I saw one for the first time while walking past a poster of the Jennifer Aniston pic, Rumor Has It, yesterday: a big empty white word balloon coming right out of the Friend’s mouth. I thought it was part of the poster, its blank space some sort of Kaufman-esque pitch having to do with the vapidity of celebrity culture. But at the 14th St. station tonight, I saw a few more, on different posters, and I realized that these professionally printed stick-ons are some artist/prankster’s works of media detournement. Amplifying the intention of the movie poster — to “draw you […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 14, 2005