Subversive Product Placement
I love this:
“This past weekend in New York City, TrustoCorp — a notorious and anonymous artist (or artists) ‘dedicated to highlighting the hypocrisy and hilarity of human behavior through sarcasm and satire [by] targeting areas in the public domain typically reserved for messages of trust and authority’ — placed over 100 re-branded food and beverage products in shops, bodegas and Kmarts in the greater Manhattan area.”
(Source: The Jailbreak)
View more pictures and find other examples of subversive social commentary in the original Jailbreak post.
Related Links:
- From Creative DC: Reclaiming Public Space
- From Adbusters: Spoof Ads
Filling in the Cracks
“The city’s infrastructure is crumbling, and there are few funds for repairs, but one artist may have a solution: Legos.
Two weeks ago, German artist Jan Vormann and a team of volunteers began filling in cracks in city buildings with the plastic building blocks.”
Here are some photos from Vormann’s website:
Sadly, most of the Legos have been removed by now :(. Why not leave them up?
The website NewYorkology also reported on the Legos, aka the “Dispatchwork” project, which has also graced the crumbling walls of cities such as Tel Aviv and Berlin; I love the nugget of info they included in this editor’s note:
(Editor’s note: Credit goes to 14-year-old Christopher Langfield who first spotted the Chelsea Legos on Feb. 21 and said it looked like the work of a European artist he’d read about.)
Those kids, always slacking off with their video games and their….knowledge of European street art.
