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>> No. 4961 Anonymous
17th July 2014
Thursday 6:38 pm
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>An elusive street artist known only as Listen04 has amended a Hedon Road billboard with an obscene word – but is it art?

>The East Riding-based artist, who has been compared to famed guerrilla mural painter Banksy, daubed over a billboard advertising the new Toyota Aygo, subverting its advertising slogan Go Fun Yourself with something slightly less wholesome.

>Other works on his website include a childlike picture of pop star Britney Spears being pierced by a javelin, entitled Britney Speared, and a painting of former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson on a three-wheeled bike, entitled Trike Tyson.

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Street-artist-daubs-f-Toyota-Aygo-billboard-Hedon/story-21652689-detail/story.html

Is it art, lads?
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>> No. 4962 Anonymous
17th July 2014
Thursday 6:44 pm
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He took a bold pun and then changed it back to its bland original meaning just because it gives him the opportunity to paint a swearword in foot-high letters? I don't think I've ever seen anything more teenlad.
>> No. 4963 Anonymous
17th July 2014
Thursday 6:52 pm
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I'd say yeah it's art, just pretty cliched unoriginal and a bit crap.
>> No. 4964 Anonymous
17th July 2014
Thursday 7:19 pm
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>>4961

I have to agree with the other posters by saying yes, but it's a bit shit. Although defacing ads is an inherently holy deed, so Listen04 gets a pass.
>> No. 4965 Anonymous
17th July 2014
Thursday 8:30 pm
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Surely the marketing team would have anticipated precisely this outcome, with the expectation that it would get them even more publicity? In fact, they could even have hired the "artist" to do it.
>> No. 4966 Anonymous
17th July 2014
Thursday 9:05 pm
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>Britney Speared
>Trike Tyson

He sounds like the kind of bloke that quotes Monty Python.
>> No. 4967 Anonymous
17th July 2014
Thursday 10:15 pm
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>>4965
I'm pretty sure that the marketing team at Toyota's main strategy was to get in the Hull Daily Mail thanks to some overgrown teenlad doing the equivalent of a schoolboy drawing cocks and swastikas on his textbooks.
>> No. 5015 Anonymous
23rd July 2014
Wednesday 4:08 pm
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>>4967
> schoolboy drawing cocks and swastikas on his textbooks
> on his textbooks
What a dullard of a schoolboy.
>> No. 5016 Anonymous
23rd July 2014
Wednesday 5:42 pm
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>>5015

Well, yeah, they are usually pretty thick.
>> No. 5017 Anonymous
23rd July 2014
Wednesday 5:46 pm
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>>5016
What does the page count have to do with it?
>> No. 5018 Anonymous
23rd July 2014
Wednesday 5:57 pm
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>>5017
What does page count have to do with it? Maybe they're just printed on really heavy stock.
>> No. 5019 Anonymous
23rd July 2014
Wednesday 5:58 pm
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>>5017

Everything.
>> No. 5424 Anonymous
22nd September 2016
Thursday 4:08 pm
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a lot of his stuff seems a bit derivative of what these lads are up to on the continent
http://germesgang.tumblr.com/
>> No. 5425 Anonymous
22nd September 2016
Thursday 4:25 pm
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>>4962

This.

In the age of viral marketing I wouldn't put it passed Toyota to have done it for the free press.

>>4967
>schoolboy drawing cocks and swastikas on his textbooks.

Only it is more stupid and pointless because it what the author originally intended. It would be like drawing swastikas arm band on a picture of Adolf Hitler arm band when he had forgot to wear it during the photoshoot.
>> No. 5426 Anonymous
22nd September 2016
Thursday 9:27 pm
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>>5424
Good to know there's still some people racking shitty car paint and desperately trying get coverage bare concrete out there. Makes me feel all nostalgic.

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