Artist Profile: Billy Colbert "Corporate Merger"
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A short documentary about DC-based artist Billy Colbert shot between July and December 2007 (before the DC real estate market cooled).
Billy Colbert worked from his studio in an abandoned warehouse at the corner of 14th and T streets in Washington, DC. At the time, the location couldn't be any hotter in terms of its development potential... So Billy could only occupy this space temporarily while the owners of the building searched for development opportunities for their property.
In the meantime, Billy created a series of art, called "Corporate Merger" that examines commercialism in our culture. He combined imagery from bus stop ads, cutting and pasting from various posters to create new posters with ironic new meaning.
Co-Directed by Brandon Bloch and Marc Alexander
Edited by Brandon Bloch
Crew: Deran Brown, Zundra Bradley, Josh Solomon
Billy Colbert worked from his studio in an abandoned warehouse at the corner of 14th and T streets in Washington, DC. At the time, the location couldn't be any hotter in terms of its development potential... So Billy could only occupy this space temporarily while the owners of the building searched for development opportunities for their property.
In the meantime, Billy created a series of art, called "Corporate Merger" that examines commercialism in our culture. He combined imagery from bus stop ads, cutting and pasting from various posters to create new posters with ironic new meaning.
Co-Directed by Brandon Bloch and Marc Alexander
Edited by Brandon Bloch
Crew: Deran Brown, Zundra Bradley, Josh Solomon
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- groups:
- Art and Style, VC2 Top Contenders US
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- tags:
- Art, Advertising, Artist, Arts, 6 more
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- credits:
- BrandonBloch Producer, Co-Director, Editor
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TheodoreSouza
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Awesome pod, super clean. Great work!
- 2 years ago
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TheodoreSouza
