A new law banning all billboards, posters, and advertisements took effect at the beginning of 2007 in Sao Paulo, Brazil in an effort to clean up the urban environment. It has, of course, made a drastic impact on the cityscape. Makes me wonder what some of America's large cities would look like without ads. Perhaps it may stimulate the creation of more public art. Check out the pictures by photographer Tony de Marcom who documented the tearing down process at Ping Mag and de Marco's Flikr site "Sao Paulo No Logo."
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I do like ads, but not shouting ads. And in São Paulo because of their sizes and places they were shouting out loud at everyone´s eyes. The city still has ads but also others urban landscapes.
Posted by: Bartira | Monday, September 03, 2007 at 08:48 PM
I can't say that I know for sure what the positives and negatives of a non-advertising world would be, but for the love of God, I would like to find out.
Imagine a culture not manipulated into believing that the rat race (on a treadmill) was a necessity. Imagine a culture where kids didn't start developing desires for all sorts of shit from the age of five based on the advertising they see (created by advertisers engaging in "statutory theft" by manipulating the young to follow the advertiser's whim). Imagine a culture where we realized that we ALREADY have all that we need. We have food, shelter and clothing -- and maybe, just maybe, we have time to enjoy ourselves with family, with friends, with games, with intellectual pursuits, with creative social games, with reading, writing, speaking and debating. Imagine a world where we were not CONSTANTLY under stress to be slaves to some rich guy so that we can "get by". Imagine a world...
mnuez
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P.S. If I'm not mistaken, any caveman magically transported to our world of plenty would be quite pleased with our cheap food, water and shelter and probably WOULD NOT feel the need to spend his every day slaving for others so that he could afford some more junk.
http://mnuez.blogspot.com/2007/09/simple-life-vs-cavemans-life.html
Posted by: mnuez | Tuesday, September 04, 2007 at 03:17 AM