Book review: Billboard Bandits

Adam Clark’s Billboard Bandits: Outlaw Artists in the Sky, published this year, is 208 pages of photos, entry level information on graffiti culture (i.e. What are throw-ups, pieces, and billboard backs?), profiles and personal anecdotes in the vernacular of true writers (which includes explicit language). The book is divided into two sections by graffiti and street art, with …

Billboard 01

“Billboard 01” 1991 by Gerwald Rockenschaub. Rockenschaub based his work on the modular system used by the poster company gewista, whereby each large-format poster is made up of 8–72 standard format sheets. He had these sheets printed in monochrome in seven industrial norm colours from which he made forty colourful combinations which could be independently …

OX hits the same billboard twice

OX‘s billboard takeovers are site-specific and often draw on the environment around them. OX has hit this particular spot in Paris at least twice, so these are pretty good examples of his thought process when designing a billboard takeover for a particular spot. Photos by OX

“Spatial Distributions of Power: Illegal Billboards as Graffiti in Los Angeles.”

“In this way, via a constant bombardment of a hegemonic truth, corpo-political regimes control the means by which individuals seek to know, decipher, and act on themselves. Acting as if they were freea in within a liberal, democratic system of rule, the good consumer citizen is calculatedly and spatially constructed.” BC Biermann, a PhD Assistant …

A Phil Frost billboard in LA

The legendary Phil Frost has just put up this billboard in LA for the Undefeated Billboard Project. Previously, artists like Os Gêmeos, Kaws, Barry Mcgee and José Parlá have participated in the project. Such a cool project. Photos via Dr. Romanelli

Sam3’s Billboard Slashes

I know I already mentioned Sam3 this week, but these new paintings are the kind of disruptive realism I love. Post pretty much stolen from one of my favorite street art photoblogs, Unurth