Vans and the places where they were
Adam is a digital marketing professional in Cambridge, MA with an interest in most of the things you find posted here. He blogs at www.discobeta.com, but seems to be spending a lot more time with the minidisco recently.
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I came across the Public Ad Campaign via Adam Broitman. Fantastic stuff. Here's their mission statement:
Public Ad Campaign acts on the assumption that public space and the public's interaction with that space is a vital component of our city's health. By visually altering and physically interacting with the public environment, residents become psychologically invested in their community.
Outdoor advertising is the primary obstacle to open public communications. By commodifying public space, outdoor advertising has monopolized the surfaces that shape our shared space. Private property laws protect the communications made by outdoor advertising while systematically preventing public usage of that space.
In an effort to illuminate these issues, Public Ad Campaign chronicles the activities of artists intent on challenging these relationships, as well as other contemporary issues in outdoor advertising and public space.
Through bold acts of civil disobedience we hope to air our grievances in the court of public opinion and witness our communities regain control of the space they occupy.
Totally unfair. You should get an award for pulling off a tight parallel parking job in the SF Mission.
The structure is O. M. Ungers' "Galerie der Gegenwart"—or it was before projection artists at Urbanscreen got involved. Their vision of "dreaming" architecture gave the textureless, motionless facade a dynamic new look.
