awards “Joey Skaggs: Stop BioPeep”
2025 Best Web/TV Series.
In Case You Are in Romania This Weekend…
“Joey Skaggs: The Solomon Project”
at the
ClujShorts International Film Festival
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Casino Centrul de Cultura Urbana
Cluj-Napoca, România
Tickets are FREE
A Message From Hell
Is he looking for unsatisfied voters? Here’s another entry in the long tradition of unsanctioned sign art.
Why are those ‘We buy souls’ posters all over LA?, by Paula Mejía, SFGate, February 15, 2025, h/t Richard Johnson.
The signs have become a ubiquitous sight on telephone poles across town
There’s hardly an inch of real estate, private or public, that isn’t occupied by advertisements in Los Angeles. You’ve got massive freeway billboards that crowd the sky, painted murals hawking dating apps and digital ads designed to catch your peripheral vision. It also happens on the street level, with bright signs plastered on telephone poles to hopefully attract drivers, pedestrians and bikers.
Yet amid the familiar blocky posters advertising concerts, offers to buy up junk cars, hair braiding and tattoo expos, another type of telephone pole advertising has become ubiquitous around LA for its sheer weirdness. The nondescript white sign features chunky red letters spelling out a cryptic and tantalizing message: “WE BUY SOULS!” A phone number accompanies the message, should interested parties want to call and learn more.
Here Comes the Landlord!
And then? And then?
A Documentary About the Artists Who Built a Secret Apartment Inside of a Rhode Island Mall, by Lori Dorn, Laughing Squid, March 5, 2025
Secret Mall Apartment is a documentary about the eight pioneering artists known as Trummerkind, who secretly built and furnished a 750 square-foot windowless studio apartment inside the Providence Place Mall by using the unused space between store walls.
…The film, which was directed by Jeremy Workman with Jesse Eisenberg onboard as Executive Producer, is premiering in theaters on March 21, 2025.
A Sign of the Times
The writing’s on the wall and the bus stop…
The Street Artist Behind the Viral “Anti-Elon Musk” Ads, by Rhea Nayyar, Hyperallergic, February 24, 2025
Winston Tseng’s satirical ad falsely attributed to USAID at a bike dock in Washington, DC, elicited frenzied responses from Republican Senator Thom Tillis.
Street artist Winston Tseng was behind an anti-Elon Musk ad that led to a viral frenzy when it was installed in various sidewalk ad spaces within a mile of the White House two weeks ago. The ad, satirically attributed to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), read “Help Eliminate Elon” and featured a large red X crossing over an illustration of Musk doing the Nazi salute.
“In the spirit of transparency, I should disclose that USAID paid me $69M (in condoms) for this ad,” Tseng said in an email to Hyperallergic, riffing on Musk’s misunderstanding of the US’s provisions for international HIV prevention and treatment.