This LinkNYC structure on 10th Avenue displayed the same advertisement for a (now canceled) HBO Max show for nearly a year. The ads are supposed to rotate every 15 seconds and also include helpful community event notices, but something broke and it got stuck on an ad for season two of “Made For Love.” After walking by it for several months, I decided to fix the display myself. Swipe for before and after.
Thanks to @codylindquist for her help in the execution and for serving as my lookout.
I was thrilled to get to work with @artinadplaces last week. They are an awesome organization that, without authorization, replaces phone booth ads with art. I came up with the idea for this one, and street artist @abelincolnjr did the design. Photos by @lunapark . Be sure to zoom in to read the fine print! My artist’s statement is below:
“Outdoor advertising is a blight on our city streets. The decaying phone booth has long been the most egregious example of this visual pollution. These almost always out-of-order structures offer no benefit to our streets and exist only to display advertising. For Art in Ad Places, I chose to replace a Powerball advertisement both because the lottery is a regressive tax on the poor, and because I thought it would be fun to mess with the digital display. As the Powerball jackpot grows over time, the number will get closer and closer to displaying the actual odds of winning: 1 in 292 million. I'm happy to see that the pay phones are finally starting to come down in the city, though I'm not sure the LinkNYC replacements, with their even brighter ads and their sketchy surveillance technology, will be much better.”
This year's Mp3 Experiment will take place on Sunday, June 21 at 1 PM. Free and open to all. Come be part of it! Partiful RSVP link in bio.
The Mp3 Experiment is a participatory audio adventure where attendees use a smartphone app to listen to synchronized secret instructions in a public space via headphones. It’s part flash mob, part silent disco, part immersive theatre, and 100% fun.
A crowd of strangers copies one kid. Part of our annual Mp3 Experiment event, with a mob of people following secret instructions via headphones. Be a part of the next one! Music by Tyler Walker. Script by @charlietodd . Video edit by @keithyqhaskel . Location: @hudsonriverpark
I thought the traffic barriers in my neighborhood looked like faces, so I thought it would be funny to add some smiles. Die cut stickers on Yodock water barrier.
There are a few new buildings in our neighborhood that have a row of pipes protruding out at sidewalk level. I thought it would be funny to add some stickers to make them look like soda fountain dispensers. I ordered some stickers off eBay and installed them on two buildings. They stayed up for several weeks. Thanks to Charles for his help!
When pay phones were removed from our neighborhood, the ugly metal bollards that protected them were often left behind. This Christmas I decided to decorate one of them. Swipe to see the original condition and swipe again to see my co-conspirator.
