#advertisement billboard

[shihlun]

Patrick Keiller

- London

1994

[archiveofaffinities]

Ernst Haas, Times Square, 1952

[uncanny-tranny]

This might seem like an "old man yells at cloud" situation, but it's just wild growing up and being told how dangerous distracted driving is - how, at highway speeds, you can traverse the length of a football field (100 yards, 91 meters) in a matter of seconds - how one split second sending a text while driving could result in a potential fatal crash, and then getting on the road as a driver and being surrounded by billboards. Their entire purpose is to catch one's attention, so they're lining major roads, which tend to be highways. How is it that you're told how important it is to never be distracted while driving, but still being advertised to?

At best, this type of advertising is an eyesore to pedestrians and motorists and a general waste of electricity to light it, and at worst, it is an active danger considering they are there to advertise and therefore, must catch people's attention.

I'm not even against advertising in theory, but this particular mode bothers me so much and I hate how pervasive it is - especially in large cities or highways.

[iizuumi]

[problemnyatic]

Yeah yeah linux having problems is a big joke but honestly have you considered that linux wouldn't run like shit if it didn't have to reverse engineer byzantine proprietary drivers and hardware architecture and deliberately hostile BIOS firmware and one thousand other things that exist solely to force everything that isn't a corporate OS to suffer miserably on every computer ever

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

Billboard for 7 Up at 7th & Hennepin, Minneapolis (1971) via @hclib

[pseudospectre]

I thought Tumblr would love to know that the Ronald Reagan monument in Branson is basically just an empty lot now except for the bust up on a pallet, and is currently being used to advertise the Slime Factory next door.

[hongtonie]

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[godwantsit]

[389]

Since the 1960s, Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip has hosted a kaleidoscope of custom-built billboards. They’ve been labeled variously as “sky trash” and art. An architecture critic once called a 70-foot Marlboro Man “one of the most effective landmarks in the confusing landscape of our city.” Timeline put together a photographic field trip to the Sunset Strip’s last 50 years of billboard advertising.

Timeline

[retropopcult]

Times Square, 1952

[archiveofaffinities]

Tokyo, Japan

[coolthingsguyslike]

[kickasscentral]

i present you all with my magnum opus:

turbo if he was sponsored by mug root beer

[colonellickburger]

Elliott Erwitt. Valdes Peninsula, Argentina, 2001

[webdiggerxxx]

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