GIANT movie billoard on Park and 23rd...is it painted?

[itsallgoode9]

http://www.indiescene.net/archives/departed_big.jpg

i walk past this building on my way to work every day and am dying to know whether these move ads are actually painted or some sort or poster thingy they paste on in sections.

At first, i would assume that they are actually posters put up there but when they are in the middle of putting a new advertisement up it actually looks like they are painting. i mean, areas look like they are blocked out with colors and some areas look unfinished at times. You don't see sections of paper being pasted up....not to mention you can actually see the brick shapes behind the image.....But on the other hand, this seems like a TREMENDOUS undertaking to paint this, and it the speed at which these go up make me think they can't be painted.

..so in the end, i have no clue and i haven't been able to find info on google about this. hmmmm....anybody know?

[lofter1]

There is a building on the south side of Houston Street just east of Boradway where the signs are always painted (lately with Steve Madden or H&M ads) ...

Most likely painted because that building is wihtin the SoHo Historic District.

Across both Crosby Street and Houston Street (outside the Historic District) they use the huge vynil poster-like imagery for ads instead of painting.

On the other hand the two big walls above the Duane Reade on the NW corner of W. 42nd / Eighth Avenue are often painted, and that is not within a protected district which might require painting.

A long answer to say "who knows?" ...

[ablarc]

^ How do they lay out the painting?

(Must involve great artistic skill or a technological trick.)

[itsallgoode9]

i've done larger scale backdrops for plays in the past and the way we did it was to make a grid on both the image and the canvas....1ftx1ft grid, or whatever size you want. That keeps it on a small scale with more reference points to judge from. From that point it becomes more of a technical effort rather than an artistic. I would assume the go about it the same way.

[ablarc]

Srill requires skill, judgment and a good eye. Those guys must be unsuccessful artists making a down and dirty living.

[avgeneral]

Wow. I didn't know signs are still painted. Must take a lot of effort to paint that whole sign though. Interesting

[lofter1]

Painted Wall Ads ...

THEN ...

Painted Signs, Relics of a Bygone New York,
Become Even More Rare

http://www.frankjump.com/05signs2.html

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/11/05/nyregion/05sign.6.jpg
G. Paul Burnett/The New York Times
A Nemuth Blacksmith Welding sign on a building on Halperin Avenue in the Bronx.

They are hieroglyphics of a bygone New York, writings on walls redolent of a time when women wore corsets, nearly every parlor seemed to have a piano and buggies could be hired for a genteel ride up the avenue once a blacksmith shod the horses ...


AND NOW ...

Flash, Dash and Now, Art

NY TIMES (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/17/arts/design/17cone.html?ex=1276660800&en=6455516deb4b1cbd&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/06/16/arts/coney.184.2.650.jpg
Ting-Li Wang/The New York Times
Two signs by the duo known as Morning Breath.