How Do You Define Consent? - Part III

The drawing style looks familiar but I don't know who the artist is. I also can't tell if the dialogue is from the original or if it's been altered.

How Do You Define Consent? - Part II

I found three in the Consent series posted in the NYU area. When I see stuff like this around NYU, I guess that it's the work of a newly- actualized wymyn's studies major fighting the white male power structure.

How Do You Define Consent? - Part I

The text for this social statement is from a site called Anarchist People of Color. The art was lifted from "Love and Rockets".

If you find an image in a widely published comic book, is it okay to use it in your radical feminist propaganda? How do you define consent?

Photographs of your Special Pets

Photographers can grab a slice of the pet-lover pie, as photographer Shell Sheddy attempts here.

"Lifestyle" Photography

But wait, Shell will also take pictures of your "Lifestyle, Roleplay or Fantasy fun". So if you want shots of you and a special friend doing it doggie style, please specify which kind.

Pet Portraits

I found this near Union Square and I'll bet that in every city in America there's an artist attempting to make a cottage industry out of painting dogs and cats.

Defend Brooklyn

I found this in Williamsburg where luxury hi-rise condos are going up all along the waterfront. This is a great looking piece of propaganda but advocating resistance to development in New York doesn't show any knowledge of the city's history. The war against real estate developers was lost over a hundred years ago.

!Bloomberg!

More interesting than political causes are rants. You can read this flyer in two languages and still not understand who Adames is or why Bloomberg should step down. But what this flyer lacks in rationality it makes up for in typography.

HELP! Change Television

Political and social causes often create flyers that have more emotional charge than good sense, like this mini-poster I found taped to a lightpost in my neighborhood.

The graffito makes a good point - "Throw out your TV. Interact with humans not a box. Get out. Get life." With everything there is to see and do in NYC, why be concerned about what's on TV, and a ratings system that is becoming less and less relevant every day?

U.S. Budo Kai-Kan

This would be a typical computer generated flyer except for the kick ass clip art. Hai-ya!

Would of Entertainment and Fashions

Computers have taken the fun out of flyers. Now anyone can produce a semi-professional, semi-interesting posting. Most of what I see fits that description.

Here's proof that you don't need a computer to make a great flyer. You don't even need your sanity.

I found this on a lamp post in the East Village.

Beers for Barcelona!

The flyer that started the collection. They were posted all over the East Village.

If you can't read the text, it says, "Support Katie and Jessica's big trip to Spain. We'll be behind the bar at St. Mark's Ale House, and plan to travel on your tips!" There's also the promise of "Live entertainment and fun surprises."

This flyer misses one of the main points of advertising which is to highlight a benefit to the reader. If I come down to the St. Mark's Ale House, what's in it for me? This is like an ad for Chase saying "Bring your money to Chase so that we can all get fat bonuses at the end of the year."

Of course if Chase had live entertainment and fun surprises, that might persuade me.