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- This is the Part I from a series of 'Fun with...' files. This one
- concerns billboards. The billboard is a way for businesses to advertise
- cheaply. Well you can make it a little more expensive for them.
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- BILLBOARD BURNING
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-
- It is important to remove billboards. It is also important not to get
- caught (so we can remove more billboards). I have always felt that burning
- billboards (particularly in desert situations) is most effective. But it is
- somewhat "revealing" when a 50 foot high sign explodes in front of your very
- eyes, and those of who-knows who else, lighting up everything around for half
- a mile. But there's a solution.
-
- SCORE hair cream and swimming pool cleaner. I'm completely serious. My
- friend Oscar explained it to me. Now I will tell you. Here are the
- ingredients you will need:
-
- 1 envelope
- 1 tube SCORE hairdressing
- 1 canister HTH swimming pool cleaner (accept no substitutes).
-
- Squirt about 1 and 1/2 inches of SCORE gel in one end of the envelope.
- In
- the other end, sprinkle about 2 tablespoons of HTH (it's granulated chlorine
- and
- will also clear your sinuses if you get too close) in the other end. Now, fold
- the envelope in the middle so the contents can't mix...yet.
-
- Go forth into the night and find a billboard that particularly deserves
- cremation. Liberally douse the posts with gasoline. Now, it is time for the
- envelope. Unfold it and let the HTH mix with the SCORE. In fact, mush it up
- real good with your fingers (on the OUTSIDE of the envelope, you idiot).
- Place
- the potent package at the base of the soaked post, get in your truck and drive
- away.
-
- Four to five minutes later, about the time you're saying, "Yes, a pitcher
- of Bud, please," the envelope will start to smoke and hiss and produce a
- horrid,
- acrid aroma (air pollution) followed by intense heat
- and...Eureka!...spontaneous
- combustion. The flames race up the post spreading rapidly in the dry desert
- heat.
-
- The next day you drive by and chuckle. But a word of warning: practice
- with this stuff first. It takes a while to get the right mixture. If it's
- not
- just right, it may simply smoke alot. Remember, practice makes perfect.
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- BILLBOARD REVISION
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-
- Even more effective than felling, burning or spattering billboards is
- revising them. A group in Sydney, Australia, BUGA UP (Billboard Utilizing
- Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions) has turned the revision of
- billboards
- into a major campaign. The following material is taken (slightly revised)
- from
- their 1981 Spring Catalogue (you can write them at BUGA UP, Box 78, Wentworth
- Bldg, University of Sydney Union, 2006, Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA).
-
- Billboard graffiti is so simple you can organize it around just about
- anything. Even if you only paint one billboard a week, you'll be costing the
- corporate pushers between $500 and $5000 per year, depending on your
- thoroughness. It's a sad fact, but we've learned through long experience that
- money is the only language billboard advertising companies understand.
- Nothing
- will get those ads down faster than if their profits are reduced by escalating
- maintenance costs.
-
- But even more important than this financial factor is the effect that the
- revised ad will have on those who read it. First, select a billboard that you
- find offensive, stupid, or just convienent. It has to be easily accessable
- (ie:
- not on top of a building) and should make sense to change.
-
- Purchase a common brand of spray paint that can be purchased through any
- number of retail stores or large discount houses. Shop at different places --
- spread your business around! For billboards, black and chrome are the most
- versatile colors, but red, blue, purple, and white are also effective on
- particular billboards.
-
- Try to break down the power of the billboard ad by answering it, looking
- at
- the space available and the way in which the words and images lend themselves
- to
- addition, alteration or comment. Humor is extremely effective in exposing the
- advertiser's real intentions -- turning the ad's message back on itself. (Be
- sure to avoid spelling mistakes!)
-
- If the offending billboard proves too high to reach, you can either get a
- ladder (which isn't particularly convenient) or build a spray can extension
- rod:
-
- Obtain a broom handle or another solid strong but lightweight wooden
- pole.
- At one end, cut out a wedge, half the width of the pole. Fit a flat metal bar
- to the remaining wood. About one foot from this bar (or the height of your
- spray can), attach a support clamp on which the can will rest. Fit an angle
- bracket on each side of the pole, about 8 inches from the end. The spray can
- should fit between these brackets. Tie a length of plastic coated wire to the
- flat metal bar and feed it through a hole in the support clamp and screw eyes
- attached the length of the pole. This wire, when pulled, will press down the
- nozzle of the spray can and paint will spray out. An optional extra is the
- roll-top of a deodorant bottle, fitted to the support clamp. This will help
- maintain an even distance between the spray can and billboard. You may have
- to
- experiment a bit to get the right measurements to fit a can of spray paint.
- Although these spray paint can extension rods are clumsy to use at first, with
- practice they become very effective.
-
-
- Adios,
-
- _/uan \/aldez
-
- Thanks to : The Killer (For editing this thing)
- Electro Fuzz
- Siva Chandra
-
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