>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.
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.
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.
>>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.
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.
>>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.