Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump threaten to sue Lincoln Project
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24 Oct 2020
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have threatened to sue the Lincoln Project, if the anti-Trump Republicans do not remove two huge billboards from Times Square in New York City, in which they accuse the senior White House advisers of showing “indifference” to Americans suffering and dying under Covid-19. The Lincoln Project is staffed by Republican operatives who are supporting Joe Biden. With its billboards in Times Square, a stone’s throw from Trump Tower, it seems the Lincoln Project may have succeeded in distracting the president’s daughter and son-in-law. Ivanka Trump'’s gesture on the billboard appears to be taken from a controversial picture, tweeted in July, in which she promoted Goya black beans.
Oprah Winfrey Commissions 26 Billboards Demanding Arrests In Breonna Taylor's Killing
O, The Oprah Magazine has commissioned 26 billboards calling for the arrest of the police officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor to be placed across Louisville, Ky. The billboard artwork uses the cover image of the September issue of O Magazine, which marks the first time in the publication's 20-year run that Oprah Winfrey has not been on the cover. Taylor was killed by Louisville Metro Police on March 13 when at around 1 a.m., officers executing a "no-knock" warrant stormed her apartment where she and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were sleeping. Walker, a licensed gun owner, believed the officers were intruders and fired at them, striking one officer in the leg. Police shot back, hitting Taylor eight times, killing her.
Billboard in San Francisco in Glen Park
In this now prolonged COVID environment, Debt is not being forgiven and interest on money is still ticking exponentially. The legal clauses of foreclosure, seizure, and eviction are real, and are used proactively as a God given Lender right. The Rule of Law favors Debt, even in the times of Jesus.
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Feb 2019
After a right-wing lobby group unveiled a
billboard in New York City's Time Square on Wednesday blaming Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez alone for the decision by retail and technology giant Amazon to
"take its ball and go home" by pulling the plug on its planned HQ2
project in nearby Long Island City, it was pretty clear what was going to
happen next. Ocasio-Cortez didn't demure. She shot back: “Few things
effectively communicate the power we’ve built in fighting dark money &
anti-worker policies like billionaire-funded groups blowing tons of cash on
wack billboards (this one is funded by the Mercers). (PS fact that it’s in Times
Sq tells you this isn’t for/by NYers.)”
The real-life Three Billboards stunts
01
March 2018
An American street artist has become the latest
party to co-opt the signage featured in Oscar-nominated drama Three Billboards
Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The artist - known as Sabo - covered three Los
Angeles billboards with red tarpaulins accusing the entertainment industry of
covering up child abuse. One billboard read: "And the Oscar for biggest
p[a]edophile goes to...", while another claimed: "We all knew."
The stunt is the latest in a number of protests inspired by the billboards featured
in Martin McDonagh's award-winning film. In Miami, meanwhile, mobile billboards
were deployed to urge Florida senator Marco Rubio to sanction gun reform in the
wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Anti-Trump billboard in Arizona prompts death threats against artist
20
Mar 2017
Karen Fiorito was commissioned by a company for
the local arts in Phoenix to create the billboard. The Santa Monica-based
artist earned
a master’s degree in arts from Arizona State University. Since the Trump
billboard went up Friday, the 25-year-old artist said she has received both
positive and negative feedback, including a few death threats. The dollar
swastikas, she said, represent “corporate power and greed and how our society
has become all about money and corporatism.”
'Incredibly Creepy' Billboards to Track Behavior of Passers-By
29
Feb 2016
Billboards across the country will soon begin
to spy on the behavior of passers-by and sell that data to advertisers. Clear
Channel Outdoor Americas, which owns tens of thousands of billboards
nationwide, is on Monday announcing plans to use people's cell phones to allow
its billboards to track the behavior of everyone who walks or drives past the
ads. The marketing behemoth is partnering with AT&T and other companies
that track human behavior to collect data on viewers' activity, which
advertisers could then use to create hyper-targeted ads—similar to how websites
track visitors through their browsers and sell that data to online marketers. Facial-recognition
technology is also increasingly used by advertisers to track behavior in public
spaces. In Germany, the Astra beer brand recently created an automated
billboard that noted when women walked past. The billboard approximated the
women’s age, then played one of several prerecorded ads to match.
Giant ads for Verizon,
Super Bowl are illegal, S.F. says
27
Jan 2016
Two large banners advertising Super Bowl 50 and
Verizon Wireless recently installed on the Four Embarcadero building in San
Francisco will shrink substantially following the threat of a lawsuit from the
city attorney's office, officials said today. The banners, which cover most of
the building on two sides, can be seen towering over the Super Bowl City fan
village area now taking shape at Justin Herman Plaza. In a letter dated Jan.
25, City Attorney Dennis Herrera said his office has received complaints about
the signs, which violate a city law passed by voters in 2002 that prohibits any
new general advertising signs in San Francisco. The letter said the signs need
to be removed by 5 p.m. on Thursday or the city would file a lawsuit and seek a
temporary restraining order and fines.
Skyscraper Billboard SF
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30 Nov 2015
Brazilians who post racist abuse online may see
their words blown up and pasted onto billboards near their houses. The campaign
is called "Virtual racism, real consequences" and it's backed by
Criola, a civil rights organization run by Afro-Brazilian women. The group
collects comments from Facebook or Twitter and uses geolocation tools to find
out where the people who have posted them live. They then buy billboard space
nearby and post the comments in huge letters, although names and photos are
pixelated.
Billboard art show
confronts Missouri drivers head-on
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May 2015
SOMEWHERE ON INTERSTATE 70, Missouri — Those
who spend a lot of time on I-70 can confirm that it’s easy to let your mind
drift while driving this 250-mile stretch of Missouri. Missouri has five times
the national average number of billboards: about 15,000 billboards. Cars, food,
porn, Jesus — everything is advertised on the giant structures. Thus the “I-70
Sign Show” was born. Funded by the University of Missouri, the show displays
critical art pieces on a billboards. The pieces are meant to challenge and
critique the political, social and commercial noise that confronts drivers. The
“I-70 Sign Show” piece that got the most feedback, New York artist Mel
Bochner’s piece, simply reads, “Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah.”
Obscene image shown on
hacked US billboard
21
May 2015
Hackers have managed to make a huge video
billboard in Atlanta display an obscene image favored by internet pranksters.
It prompted calls to police, and soon after, the billboard's owner cut off its
power supply. The hack came after a security researcher warned the company,
which runs thousands of the video billboards, that they were vulnerable to
attack. The FBI and Homeland Security are now investigating the hack. The
billboard is owned by US electric-sign giant Yesco, which runs thousands of
similar billboards across America. Other signs in other states are also
believed to have had their images changed at the same time. A group calling
itself the Assange Shuffle Collective claimed responsibility for the attack, in
a discussion on social news site Reddit.
Google rents world's
biggest digital billboard in Times Square
19
Nov 2014
Google has become the first company to rent to
the world's largest and most expensive digital billboard in Times Square, New
York. The billboard is eight stories high and is estimated to cost $2.5m
(£1.6m) to hire for four weeks. The screen, which is the size of a football
field, is mounted on the side of the Marriot Marquis hotel. Around 300,000
pedestrians are estimated to pass by the billboard every day.
Dangling dummies shock Las Vegas
commuters
08 Mar 2012
Mannequins hanging from nooses on two Las Vegas billboards
Wednesday were part of an apparent publicity stunt that led to dozens of calls
from drivers on their morning commute, the Nevada Highway Patrol said. The
dummies were dressed in business suits and hung from signs reading "Dying
for work" and "Hope you're happy Wall St." It wasn't immediately
clear who was behind the stunt. Both highways are some of the most
highly traveled roadways during commuter hours.
17 Jul 2012
The Brandalism project saw 25 artists from 8 countries
coming together for the biggest subvertising campaign in UK history. Over five days a team of guerilla installers
travelled to Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol and London and put up
artworks that seeks to confront the ad industry and take back our visual
landscapes.
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2010 AZ
Billboard
On the way to the Grand Canyon for a family
vacation in summer of 2010, we passed through Kingman, Arizona on the old Route
66. Pictured is a billboard promoting the governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer,
“doing the job the feds won’t do” with the ‘o’ in ‘won’t’ depicting the Obama
symbol. Using a popular WWII poster, a much younger Jan Brewer is pictured as
Rosie the Riveter. “Doing the job the feds won’t do” is in reference to
Arizona’s controversial immigration policy regarding the protection of its
borders. Whether one agrees with Arizona’s immigration policy or not, Governor
Jan Brewer's billboard demonstrates that billboards still play a key role in
the promotion of a public opinion.
