Entries Tagged as 'street art'

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Charlie Sheen Is Not Crazy

Image: Culture Wins Charlie Sheen is not crazy. Or, at least, he’s not crazy the way you think he is. Charlie Sheen may finally be admitting that he’s lost his mind — exclusively to Life&Style, of all places, if we are to believe it — but that’s something that would have already been a long, [...]

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Monday, November 29th, 2010

today’s awesome ad (mashup) award goes to

Ad #2 (but watch them in order). . . UPDATE: On December 1st, I received an email from a reader, Dave Clooney, pointing to an NBC Sports article which uncovers the truth about the Jordan ad: Sorry, it’s a spoof. Someone has taken an old Jordan Nike commercial, “Maybe You Should Rise,” and mashed it [...]

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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

lame ad. great mashup.

This is tripping me out. I was just going to write a quick post about how terrifically lame I think the outdoor ads for The Day The Earth Stood Still are. It’s basically just a stock-photo image of the Earth’s curvature, against a black outer-space backdrop, with big, block-y, white letters that read: “THEY’RE HERE. [...]

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Saturday, October 18th, 2008

inadvertent PSA

This is currently the billboard on the corner of La Brea and 3rd. The bottom part is from an ad for Death Race which came out this Summer. The top, I’m guessing, is from some alcohol ad, no doubt. The result is so awesome, I’m having a hard time believing this is could just happen [...]

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