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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Local Boy Does Good

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/arts-and-culture-everything/item/41432-writing-a-wrong-artist-repurposes-bandit-signs-in-south-philly&Itemid=4

Outsider artist, going by the name "Huggie", takes down bandit (illegal) signs in South Philly and re-purposes them.  He manipulates the text and places them in a new location.  "We Buy Houses" becomes "We Hex Houses" and he places it in front of a row of abandoned homes.  Huggie feels the bandit signs are disrespectful because they are placed in large quantities in the poorest neighborhoods, taking advantage of the local people and creating a trashy look.

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