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Palin "Frightening Prospect" Posters Everywhere but LA. What gives?

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These posters have been spotted across the country in recent weeks, but according to the creator's website, Frightening Prospect, they've yet to show up in Los Angeles (or at least no one's snapped photos yet). What gives? You can download 18" x 24" wheatpaste poster template at the website. Get to work!

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That said, we truly dig the ObamaMan posters that have been showing up for the past month.

TLG and Augor on Pico

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Photos by Timothy Norris

When Timothy Norris isn't shooting pictures of Gnarls Barkley, or airplanes that go into outer space for LA Weekly and other places, he sometimes comes across cool graffiti in L.A.

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(Photos by Timothy Norris)

Batman Billboards Bombed - With Video

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It's a tempting target to add some writing to these Batman billboards isn't it?

Augor and Revok got one that we posted not long ago here.

Here's another one reworked by Killers of Giants crew:

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This one is visible as your cross over the 101 on Western heading south.

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A little help on this one? UPDATE: Thanks to Graffhead for identifying this piece by Thor.

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Photos by Mark Mauer

And thanks again to Graffhead for the link to this video of the Revok/Augor piece being painted (Video by Logan and Keegan)


Augor x Revok x The Dark Knight (video Logan x Keegan) Meatpost.com from Meat Post on Vimeo.

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Dark Knight Gets REVOKed (And AUGORed)

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Photos by Shelley Leopold.

Billboard Liberation: MSK and D-30

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A little billboard liberation going on (on a blank one, I should add - thanks heavens no one upset the marketing plans of Hancock or Bud Light). On Sunset neat Malo and Further.

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All photos by Mark Mauer.

It's A Crime

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Greatest Hits on Earth

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Timothy Norris spotted this nice piece on the Northeast corner of Pico and La Cienega.
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Timothy writes, "Not the best time of day for the shot, but dig the work."

Also, 101 FM has been turned into 101 PM.

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Photo by Timothy Norris

Buying Billboards, Bugging Bloggers

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Wired got someone from Clear Channel on the line to confirm that their annoying electronic billboard was not hacked.

Clear Channel's Tony Alwin is unhappy about the hacking rumors. "The advertisement was bought under the assumption that it was art that was in an art show," he says. "Any claims about hacking into our systems is false. It's a lie, even."


I don't particularly care one way or the other. It looked cool, and for a while the seething low-level hatred people have of companies like Clear Channel came to the surface as tons of people cheered Skull Phone for the "hack."

And as I said before: the idea's out there now. Someone will try it, and someone will eventually succeed at it.

And hey - there's plenty of non-elctro billboards out there ready to be liberated. I"m pretty sure this one I snapped last July was unsanctioned by CBS and Toyota.

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(Original post here)

And while Murakami may have dug the Revok/Auger work on his LACMA billboard...

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We're pretty sure that Paramount and Miramax were none too thrilled with Augor's work above.

Above photo by Shelley Leopold. Toyota photo by Mark Mauer

Skullphone may have bought time?

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Curbed.la is claiming that Skullphone didn't hack Clear Channel billboards, but actually bought space on them, just like strip clubs and Disney movies do.

And while that's kind of sad, it's also kind of funny: The guy got his money's worth in publicity. Also, the idea's now floating out there. Someone is going to to hack into these huge glowing horror shows. If it's going to be you, let us know when you do it, ok?

Skullphone hacks Clear Channel electronic billboards

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UPDATE: Curbed.la is claiming that Skullphone didn't hack Clear channels billboards, but actually bought time on them.

And while that's kind of sad, it's also kind of funny: The guy got his money's worth. Also, the idea is now floating out there. Someone is going to try to hack into these huge glowing horror shows. If it's going to be you, let us know when you do it.
-Mauer

Supertouchblog has amazing images of last week's Skullphone Haxxors hack of a dozen Clear Channel electronic billboards around L.A. Seems the 18-year-old artist figured out a way to insert his brilliant image into the scrolling billboards. Here are a few of the photos swiped from Supertouch, which has the rest.

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