Rboom: Light Criticism

Graffiti Research Lab
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/

Eyebeam
http://research.eyebeam.org/

The Anti-Advertising Agency
http://antiadvertisingagency.com/projects/light-criticism/

on NYC's graffiti problem inspired by Jo Lee's Abstractor TV
http://abstractor.tv/

original video by Steve Lambert
http://www.visitsteve.com/

music by Ratatat (thanks, Kenyatta!)
http://www.ratatatmusic.com/
http://www.kenyattacheese.net/

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Tags:

• nyc
• graffiti
• jo
• lee
• abstractortv
• visitsteve
• lambert
• grl
• technology
• culture
• light
• criticism
• anti-advertising
• agency

[lonNasty]

i love how youtube showed an ad before the video started

[daejablu]

Ratatat to me is the greatest group ever

[VoltaireActNow]

@deco9987

Maybe we should start giving a shit about your inner feelings. Come on, you can tell me. honestly, i'm trying to care more and I would love for people to do the same.

there is a lot of creativity in advertisement, but their message is spread because they have the money. Generally an artist won't nor cannot afford to pay someone to create a mural on a building. So, creative advertising goes against consensus on that one. Maybe its jealousy, maybe its injustice to our creative being.

[Zareste]

This is a breath of fresh air. In fact I've been surfing StumbleUpon videos for a half-hour and getting nothing but propaganda and advertisements. It's starting to seem like the only solution to propaganda is to kill the propagator.

[deco9987]

Thanks, i understand how dictionaries work.

How is advertising not a product of creativity? Can't advertising can be a beautiful or significant thing?

Whats preventing you from "expressing your spirit" inside? On a canvas? Or any other medium? Instead of dirtying up the streets with your graffiti for the world [the majority of whom don't give a shit about your inner feelings] to see?

[Pourvivreheureux]

graffiti is a form of art work...the defenition in itself, which you can find in a dictionary....you know a book where you find the meanings of things ...defines graffiti as street art...art is the products of creativity, the creation of beautiful or significant things...while advertising on the other hand is a public promotion of a product or service. dont compare brainwashing tactics with the expression of spirit.

[deco9987]

Advertising isn't graffiti... Advertising has meaning, it's there for a reason... graffiti is for thugs/failed artists/the "misunderstood" underground weirdos

[ahabthewhaler]

why would these people go around in ski masks doing this? why not just wear overalls or something. people might question you in a ski mask, they wouldnt question you if you looked like your meant to be there

[dp535i]

you're a genius for pointing that out! lol