Culture Jam - spread it thick

Culture jamming is a form of consumer protest designed to undermine or subvert marketing messages. It is an idea that organizations like Adbusters have been implementing to great effect at a corporate level by placing subversive advertising next to legitimate adverts, but it is also something that has been equally effective at street level when done by anonymous individuals scribbling their opinions over a billboard



















If this is a battle between the consumer and the advertiser, with the consumer trying to retain the ability to choose how to govern their lives without being dictated to by the likes of Gucci, Nike, Ipod, CokaCola, Nestle, Uni-lever,Tesco,Walmart, etc etc, all aided in their quest to manipulate the masses by their repulsive parasitic minions know as “celebrity's", then it is vital that the consumer knows who the enemy is and how to fight the battle.

In the midst of warfare if an Army is unarmed the obvious strategy is to take the weapon of the enemy from it and use the weapon against the enermy.

Here are some other words of wisdom from Sun Tzu's The Art of War

"So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will win hundred times in hundred battles. If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you win one and lose the next. If you do not know yourself or your enemy, you will always lose. "

"… what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy"

"To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy"

"Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization"

"Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy"

Imagine an underground journey free from the invasive images that penetrate your Psyche and direct your conscience stream of thought.....

Imagine if this space was allowed to be used by artist to exhibit their work....
.....perhaps even graffiti artists? (especially now that Banksy has gained the genre some much over due public support and recognition as a valuable and serious art form.)

YOU TOO CAN SPEAK OUT, YOU HAVE A VOICE, take a pen with you when you travel, let your feelings be known to those who speak to you via billboards, speak back to them and make it a dialogue, not a dictatorial.