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Monthly Archives: July 2009
3 ton sign falls onto Broadway, N.Y. (1912)
Just found this amazing image while doing some research. Another reason why the Department of Buildings regulates billboards. Flickr Photo Download: 3 Ton Electric Sign Blown into Brdway, N.Y. (LOC). Another angle.

Green Sleeves – Illegal ads turned planters on Torontoist
It’s 6 a.m. in Kensington Market on a Sunday morning, with the sun out but only barely, and Eric Cheung and Sean Martindale are busy planting flowers. At College and Augusta, on the two large posterboards on the west wall of Sam’s, they cut the outlines of large triangles deep into the thick layers of [...]