Houston is the only city in the USA that has banned new billboards. It was an honor for us to have the visit of Mayor Parker to our screening. Read More →Blog
Mayor Annise D. Parker at our screening in Houston
Houston is the only city in the USA that has banned new billboards. It was an honor for us to have the visit of Mayor Parker to our screening. Read More →This Space Available at TIFF Next Wave
May 10-12 2012, Tiff Next Wave is the only teenager’s film festival organized and judged by teenagers. This Space Available was received with great enthusiasm by the Tween generation and their teachers who found in the fight against visual pollution a powerful cause to endorse in order to preserve the visual sanity of their environment. . It was amazing to see that unlike their older generations, the Tween generation does not want to give up their public spaces to the commercial media and are ready to do something about it. Read More →This Column Is Not Sponsored by Anyone
We love this article by Pulitzer prize winner Thomas L. Friedman on visual pollution. Quoting from Michael Sandel’s new book ” What Money Can’t Buy” he writes ” Over the last three decades, we have drifted from having a market economy to becoming a market society” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/opinion/sunday/friedman-this-column-is-not-sponsored-by-anyone.html Read More →
Post-Screening of This Space Available in New York
Brazilian Cultural Consul receives award on behalf of Sao Paulo Mayor Gilberto Kassab for his Clean City Law. Read More →Gwenaelle and Marc Gobe with Brian Lehrer in New York
Television interview on Visual Pollution and its impact on society Read More →How many billboards have you seen today?
This Space Available thinks the answer is probably “too many”. …his new Doc premieres today http://t.co/JRqEHEdy Read More →
Crimes Against Nature
In Florida a major national billboard company encourages employees to poison trees in order to “clear” a billboard view zone. Read More →Graffiti is a language that cannot be ignored
Everything I had ever heard about graffiti is that it is bad, it is gang-related, illegal and that the strictest laws put offenders in jail. Taggers are relentlessly harassed, and in New York if you provide information leading to a graffiti artist’s arrest, the city gives you $500. Read More →In St. Nazaire, Felice Varini paints the town red
It is easy to imagine what the look of a city could be, with the help of landlords, government and corporations, if it became an outdoor museum unto itself. This idea had occurred to me many times before, but I actually found it in St. Nazaire, an industrial harbor town in France, a city that took on the challenge of transforming a docking zone into a work of art. Read More →Coloring Book
