Young entrepreneurs make it big with hand-painted street ads

By Carolyn Webb
Updated February 7 2016 - 8:08pm, first published 7:30pm
A hand-painted mural to promote Zoolander 2 on La Trobe Street in Melbourne. Photo: Jesse Marlow
A hand-painted mural to promote Zoolander 2 on La Trobe Street in Melbourne. Photo: Jesse Marlow
A mural of actor Ben Stiller. Photo: Jesse Marlow
A mural of actor Ben Stiller. Photo: Jesse Marlow
Artists Jason Parker and James Dewing  work on the Zoolander 2 mural. Photo: Jesse Marlow
Artists Jason Parker and James Dewing work on the Zoolander 2 mural. Photo: Jesse Marlow
La Trobe Street mural. Photo: Jesse Marlow
La Trobe Street mural. Photo: Jesse Marlow
A hand-painted mural of the actor Ben Stiller promoting the new movie Zoolander 2 on February 5 in Melbourne Photo: Jesse Marlow
A hand-painted mural of the actor Ben Stiller promoting the new movie Zoolander 2 on February 5 in Melbourne Photo: Jesse Marlow
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 05:  A hand-painted mural of the actor Ben Stiller promoting the new movie Zoolander 2 on February 5, 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. McBride's company Apparition Media are reviving the days of hand-painting murals to advertise products on walls around Melbourne.  (Photo by Jesse Marlow/Fairfax Media) Photo: Jesse Marlow
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 05: A hand-painted mural of the actor Ben Stiller promoting the new movie Zoolander 2 on February 5, 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. McBride's company Apparition Media are reviving the days of hand-painting murals to advertise products on walls around Melbourne. (Photo by Jesse Marlow/Fairfax Media) Photo: Jesse Marlow

A fledgling advertising company is earning up to $200,000 a job by returning to old-fashioned hand-painted outdoor murals.

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