From New York Dick
Certain New Yorkers seemingly never tire of drawing a well-placed penis on top of advertisements. And now graphic designer Galen Smith has taken his tireless efforts of making these members immortal (via photography) and put a picture book together. According to the website, "New York Dick chronicles Smith’s years of documenting suggestive scribbles on advertisements in the New York City subway. Bursting with over a hundred penetrating photos and cocky captions, it examines not only the horn dog nature of the average New Yorker with a Sharpie, but also the effrontery of modern advertising." We are, if nothing else, very mature, New York City.
Smith (who claims he's not a "public prick artist" himself) says, “These defacements, besides being a generalized screw you to the establishment, are part of a dissatisfied dialog with advertising, marketing and consumerism that all of us can relate to. The idiocy of the graphic is part of the kryptonite-like power of the whole enterprise. No matter how multidimensional and superhuman an ad is, it is made flat and feeble by a penis drawn on it. And no matter how ubiquitous and branded an apparent one-way communication is, a disrespectful dickish two way dialog is possible if you want it to be, and if you have a sharpie with you.” Wow, dick doodling just got deep.
Also, how has no one boner-bombed the New York Lottery's Minute to Win It guy yet?
