Cool video of "Moose" doing a big reverse graffiti mural in San Francisco's Broadway tunnel.
Green Graffiti or marketing SXSW for under $1,000
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#12Great idea!
In the UK however the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 means advertising without permission could land you n hot water.
Shame though, I'd love this in my city centre!
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#13While this is cool, it is neither new or good.
The result looks great, no paint used! Must be ok?
To me it would still seem there was a cost of cleanup, therefore damage has been done. For the council to remove the graffiti they would have to clean the surronding pavement.
edit: I knew this would be downvoted, but my personal opinion still stands. This is not free to cleanup... Chalk is easier[to cleanup], chalk disapears with rain.
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#14Ok, this one is just great. We had the Microsoft 'stickers on the street' fiasco, we had the 'chalk goes into the bay' fiasco, this however, hard to argue with. And well cleanup is kind of part of the city's job in the first place. Genius. Now we need to do this for dusty windshields. Put the stencil across the back window of a dirty car, wipe with damp cloth, done.
The other cool thing is if "everyone did it" then you'd have some damned clean sidewalks. The potential for abuse or taking this too far is very limited.
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#15Great implementation! This is a superb method of guerilla marketing. I actually mentioned a few of mine in a blog post a while back: http://blog.zaheer.me/2012/05/guerilla-marketing.html
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#16Ok, this one is just great. We had the Microsoft 'stickers on the street' fiasco, we had the 'chalk goes into the bay' fiasco, this however, hard to argue with. And well cleanup is kind of part of the city's job in the first place. Genius. Now we need to do this for dusty windshields. Put the stencil across the back window of a dirty car, wipe with damp cloth, done.
Devil's advocate: Austin was under stage 2 water restrictions at the time of SXSW (and still is). It is illegal, and unethical, to use water for outdoor cleaning like this during a drought in a thirsty city like Austin (i.e. no power washing sidewalks, etc.). That's probably why the sidewalks were so dirty, providing a nice dirty canvas for their graffiti.
Certainly, this is better than stickers and chalk, but it's still not very environmentally friendly on a large scale, in a city like Austin, where everyone is watching their gardens and grass get crispy due to lack of water. Water matters in Texas.
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#17Hard to achieve without local help: where does one get a powewasher, water, etc. But the effect is cool, and cleaning public streets must be legal.
You might think cleaning of streets must be legal...but, in a Texas town experiencing a long hard drought, it probably isn't. Austin was under stage 2 water restrictions at that time, which prohibits washing of sidewalks and streets.
Re: Green Graffiti or marketing SXSW for under $1,000
#18Hard to achieve without local help: where does one get a powewasher, water, etc. But the effect is cool, and cleaning public streets must be legal.
You might think cleaning of streets must be legal...but, in a Texas town experiencing a long hard drought, it probably isn't. Austin was under stage 2 water restrictions at that time, which prohibits washing of sidewalks and streets.
It's not clear that they didn't bring their own water from somewhere else, however.
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#19While this is cool, it is neither new or good. The result looks great, no paint used! Must be ok? To me it would still seem there was a cost of cleanup, therefore damage has been done. For the council to remove the graffiti they would have to clean the surronding pavement. edit: I knew this would be downvoted, but my personal opinion still stands. This is not free to cleanup... Chalk is easier[to cleanup], chalk disa…
Encouraging public services to clean up the streets isn't damage in my book.
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#20Ok, this one is just great. We had the Microsoft 'stickers on the street' fiasco, we had the 'chalk goes into the bay' fiasco, this however, hard to argue with. And well cleanup is kind of part of the city's job in the first place. Genius. Now we need to do this for dusty windshields. Put the stencil across the back window of a dirty car, wipe with damp cloth, done.
The other cool thing is if "everyone did it" then you'd have some damned clean sidewalks. The potential for abuse or taking this too far is very limited.
Or you'd have sidewalks totally littered with advertisements.