{"id":6111,"date":"2010-04-26T21:02:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T21:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=6111"},"modified":"2010-04-26T21:02:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T21:02:03","slug":"fading-ads-pickled-in-pixels-j-david-goodman-ny-times-city-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2010\/04\/26\/fading-ads-pickled-in-pixels-j-david-goodman-ny-times-city-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Fading Ads – Pickled in Pixels – J. DAVID GOODMAN – NY Times City Room"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Walter Grutchfield 14to42.net<\/p><\/div>\n

The Fading Ad Blog<\/strong>, among other notable blogs on the subject – was mentioned again by the NY Times<\/strong>. J. David Goodman<\/strong> wrote a wonderful article that focuses on what I have coined “fading ads”<\/a> and the work of the veteran urban archaeologist – Walter Grutchfield <\/strong>of the 14to42 website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Before I started \u00a0The Fading Ad Campaign<\/a><\/strong> in 1997, these urban palimpsests were known as ghost signs<\/em>. In an attempt to raise them from the dead, I used the term fading ads<\/em> since I was wrestling with my own mortality with HIV\/AIDS and drawing parallels to these signs’ unexpected long life and my own. I see them as metaphors of survival rather than a spectral afterglow of capitalism’s castoffs.<\/p>\n

In 1999 when I launched my website, I realized I belonged to a community of urban archaeologist that included the likes of William Stage (Riverfront Times & Ghost Signs)<\/strong>, James Lileks<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>(The Bleat)<\/strong><\/a>, Kevin Walsh <\/strong>(Forgotten-NY)<\/strong><\/a> and Walter Grutchfield<\/strong><\/a> – all of whom were supportive of my early online presence. Since then, a wave of documentation has occurred on both sides of the Atlantic with Sam Roberts UK Brick Ads<\/a><\/strong> in London and other micro sites in the US from Lawrence O’Toole’s Philadelphia Ghost Sign Project<\/a><\/strong> and Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Fading Ad Blog, among other notable blogs on the subject – was mentioned again by the NY Times. J. David Goodman wrote a wonderful article that focuses on what I have coined “fading ads” and the work of the veteran urban archaeologist – Walter Grutchfield of the 14to42 website. Before I started \u00a0The Fading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[842,1192,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kevin-walsh","category-photography","category-walter-grutchfield"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-1Az","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}