Here are some merry gents from the Czech Republic who observed a gigantic, mechanically rotating, three-sided billboard and saw a prime opportunity for an unauthorized DIY carousel. Watch ‘em climb, hoist themselves down with some rope and spin. Read more »
Since David Byrne shoved a moaning planet under the High Line, we’ve been waiting for another festive spruce-up and you can’t really get more festive than a giant $100,000 dollar bill, thanks to the never-boring art stalwart John Baldessari. Excellent. Also, nauseating. Read more »
That exploitative anti-abortion billboard in SoHo has been taken down by Lamar Outdoor advertising company after public outrage. The child model’s mom was “devastated” and surprised by the billboard because she “would never endorse something like that” and wants an apology. However, the anti-reproductive rights group Life Always still owns the stock photo of six-year-old Anissa Fraser and is using it on their site, far out of reach of vigilante vandals.
Over the summer, Calvin Klein erected an orgy-themed billboard on Houston Street that drew some extra attention thanks to the Daily News reporting on the faux-controversy. Months later, the jeans and underwear company has put up a new ad imbued with an extra dose of sex to ensure the same result. The newspaper hit Houston Street in search of quotes and found even milder outrage over the Eva Mendes lingerie ad: a Queens resident calling it “borderline pornography.” Read more »
Weeks after the iconic DKNY ad at Broadway and Houston Street was covered in a dung-like shade of brown, the corner’s transformation is complete. In a matter of hours today, painters finished off the wall with the logo for the Ohio-based surf clothing company Hollister, ready for their store opening in July.
Photos by Bowery Boogie and Racked
Calvin Klein has gone and switched up their Houston Street billboard, replacing the image of topless teens making out with a bikini-clad model. While it’s doubtful the small controversy surrounding the old billboard had anything to do with the change, at least Virginia-based conservative columnist Erika Lassen can take comfort in the fact that the freedom-inhibiting ad will not be putting mind control over anyone like it did to her. |Ramble on Rose|
Here’s a newly installed billboard in Times Square that features the Kaws sperm art wrapped around Kanye West that, as we’ve previously noted, used to exclusively entangle supermodels. The rapper-singer commissioned the artist to create the cover art for his latest album: “808s and Heartbreak.”
Photo: Kaws
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