A few nice animals for free images I found:
Unknown Company's "Break Out of the Norm" Aggressive Urban Blight Campaign
Image by RR Anderson
URBAN APATHY: A Gift from our friends at Clear Channel Outdoor, Northwest Trek and [i forget which design firm]--A sad stretch of Sprague in Tacoma Washington.
One of these signs is 'distressed' on purpose. ironically making it blend in instead of break out of any norm.
ps. I hate billboards.
- - - EMAIL TO CAPTIVEYAK FROM PRESIDENT OF BAN BILLBOARD BLIGHT - - -
Thanks for sending this. I’ve been following the Tacoma situation with some interest since coming across an article a few years ago about Clear Channel’s Constitutions Matter signs.
But whether or not people think digital billboards are bad, or that the swap is a good deal, everyone ought to be concerned about the apparently subversion of public process. Since you seem familiar with what’s going on here in L.A., you probably know that the same thing happened here in 2006, when the city council approved—without any public debate—a lawsuit settlement with Clear Channel and CBS Outdoor that would have allowed them to convert 840 billboards to digital. A smaller billboard company then sued the city, and last fall a judge overturned the settlement. It’s now in the Appeals Court, but most legal observers believe that the judgment will be upheld, because there’s repeated legal precedent that cities have to follow established procedures—notification, hearings, etc.—before making these kind of decisions.
While there are differences in land use law from state to state, I suspect the same general principles may apply in Washington, and there may be a legal case for challenging the settlement on the grounds that it didn’t go through the proper public process. Unfortunately, fighting these big, litigious deep-pocketed companies in court is a daunting task.
You also may be interested to know that there’s been a drawn-out battle over digital billboards in Durham, N.C., and the city council there just voted unanimously not to allow them. I suppose that a billboard company lawsuit will be the next chapter of that story. What’s actually happening, court-wise, is that that the billboard industry keeps putting forth the argument that any limitations on billboards are unconstitutional. While various courts, including the Supreme Court, have rejected this argument and allowed restrictions, all the way up to total bans, the industry is obviously hoping that if they keep suing they may eventually get a sympathetic hearing and a ruling that commercial speech and individual speech are both fully protected.
Best,
Dennis
Dennis Hathaway
President, Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight
2700 Military Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064
banbillboardblight.org/
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Image by Morelen
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20071010 - Beavis - 139-3980 - Carolyn & Beavis
Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
PLEASE don't scratch our new 50 TV, Beavis!
See the square wooden piece of furniture on the right? at a yardsale many years ago. Hey, it just happens to be wide enough to fit our TV on. Looks like we have avoided buying furniture once again. We've still only bought 2 pieces of furniture in our life: a 0 Sauder entertainment center, and a computer desk. Everything else in our house is sub-. Even the leather couches valued at 00 (Free!).
Carolyn.
sitting.
Beavis the cat, TV.
Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
October 10, 2007.
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