Boing Boing had an image remix challenge this week that tackled the over-the-top “anti-terrorism” posters created by the London police. The paranoia inducing ad campaign got a very funny remixing by the blog’s readers.
The Original:

The Remixes:

Boing Boing has a bunch more here.

Urban Prankster points us to an interesting video round up of recent activity by New York City based ad-remix artist Posterboy. In three clips he explains the motivation behind his recent adbusting work, and he’s shown at work in the subway, very casually cutting up ads and chatting.

Perhaps the most curious video is one of Posterboy single-handedly taking down an entire vinyl billboard. In his interview, he cryptically speaks of this act as a sign of things to come. Is he going large scale with ad art? Keep an eye out for strange looking billboards, as the ensuing work [...]

Make magazine has linked to a nice piece of adbusting / street art found in Berlin. A crew of artists (Mr. Tailon, Baveux Prod., Kone & Epoxy) have done up a slick pop music advertisement with a Photoshop makeover. Typical Photoshop windows have been wheatpasted over the faces of three ubiquitous top 40 music stars, perhaps commenting on all the behind the scenes image making that goes on in that world. For more images, head over to Ekosystem. This also reminded us of another real world / digital world mashup we noticed last year.
[via Make & Wooster Collective]