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Step 3Rock Your System
Now you are ready to beautify the neighborhood. Fill a resued food container with cheap housepaint and hit the streets.
Why a reused food container? If you leave it outside while you catch a drink at a local bar, no one will touch it. Your paint will still be there when you come out to walk home and buff more ads.
Ok, so you're walking around with your stick and your little container of paint. You see an out of reach ad you'd like to buff. Dip your brushes, extend your stick and you'll have that nasty ad covered in no-time. Someone looks at you funny, or you see a cop car pull a u-turn? Drop your stick and walk away - that $6 isn't worth the hassle.
This can be used to quickly buff billboards, posters, and other forms of outdoor advertising. Sure, it's not practical to cover large areas, but you can black out product names and images so the ad looks more like those self-censored CIA COINTELPRO documents. If you really want to go vigilante style, learn what advertising in your urban locale is illegal. Outdoor advertising usually requires permits, so most wheat-pasted poster advertising applies. Check your local laws.
Oh, and remember, you don't even need the stick to work at street level, so get out there!
See also:
NY Press Article on Illegal Advertising
Anti-Advertising Agency
VisitSteve.com
Why a reused food container? If you leave it outside while you catch a drink at a local bar, no one will touch it. Your paint will still be there when you come out to walk home and buff more ads.
Ok, so you're walking around with your stick and your little container of paint. You see an out of reach ad you'd like to buff. Dip your brushes, extend your stick and you'll have that nasty ad covered in no-time. Someone looks at you funny, or you see a cop car pull a u-turn? Drop your stick and walk away - that $6 isn't worth the hassle.
This can be used to quickly buff billboards, posters, and other forms of outdoor advertising. Sure, it's not practical to cover large areas, but you can black out product names and images so the ad looks more like those self-censored CIA COINTELPRO documents. If you really want to go vigilante style, learn what advertising in your urban locale is illegal. Outdoor advertising usually requires permits, so most wheat-pasted poster advertising applies. Check your local laws.
Oh, and remember, you don't even need the stick to work at street level, so get out there!
See also:
NY Press Article on Illegal Advertising
Anti-Advertising Agency
VisitSteve.com
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