Busted!

(All signs posted in San Diego) This one’s worth clicking on to see full size: 805 Southbound around City Heights. Placed in less than fifteen seconds using two wire coat hangars and a bungee. Up for at least an hour.


While I was taking pictures of this one (I-5 South Downtown,) an SDPD cruiser pulled over and the cop asked me if I’d put it up, so I said “Yeah.” He said, “Nice work.” so I said “Thanks!” and then he just drove off without saying another word.

I watched to see if he was going to take it down and he didn’t. Cool guy.


Pedestrian bridge over the I-15 North in Kensington, slipped sign in between iron rails and chain link, took less than five seconds to post. Duration unknown.

I-8 heading East. This one took me by surprise because I didn’t put it up. Whoever did though, damn nice work. You could see the thing for at least a quarter mile – long enough to get my camera, turn it on and get the picture. It looked gorgeous and was still up at three p.m.

I-5 heading north, one of my favorite spots, behind the Mountain Bike Warehouse: practically impossible to miss by five lanes of heavy traffic and utterly invisible to everyone else. By duct-taping a coat hangar to the top of the sign and then dropping it over the spikes, the actual posting time was about one second. Even though it’s only about twenty feet from the freeway, you’d have to drive about fifteen miles to take it down.


I-15 South, six feet long , slid between rails and fencing. Although “Peace on Earth” signs are relatively toothless politically, they sure stay up for a long time. I’m still seeing ones I put up in December. Maybe that’s the thing to do: stick up “Peace on Earth” signs for awhile and just try to reach as many people as I can.

We're engaged in an information war: On one side you’ve got the corporate media backed by billions of dollars and the entire military industrial complex. On the other side you’ve got a bunch of artists and activists with almost no funding or broadcast media access whatsoever. In the middle you’ve got freeways being driven by probably half the population: millions and millions of people with nothing to look at except corporate billboards and graffiti. We need to start taking better advantage of this.

Collectively the signs on this page cost about two dollars and took about five hours to make and post. They were probably seen by a quarter million people.

Phoenix/McSloganator

Introducing the McSloganator!

All signs and McSloganator courtesy of our guy in Phoenix.

Around California/Saroyan

"The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business."
(all quotes by) William Saroyan

"Remember that every man is a variation of yourself."

"I am deeply opposed to violence in all its forms,
and yet I myself am violent in spirit, in my quarrel with the unbeatable:
myself, my demon, God, the human race, the world, time, pain, disorder, disgrace and death."

“Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."

"I have made a fiasco of my life, but I have had the right material to work with."

"I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness."

"The purpose of my life is to put off dying as long as possible."

Arsenal of Democracy: The Printer

Hey Scarlet, here's a simple method for those who don't have overhead projectors. It'll cost a little more in printer ink and paper, but it's super fast once you get going. The easiest way is to use Word or Powerpoint and put a single large letter on each page. Optionally, you can add graphics.

Simply print (in draft mode to save ink) and paste on cardboard with glue stick. Bonus tip: Use high-visibility, neon paper for that extra wow-factor.

A more advanced technique uses Publisher software. This allows you to have words/letters span page breaks, but unless your printer prints to the edge of the paper, you will need to trim the overlap paper when aligning the text. In Publisher, choose a "Banner" publication and enter the dimensions that most closely fit your sign dimensions.

Enter your text and any graphics so that they fit your chosen size. I prefer to use "Word Art" for my text because it resizes really well (Insert Picture Word Art). Be sure to do Print Preview before printing!

After printing, you'll need to trim the overlap space, and paste with a glue stick. This is a little more work, but the results are great.

Peace, Love and Free Speech,
Maria in AZ

St. Louis

http://xenu.net

http://enturbulation.org/




http://whyaretheydead.net

http://whyweprotest.net

St. Paul, MN

from Coleen Rowley

Hey Scarlet,

We’ve now made a total of 140 banners but, sewn back to back, that only yields 70. And many have been farmed out to other peace vigil groups so no longer at my immediate access. But since it only takes about 13 or 14 to cover an entire footbridge, I think we have enough right now for four entire footbridges (between Minneapolis and St. Paul , each a different color) if we can get enough volunteers to hold the sides.
We’re planning big interactive motorist showings on Sat. June 14th (Flag Day) and Sunday June 15th (Fathers Day). Coleen R.

LA

"To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities." - Goethe

"If you want truly to understand something, try to change it." -Kurt Lewin


"If you want me to believe in your Redeemer, you're going to have to look a lot more redeemed." - Friedrich Nietzche

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anais Nin

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness." -Chuang-tzu

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."-George E. Woodbury