Spending Time With Poster Boy (Video: YouTube)
Ed Pilkington, at the Guardian, informs us that the anti-consumerist artist known as Poster Boy has been busted by the NYPD. Just last month, the Guardian did a piece on Poster Boy’s guerilla slicing-and-dicing in New York’s subway system.
Armed with only a razor and ever vigilant about his anonymity, Poster Boy cuts up sections of subway advertising posters, mashes them up and delivers whole new, frequently anti-establishment, messages. Says Poster Boy,”The idea of taking your environment into your own hands and making it what you want. As long as you’re not hurting other people, it can’t be bad.”
The NYPD disagrees. So when a flyer announced that Poster Boy would appear at an art event in SOHO, plain clothes officers showed up, arrested Henry Matyjewicz — a 27-year-old from Bushwick, and tossed the artist in a Rikers Island jail cell.
Shortly after Matyjewicz’s arrest, in a Spartacus-worthy twist, an email that claimed Poster Boy was not a single individual but rather a “movement,” was sent to the New York Times. The Times, which describes Poster Boy as “a kind of anti-consumerist Zorro with a razor blade, a sense of humor and a talent for collage,” has more at the link.
Check out Poster Boy’s handiwork at Flickr, Friends We Love, or at this Guardian Gallery.
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