Fukt Commbank subvertising, Newtown

While I was editing getUP or getOUT yesterday afternoon, Fukt sent me this juicy piece of subvertising he put up in Newtown, right next to the Martin Luther King mural.

The meaning of the very open-ended "Can't" Commonwealth Bank ad currently polluting Sydney bus shelters was given a kick in the ass here.

Oddly enough, Fukt now calls himself Jack Fennell on Facebook. Maybe he's losing it.

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Clive posters in Shanghai

Acid Midget has been quiet during the past few weeks. I've been blog-time poor while travelling around Europe. I'm currently in Barcelona and nursing a hangover.

When I find a free moment here, I post street art on our Facebook page. I try and update this every day, so keep a look out to see what I've found.

Also, thanks to everyone for the emails. You've sent some great photos. And speaking of which, I blogged a Clive wheatpaste not long ago and he liked it enough to send over his own photos.

Clive does these trippy wheatpastes around Shanghai. This one, and the one above it, were stuck to an iPad advertisement outside Jing'an Temple Station.

I'm not sure who Clive is associated with, however, he appears to be linked to the Salted Planet Collective.

If you know more about his work please comment below.

And if these posters make you miss Madonna music videos circa 1991, please get in touch.

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Murdoch phone hacking scandal

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Dr. D posted this satirical ad in London as part of a wave of criticism News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch and his staff are facing over the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

Staff at the 168-year-old tabloid newspaper - which was recently killed off - have been accused of hacking phones of British celebrities, royals and a even dead teen.

Dr. D's ad is a play on words, with references to Hitchcock's film Dial M for Murder and a more recent TV series called Dial M for Murdoch.

The show's plot is summarised thus:

"A telephone operator becomes an amateur detective after overhearing a woman apparently being killed."

And art becomes life.

Also in the ad, a police officer also wears a phone where a badge would normally be. This references British police who were allegedly complicit in the scandal and took bribes from Murdoch employees.

Unless corrupt news makers are reined in, Acid Midget may eventually become a 'street art blog made with a hacked iPhone'.

HOLLYWOOD: Desire Obtain Cherish billboard

 (Via Unurth)

Is this Hollywood Blvd billboard telling women they should either:

A) Stay away from Italians?

B) Drink more Stella Artois?

C) Drink more Stella Artois with body language that suggests they are performing fellatio?

D) Stay away from men all together because they will use you like a two-minute steak?

Is this Hollywood Blvd billboard telling women they should either:

A) Stay away from Latinos?

B) Drink more Stella Artois because that's what beautiful, desirable slutwalkers do?

C) Perform more fellatio because that's the best way to attract men with desirable genes?

D) Mix a cocktail of beauty products, alcohol, heightened promiscuity and passive behaviour because you're one of the 'uglies' and a candidate for suicide if you don't?

Banksy bombs Sunset Boulevard billboard

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Banksy has been busy in Los Angeles ahead of the Oscars.

He was banned from attending because he has a monkey face, so to fight back he's dropping bombs to rack up publicity across the blogosphere.

Would you consider this billboard bomb subvertising, or is Banksy doing exactly what capitalists do - push their brands onto you?

Banksy is a brand too, isn't it?

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Mini Graf Obey, Krafty, Imposters wheatpaste **UPDATED**

(Images: Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst)

**UPDATE: Thanks to a commenter who said this is by Mini Graf. **

Found this little wheatpaste outside a construction site in Darlinghurst.

I'm not sure what's being built there, but the artist might.

This poster depicts a public house which looks like a suburban home. Odd. It also has commercial logos tagged all over.

These are:

"OBEY", well that's a reference to the Shepard Fairey slogan, however, this version uses eBay typography.

"KRAFTY", mmmm love a bit of Krafty on my toast.

"IMPOSTERS" - that's a hit at Australian beer brewer Fosters. This company thinks if it re-badges Stella Artois as a locally made beer, which it has, it will make an easy buck.

Too bad it tastes like a locally made beer re-badged as Stella Artois (Stella is from Belgium).

I've seen the 'couple' standing in the pub's window outside the Hopetoun Hotel:

It's a clue to who the artist is. Please comment below if you know and I'll update this post.

Here's the building behind where the poster was pasted. Will it be a pub/bar as the poster suggests?

Does Alcostralia really need another licensed venue?

More at Mini Graf's site.

Artist: Princess Hijab

This Princess Hijab bomb recently hit an H&M advertisement in what appears to be a subway tunnel.

The vandalised figures in the ad pose in 'slutty embrace'. This has caught the eye of a pedestrian walking past.

Princess Hijab's bombs are more relevant than ever, since the French Parliament banned the Burqa in public spaces.

Via Wooster.

pabst blue ribbon beer mural

(Downtown Phoenix)

Pabst Brewing Company apparently got some dude to paint a series of murals celebrating their beer. According to Liam, who wrote to Wooster Collective, someone sprayed a checklist on this "pretty bad" mural to highlight its strengths and weaknesses.

It's got beer and boobs. But art? I guess advertising doesn't need more than beer and boobs to get the message across.

Via Wooster.