to notice they (sigh!) never get clicked if you really wanted me to).
I just happen to think that light criticism (brought to you by The Anti-Advertising Agency and Graffiti Research Lab, and brought to me via Stay Free Daily) makes for some mighty fine street art, and I hope I get to see it live and in person some fine night. We'll leave it at that:
These guys are silly. Personally I'm all for TV screens on streets and more creative hacking of them. "Advertising = Graffiti" = boring. Graffiti researchers need to do better if they want to compete with advertisers. What kind of battle is this?
The message leaves something to be desired, I'll give you that. It's nothing we haven't heard before.
But I like the medium (heavyweight cardboard on TV screen?). TV light looks much more interesting abstracted from its context. Maybe this would be more appealing if they'd cut an interesting design into the cardboard instead of rhetoric.
I guess what we really need is our masked Max Headroom friend to hijack the signals.