Last Sunday, the 25th, the volunteers of NYSAT 2 hit the streets and did their level best to whitewash illegal advertisements and install artwork in NYC. For my part, I joined with my team- “Team Awesome” or “Team Tonic” (TONYC) – made up of the fabulous TEETH, the intrepid Sean Martindale and Eric Cheung, and the extraordinary I AM.

We strategized. We schemed. We divided up and recombined, Voltron-Style, to conquer.

Below is a video of all the work that our team put up on illegal NPA outdoor advertising billboards. (Except for Eric’s, which I didn’t get any shots of, but you can check out here.)

NPA was out in force this time. Details are still coming in, but it would seem that there were several heated confrontations with NPA’s thuggish employees, and about 7 arrests of participants. Watch Public Ad Campaign for more details. In our case, we were able to avoid any problems again (Team Awesome!) even though NPA was quite active in our area; our works were covered quickly and several of our works ended up on top of freshly pasted ads because NPA got to the whitewashed billboards before we could. In fact, the billboards were sometimes still slick with paste- paste that we were able to take advantage of and put to good use.

Thanks again to Jordan Seiler for organizing this import event. Best of luck to those dealing with arrests- know that you’ve got our suppot. NPA, I think that you’re going to have to deal with this, this time. Your chickens are coming home to roost.