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Check out this awesome public art project in Vienna, where Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf somehow managed to convince city officials and local businesses to cover all commercial signs and other advertisements for a two-week period.

The photos remind me of Matt Siber's Untitled Project, which appeared in Adbusters a year or two ago. Siber, like Steinbrener and Dempf, digitally manipulates photos, giving them a surreal quality, but Steinbrener and Dempf have brought that surrealism to the work-a-day world.

After seeing Steinbrener and Dempf's simulation of New York, I must say The Gates seems much less ambitious in retrospect.