>> ^RedSky:
Michelangelo rolled over in his grave at your use of 'Art'.


I've seen much worse 'round these parts..

So this brings up an interesting point. Is Videosift useful to advertising agencies as a medium for viral marketing?

Hypothetical question of course, because we all know that it is. I don't object to viral advertising when it's allowed to spread... organically? This doesn't seem very organic though. Maybe I'm just a cynic, but when a new user comes on board, and their very first sift is a vid from a viral advertising campaign...

This just feels very heavy-handed. Brutish even. Why do I think this is active viral marketing, and not organic?

Look at the video description above.

"MI6 are supposed to be the UK’s premier secret service, responsible for national security whilst employing the likes of Spooks and James Bond. Unfortunately, they were powerless when another group of agents infiltrated the River Thames and gave them an interrogation of their own.

Known only as ‘Agents of Change’, this crew of graffiti artists went on their own secret mission with a message for MI6, scrawled on the building opposite with lasers hi-tech enough to make Q jealous!"

That's pretty great copy. It's not something your typical sifter would bother to craft. Interestingly, it's also found (verbatim) here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12393612318

The description on YT is simply: "Graffiti by Agents of Change, secrets by MI6, all natural Cola by Red Bull."

Viral marketers: please be more subtle, else you just come off as trying too hard.

So, if they put this stuff (or something similar) on the walls in public bathrooms, whould it stop the ink from sticking to the walls from all the graffiti?

As well as walls and other places Graffiti Artists like to paint...

this guy is talented, and there are even more talented street artists who paint things you'll never see outside of places where you shouldnt really be. truly avante guard.

some of the best graffiti artists ive ever met were also some of the biggest scumbags... it's such a unique scene, and really culminates in true masterpieces... back in the woods, under the freeways, in alleys, in places that sometimes hardly see enough daylight to paint in... if you did a graffiti tour of america and the world it would be time well spent. some of the creativity and technical skill is truly masterful, as you describe.

real graffiti artists do the same thing, adapting the constructed into the whimsical. deregulate social norms, not business ethics!

Fucking awesome! Get all those damned toys off the streets and practicing on their Wii's. Save the walls for real graffiti artists like me >:-}

How every graffiti artist really sees their art.

Posted not so much for the 'smash the state' message, but the cheesetastic acting.

Nonetheless, the information in this video could be very useful if you're a stoner or graffiti artist...

From Stars and Stripes (the Army paper):
http://tinyurl.com/e6pun

A startling Internet video that shows someone spraying graffiti on President Bush's jet looked so authentic that the Air Force wasn't immediately certain whether the plane had been targeted.

It was all a hoax. No one actually sprayed the slogan "Still Free" on the cowling of Air Force One.

The pranksters responsible for the grainy, two-minute Web video - employed by a New York fashion company - revealed Friday how they pulled it off: a rented 747 in California painted to look almost exactly like Air Force One.

"I wanted to do something culturally significant, wanted to create a real pop-culture moment," said Marc Ecko of Marc Ecko Enterprises. "It's this completely irreverent, over-the-top thing that could really never happen: this five-dollar can of paint putting a pimple on this Goliath."



The video shows hooded graffiti artists climbing barbed-wire fences and sneaking past guards with dogs to approach the jumbo jet. They spray-paint a slogan associated with free expression.

After the video began circulating on the Web on Tuesday, the Air Force checked to see whether the plane had been vandalized.

"We're looking at it, too," Lt. Col. Bruce Alexander, a spokesman for the Air Mobility Command's 89th Airlift Wing, which operates Air Force One. "It looks very real."