Karma Comes To Town

As all of you know, blogging about newspaper items isn't our usual beat. However, when a newspaper item touches on one of our own items, we take notice. This is one of those times. Unfortunately it's on a Sunday, which is also the DBTH day of rest (Bastards!). Last month, we pointed out that Neck Face, a guaranteed starter on the Hipster All Star Team if there ever was one, had in fact sold out. While we never support vandalism, it seems that the Neckface/Vans billboard has been visited by the Splasher, who must fancy themself as the Robin Hood of grafitti (Fact: They aren't). Because of the vandalism, Vans has pulled the ad a week early and New York is temporarily missing a billboard. We aren't going to cry over that.

When Hip Sells Out and Dies

Walking down Lafayette, we came across this billboard by Neck Face, one of our favorite Street Artists. Remember Neck Face, the tag name you could rack your brain around for months and still not know what the hell a neck face was? He used to tag a lot of downtown spots, like this. We always wished we lived in a Neck Face building.


Now we don't. Sigh.



We cried little child tears when we saw who paid for the ad. A sneaker company. Bad Neck Face. Bad. We will never forgive you.