Tats Cru

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Defaced Tats Cru Hummer ad, 2nd Street off of Avenue A, NYC, (6/17/05).

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﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿ /streetart#+_♥.tk www.ALT3.tk says:

nice find

the roadster a stencil? and how big ?

6reetings
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Irene Roxanne (aka Irena Kittenclaw) says:

Greetings...the hummer is spray painted, it's done by the Tats Cru. It's an ad, and it's huge - about 12 ft x 16 ft (?) I'd guess. It was a tad tricky getting a decent shot as there were cars and piles of garbage parked a few feet away on front.

I live around the block from the ad, and for weeks it was intact, though I didn't expect that to last too long... www.democracymeansyou.com/satire/citizen/humm er.htm
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

larry&flo says:

I want to send this to my friend who just bought a Hummer 2?
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Irene Roxanne (aka Irena Kittenclaw) says:

Heh heh...please do...
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Barb Henry says:

Funny how defacing becomes a part of the whole art. Very striking.
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

giantmonster says:

that is quite lovely. nice to see culture co-opted ads by hummer getting done up right. keep it up!
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Paolo.Pace says:

While I completely agree with the sentiment depicted in the defaced comments, I somehow have a feeling that if this thing were powered by a hydrogen fuel cell people would still find something to complain about. 'It's too big!' 'Snob-mobile' etc.

I think more than other gas guzzlers, the Hummer represents elitist snobbery more than fuel consumption and pollution, and that's what gets people's ire up.

Of course, what do I know?
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

pylbug says:

I'll bet that spray paint is not environmentally friendly... meaning there's a huge, fundamental hypocrisy to this "piece".
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

jason c. arnold says:

SUV's suck....so I'm glad someone defaced this wall. The word "sell out " speaks for itself.
If it was in my street I would have some the same thing! DOWN WITH SUV's!!!!!!!!
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Crunchy Pickle says:

Was it originally a paid commission, or a parody?
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Irene Roxanne (aka Irena Kittenclaw) says:

A paid commission, originally.

Story picked up by Adrants www.adrants.com/ and Wooster Collective www.woostercollective.com/2005/06/more-graf-a ds-getting-d... !
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

108 is NIHIL says:

Use bike, destroy cars!
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

labrona says:

hahaha thatll learn em...
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

peace17 says:

Going corporate is hard to stomach, the fact that tats cru went corporate and like this with hummer? well i can already taste the acidic reminants of my last meal.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

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