After the weekend's New York Street Advertising Takeover, the main illegal billboard operator (NPA Outdoor) quickly repasted a lot of the billboards with new posters.

Fortunately some decent people caught these posters while the glue was still wet, so managed to uncover Phil Lumbang's 'Hug Life'.

artist: Phil Lumbang
location: NYC

images via Shai Dahan/ Abztract

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Back in April Jordan Seiler's Public Ad Campaign organized a takeover of about 120 illegal billboards in NYC; each was whitewashed, and repainted by an artist.
Yesterday was round two; this time another 114 billboards were targeted; some of the results are below:


Phil Lumbang


Phil Lumbang


Shai Dahan


Gaia & Clown Soldier


Gaia & Clown Soldier


Phil Lumbang


Beth Whitney in the Meat Packing district


Posterchild


Unfortunately the illegal billboard companies (chief offender: NPA Outdoor) swiftly reclaimed a lot of the billboards with fresh low-budget ads.

Read more of the story on the New York Times, the Public Ad Campaign's website, and see more images on Animal NYC and The Street Spot.

update: see more of NYSAT on unurth here.

images by Shai Dahan, Stephany Won, Posterchild, PAC & Gaia

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Phil Lumbang's 'awesome bears' are just that, and this is a really nice set of photos and timelapse video of Phil's latest wall, shot by the great photographer William Anthony, and filmed by Triggerstreet.com. See more here.

More recent Lumbang work here.

artist: Philip Lumbang
location: Los Angeles

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I really like Philip Lumbang's work, so it's great to see some new 'friendly bears'. Phil's just launched a website, and joined twitter - this is some recent work he's been tweeting.

See older work here. Some originals and prints are available at Abztract.

artist: Philip Lumbang
location: Los Angeles

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I featured a Phil Lumbang mural recently, but this is even bigger and better, and the first time Phil has used color. The friendly bears are joined by a raccoon and a bird.

artist: Phil Lumbang
location: Silverlake, Los Angeles