You may have heard about the most recent terror attacks in Boston. This is NOT the work of the Graffiti Research Lab. We just downloaded this link from youtube. It’s Just more mindless corporate vandalism from a guerilla marketer who got busted. Interference Inc, welcome to the world of being misunderstood, scapegoated, demonized and wanted by the law. Still wanna be a graffiti artist?

For more on this most recent terror attack from the axis of evil (corporations, advertisers, marketers) check out this civic-minded citizens post on Flickr

UPDATE: FREE BERDOVSKY!

An arrest has been made in the Boston Terror Advert Mind Shred of 2007. Read about it here. No it’s not a VP at Turner Broadcasting, the president of the ad agency or CEO Sam Travis Ewen of the marketing company. It’s the 27 year-old artist who was hired to stick the ads up. Turns out the corporation is real sorry about all this and had a cartoon say so on the TV. Probably not as sorry as the guy being hauled-off in cuffs.

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additional links:
Editorial on the Anti-Advertising Agency site.
Channel 11 NYC local news 01.31.07

Calling all writers, street artists, prankster, bikers, protesters, citizens and untouchables! The Graffiti Research Lab will be in Rotterdam from February 7th through the 10th. We’re taking control of the Renzo Piano KPN Telecom Building and turning the Kop Van Zuid into the People’s Revolutionary Green Laser Light District. We are turning the 37 x 72 meter screen into a place to display your uncurated animations and graphics. The back-side of the KPN is becoming a giant open wall you can write on with a BFL (big fucking laser). And throughout the week, the G.R.L. will venture outside the green zone on sorties to laser tag and projection bomb the city of Rotterdam on the BORF riot bike. Join us!

Check out our raw proof-of-concept laser tag R&D:

How to get involved:

If you are near Rotterdam, hook up with us on the opening night of the Rotterdamn Art Fair (February 7th) and contribute your hand styles to the KPN tower. Send us an email or cell number to megaohmresistor at hotmail dot com to receive electronic and SMS messages regarding the dates and times of actions in Rotterdam and Amsterdam in early February.

If you can’t make it to the Netherlands in February, send us your own animations and graphics for the LED facade on the KPN Building. The KPN Telecom building features a 70 meter tall low resolution LED facade. Send us your 22 pixel wide by 41 tall monochrome animated gifs or quicktime movies and we will convert them to work on the big screen. Animation will operate at 4 frames per second. No curation (except hate speech we don’t agree with) or any corporate logo. Submit you animations to fi5e at ni9e dot com. We need your animations by the 6th of February. We will document every animation and post video and flicks online.

For more information about the KPN building click on the links below:
http://wdka.hro.nl/~kpn/
http://www.daanemmen.nl/homoludens/index.html
http://rotterdam.siggraph.org/archive/kpn/kpn.html
http://www.ergaster.com/screen/site/pags/toz2.html

Advertising is the mindless vandalism of the Fortune 500. And despite that, we still don’t like it.

Between November 2006 and January 2007, the City of New York has brought down over 59 illegal banners on construction sheds. In that same period, Citibank was forced to remove all illegal sidewalk projections at branches around Manhattan. And now, years into New York City’s war on graffiti writers and protesters, after we’ve watched our friends be detained, arrested, beat, fined, tried, and given real jail sentences, not a single corporate toy from any ad firm has had to do any time.

This could mean only one thing. They’ve called off the law. Open City. Let’s all get to work.

Drink it straight from the hose at the Anti-Advertising Agency
or here on youtube.

This is the first collaboration between the Anti-Advertising Agency and the Graffiti Research Lab.

Bit and modified from Ji Lee’s Abstractor TV. We used black foam core ($10/sheet) cut with a laser cutter – but this project can be done with an x-acto blade, black paper, and duct tape. It can be repeated using any backlit display – bus shelters, display ads or television store windows.

Download 1024 x 768 animated gif below:
NYC’s TRUE GRAFFITI PROBLEM
GRAFFITI
GRAFFITI = ADVERTISING

For for more sneaky flicks click here

Eyebeam R&D Open Lab…Be healed!
Track By Ratatat.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor law nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their self-appointed rounds. Lets all Go Postal.

Click here to view the video and learn how to make your own Post-circuit Board (PCB).

The HSAT is a functioning threat advisory system serving the residents of Nolita, Chinatown, Little Italy and the Bowery. The threat level in NYC has never changed from “HIGH” since the systems inception in 2001.

Click here to view video.
Click here for more flicks on flickr.

For more on the show at 11 spring check out the Wooster Collective. And special thanks to Bennet4Senate, Marc, Sara and Malcolm for helping to bring this level of threat awareness to Lower Manhattan.