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Poster Boy – Gone Fishin

Charlie Todd — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:18:36 +0000

On February 21, 2009, an advertising firm handed Poster Boy a MoMA jacket and gave him free range of the MoMA branded Atlantic-Pacific subway station in New York. Turns out the firm wasn’t supposed to do that, and MoMA fired them. Whoops.

Check out Posterboy’s brand new book.

Via Keith Haskel

PosterBoy Update

Charlie Todd — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:47:43 +0000

Friends We Love posted an interview of New York’s most prolific subway street artist, PosterBoy:

Here’s a video of PosterBoy in action:

Poster Boy In Action from ANIMALmagazine on Vimeo.

And finally a video of PosterBoy taking down an entire billboard that he declares in the video description to be “a sign of what’s to come”:

(video shot by the Public Ad Campaign)

Madrid Street Advertising Takeover

PosterBoy in NY Mag

Charlie Todd — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:26:00 +0000

We’ve mentioned Poster Boy a couple of times before here at Urban Prankster. Brian Raftery recently did a great profile on him for New York Magazine.

Slice and Dice
One man’s vandalism is another’s political art. Just ask Poster Boy, the Matisse of subway-ad mash-ups.

Previously:
Step Clones
Subway Poster Mix-Em-Up Art

Step Clones

Charlie Todd — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:35:26 +0000

We’ve covered Poster Boy’s subway advertisement hacks before. He’s posted a bunch of new stuff on his flickr stream, the above being our favorite.