Street Artist Behind Hacked NYPD 'Drone' Attack Ads Speaks Out

'Essam' on dropping a bomb with parodies

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Meet "Essam." The dude caused a stir by plastering NYC with hundreds of satirical posters. Some of his work, which apes Apple's silhouette iPod ads, criticizes the NYPD's aerial obsessions with slogans like "Drones: Protection when you least expect it." Another poster zings Mayor Bloomberg with a Big Brother-esque image and the spelling-challenged slogan "Always Wathching." So, what does the 29-year-old art-school grad, who also claims to have served as a "geo-spatial analyst" for the U.S.

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