Minimalist Culture Jamming In Carroll Gardens

Calling this “graffiti” is a stretch, but it certainly qualifies as some sort of low level public hack, a culture jam if you will. Poster Boy needs to head over to the Carroll Street stop and encourage some more enthusiasm, this comes off as kind of low energy. |TheCosmas|

Not Even ‘New York’ Can Water Down Poster Boy

After successfully taking on the world, Poster Boy is back with some Hip Hop inspired work and a profile in New York magazine. The anonymous subway ad remixing artist admits to being “arrested for a couple of little things” and sums up his illegal handiwork as “political,” “anti-media,” and “anti–established art world.” Apparently, he’s not looking to be a Banksy (yet) and unlike the infamous stenciler, Poster Boy doesn’t outsource his work or Photoshop stuff like those fake American Apparel ads. Instead, he often works on the mini-billboards onsite. In one of his latest modifications, the vandal channelled Mos Def, paying homage to the MC’s “New World Water” track (and our fascination with bottled water?) with this fitting alteration.
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Poster Boy Takes On the World

The underground, subway ad remixing artist known as Poster Boy has been on a bit of a rampage lately after taking a brief hiatus. In a new series of alterations, the culture jamming artisan takes shots at the media, fast food, bad shows on Fox and even gentrification—in one instance giving a movie poster for Nicholas Cage’s latest box office bomb Bangkok Dangerous a much more fitting facelift considering a certain Brooklyn neighborhood’s increasing popularity. Collaborator Aakash Nihalani rejoins Poster Boy, attacking the insides of subway cars too. Click below for the creative cluster of constructive vandalism.

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Liberal Culture Jammer Rescues MLK From Conservative Idealogues

The above billboard was paid for by the National Black Republican Association—they stirred up some controversy back in 2006 when they first launched this ad campaign. Well they decided to recycle the concept and bought 50 new billboards to “welcome Obama to Denver.” Unfortunately for the conservative group, with the DNC in full swing this just wasn’t going to fly with all those crazy artists in town. A resourceful property hacking artist named CRO decided to change a few letters and induct Martin Luther King into a more appropriate political party.

Artist Challenges Nike In Olympic Takedown

When he’s not busy building Chino-Obama lightboxes and promoting the Democratic candidate for president, San Francisco based artist, Eddie, is taking shots at Nike via Olympic imagery. He recently created this Molotov cocktail homage to the sneaker brand to highlight their commitment to exploiting cheap labor. It’s the tagline that the street postering artist specifically takes issue with: “If you’re gonna take the ‘Just Do It’ phrase seriously, than it should also be applied to standing up for human rights, against totalitarianism, things we consider revolutionary. That is self-empowerment. I could go on for hours about the dichotomy of it all, but I think most viewers get the point.” Agreed, but do they care?

Poster Boy’s New Work Implicates CIA In 9/11 Cover Up

Wow! Not only is Poster Boy increasingly showing off his artistic skills and collaborating with others, but he’s also getting more conspiratorial. This reenactment of the 9/11 attacks via an AT&T ad should definitely flare a few tempers. Playing off the original copy, “New York, we’ve got you covered up,” the letters C-I-A were juxtaposed next to the logo and he added a subtle jab at the media, just look at the phone number.
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Aakash Nihalani Gets On Board With Poster Boy

Just this week we noted how Poster Boy was stepping up his game and true to form, he’s now even collaborating with other artists. Plus he’s not only hitting the subway advertisements, but now also posting stuff up inside the actual subways too. His latest collection of work was done in partnership with Aakash Nihalani, an artist we spotted outside NYU’s Barney Building back in May that uses neon colored tape to create 3D-ish shapes. Click below for a sampling of the new underground images.

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