Street Bombing

So, this girl from San Diego has recently been knitting seemingly non-random advertisements and placing them on sign posts around San Diego and Golden Hill, California. Kinda’ odd don’t you think? Well, her work has recently been noticed by members of the media and even reached as far as a news story about “guerrilla marketing” in San Diego, California by The Union Tribune.

The news article is a pretty good read. They go over how Shepard Fairey (originally from San Diego, CA) kind of started the whole guerrilla marketing concept with his Andre The Giant (OBEY) campaign in the late ’90s. The article is focused on how major marketing companies have recently been mixing street art concepts with their advertising in attempts of gaining street credit…and more sales.

Anyways, back to the girl. Her name is Natalie Holford. She documents all of her “hits” at her blog over at blogspot and she has nick-named her pieces “pole warmers.” She also needs to wake the hell up and realize that she’s, just like every other vandal out there, defacing property which is not hers…which is illegal of course. In the news article she stated, “The reason I do it is because I like to see something that I created in a public place.”; that sounds remarkably similar to common reasons graffiti artists/vandals say about why they do what they do. Oh, but it gets better. She further said, “I like that you can remove a pole warmer and it leaves nothing behind, unlike other types of guerrilla art.”; that doesn’t put aside the fact that you are still defacing property which is not yours!
Gotta’ love the new kids.

Update: (Oct. 16, 2007) Chick needs to learn respect…oh, and I found this related article: Off the hook street art <- Even funnier of a read than the above.