The Billboard Liberation Front

SF Book Release of Trespass At City Light Books, Feb 17

February 15th, 2011 by Jack Napier

The Billboard Liberation Front is hosting a book event for the Tashen imprint Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Art at City Lights

Hosts:
City Lights Books, Peter Maravelis and Jack Napier

Featuring:
Taschen editor Ethel SenoPresentation by BLF CIO ______ Blank Decoverly

Short video featuring author Carlo McCormick and Wooster Collective.

Various artists featured in the book will be in attendance – get em all to sign your copy of the book.

Our little event should be a bit different from the signings at the Taschen company stores. BLF Chief Scientist Milton Rand Kalman, retired webmaster Conrad Hoc and I attended the NYC book party and it was more like a movie premier – lotsa schmoozing criminal artists well on their way from the alleys to the galleries hanging with hundreds of downtown art types, hoodie wearing suburban wanna be thugs and scantily clad party goers. We drank for free, filched as many copies of the book as we could and generally had a ball. I’m sure the LA and European premiers were similar.

We hope our shindig will be a bit different. We’re going to have an actual program (of sorts). Editor Ethel Seno will talk a bit about the book and (with luck) briefly interview any and all artists represented in the book that show up.

So far. We hear that Everman from Atlanta, Jason Epink – Catalog of Creative Triumphs and local hero Tony Labat will be in attendance. Who knows who else might be lurking about. Keep an eye out for fake beards and the like.

In the grand tradition of appropriations the BLF will then blatantly promote our own agenda after hijacking someone else’s. BLF CIO _______ DeCoverly will present in words and images: “A Brief History of Ocular Expropriation from Cro Magnon Man to Banksy” _________ or Blank as he is known to slower people, is one of the best copy writers and admen anywhere. Not to be missed!

See ya’ll there. I’ll be the one in black.
-Jack Napier, BLF CEO

______ DeCoverly to appear on SF Game Show

January 18th, 2011 by MiltonRandKalman

Blank DeCoverly, BLF spokesperson will be appearing live along with other SF celebrities at CELLSpace on January 21st!

The greatest game show ever to hit the small screen returns in a star-studded LIVE production!  Watch as two contestants match their wits against a panel of San Francisco’s most outrageous celebrities in a verbal slugfest of double-entendres. The first episode of Match Game SF is here! Tune in on January 21st at CELLSpace as our contestants vie for big prizes for their favorite charity. Not available on TV!  Don’t miss it!

Billboard Liberation agents can use the code ‘majormajor’ to get $2 off advance tickets at Brown Paper Tickets

This months stars are:


Johnny Funcheap
http://sf.funcheap.com/

Stella Artois, A Thing of Beauty

September 30th, 2010 by MiltonRandKalman

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We at the BLF have been assisting fatigued advertising copywriters to strengthen their corporate messages for over thirty years. Advertising is the language of our Culture, as BLF CEO Jack Napier noted almost as many years ago. And the primary use of language is to to communicate ideas. The most efficient and direct communication of an idea comes through the most elegant use of the least amount of words to communicate that idea. It’s quite clear from the image in this Stella Artois billboard ad what the message IS. The BLF merely wishes to assist this campaign by paring down the words in order to match that message most perfectly. - BLF Education Officer, R.O. Thornhill.

The improvement can be seen at 38th St and 8th Ave in midtown New York.

The BLF (www.billboardliberation.com) has been improving outdoor advertising since 1977. Prior campaigns have included work for Exxon, R.J. Reynolds, and Apple Computers.

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