you thought we wouldn't notice but we did…

Italian street graffiti artist ‘Blu’ ripped by UK ad agency ‘RKCR’

YTWWN: This may not be a rip but a good example of what happens when an artist doesn't work with advertising agencies- they just make something that has the same style.

The original - Italian street graffiti artist Blu's beautiful, painstaking video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4&eurl=http://koletink.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/blu-brings-life-to-graffiti-art/&feature=player_embedded

And, UK ad agency RKCR's BBC radio six advert rip-off:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2009/jan/09/bbc-advertising

Please note: not only the visual image was stolen, but the audio ('Vampire Weekend - A-Punk') and colour palette (see 'dance mat'  dots) was stolen from this video created for The Wrong Door BBC3 comedy show sketch: 'Gamer Girl':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wrongdoor/html/video/dancemat.shtml

Maybe there's some personell cross over between BBC teams with the audio issue, even though the credits don't mention 'RKCR' having created The Wrong Door sketch, but I can't see any such excuse for RKCR's blatant rip of Blu's hard work!!!

We could maybe send them a little message to stop them lazily copying (albeit badly) Blu's amazing creative work and passing it off as their own:

http://www.rkcryr.com