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Santa Monica Freeway Eastbound
(All signs posted in Los Angeles on January 4th.)
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San Diego Freeway Southbound
The building behind this sign, near LAX, represents the latest trend in outdoor advertising: covering entire buildings with vinyl and making billboards seven or eight stories tall. This is why I don't pay much attention to arguments that my humble scraps of cardboard are a dangerous distraction to drivers.
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Ventura Freeway Eastbound
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Santa Monica Freeway Westbound
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Pasadena Freeway - both directions
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San Diego Freeway Northbound
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This is what you need to hang cardboard signs just about anywhere: bungee cords, duct tape, hammer, nails, binder clips, spring clamps, wire coat hangars and a safety vest. Around freeways, a safety vest is like a backstage pass: you instantly look like you belong. Even when you're putting up signs, people think you're taking them down.
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Signs are made using cardboard, duct tape, white and black paint and an overhead projector. Print your message on to a transparency, shine it onto the cardboard (painted white), trace the letters and fill them in. It costs practically nothing and, once you've got the hang of it, takes a lot less time than you'd think: maybe five to ten minutes per sign, large or small.
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With fifty or sixty signs packed into my Prius, I'll be heading north along the I-5 corridor: first to the Bay Area and then, maybe, Portland and Seattle: there's some great posting spots up there. I figure as long as I keep hanging signs and people keep seeing them, eventually some of you are bound to catch on.
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Ventura Freeway Eastbound (above and below)
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So long as money continues to control, and practically monopolize our political dialogue, things will continue to get worse. But if you've got something to say and you're not a PAC, media outlet or corporation, this is how to do it.
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Pasadena Freeway (both directions)
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Hollywood Freeway Northbound
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You are a treasure.
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