AT&T Works In More Places....

For some real-world commentary on the recent telecommunications company/FISA brouhaha, see the work of the Billboard Liberation Front on a San Francisco AT & T billboard yesterday.

For more sober and detailed commentary on this matter see, to begin with, Julian Sanchez's "Time for Democrats to Lead on FISA" from December.

Comments

sv | February 28, 2008, 1:57pm | #

omg thats like, so punk

Brian Doherty | February 28, 2008, 2:05pm | #

and sv's snideness is so new wave...a totally different head...totally....

the innominate one | February 28, 2008, 2:08pm | #

that is awesome! very Fight Club. (I mean that as a compliment.)

joe | February 28, 2008, 2:11pm | #

Wow, is that Square Pegs reference?

We're not worthy! We're not worthy!

sv | February 28, 2008, 2:22pm | #

touche

sv | February 28, 2008, 2:43pm | #

It IS pretty punk :-)

rdc | February 28, 2008, 3:13pm | #

Someone scribbled in "spies on you" over "works" on a similar poster at the 96st C stop here in NYC. Always gave me a grin when I rolled by it on the way into work.

Anonymoose. | February 28, 2008, 3:25pm | #

So now we're for the defacement of private property? And here I thought we were libertarians.

Citizen Nothing | February 28, 2008, 3:29pm | #

Maybe instead of cosmos vs. paleos, the divide is between those with a sense of humor and those without.

J sub D | February 28, 2008, 3:30pm | #

Normally I lobby for grafitti "artists" and other vandals to be publicly flogged in the town square. Since I try to be morally and intellectually consistent, I have to support punishment for these vandals like every other propert defacer.

I can still smile, nod my head and admire their work though.

Citizen Nothing | February 28, 2008, 3:42pm | #

J sub, I think that puts you in the guffawtarian camp.

R C Dean | February 28, 2008, 3:53pm | #

So now we're for the defacement of private property?

Just think of that poster as an attractive nuisance.

TrickyVic | February 28, 2008, 4:44pm | #

Billboards cause distracted driving and should be banned. ;-)

Actually, with all the distracted driving rhetoric, I'm suprised billboards haven't been attacked yet.

TrickyVic | February 28, 2008, 4:46pm | #

Attractive nuisance? Or inconvenient truth?

Pottsy | February 28, 2008, 9:12pm | #

So now we're for the defacement of private property? And here I thought we were libertarians.

You could make the argument that the initiation of force in this instance was actually on the part of the advertiser elbowing its unwelcomed ass into your head in the first place. Billboards are meatspace spam. You make the choice to turn on the idiot box, radio, or to log on - outdoor advertising assaults you just for leaving the house. I'm not saying I necessarily agree with that argument... but you could make it.

Pottsy | February 28, 2008, 9:19pm | #

J Sub, I'm curious if you make the distinction though, between graffiti that appears on private property and work that appears on public property such as subway cars...

The Wine Commonsewer | February 29, 2008, 1:46am | #

Great stuff. And speaking of Ft Mead, my cousins used to scavenge the firing range of Ft Mead back in the day. Made themselves some bucks too.

Simon & Garfunkel | February 29, 2008, 1:53am | #

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.

The Wine Commonsewer | February 29, 2008, 1:56am | #

I think Graffiti and Littering deserve the death penalty. But that doesn't mean that sometimes it isn't art.

There is this one place in San Francisco where the street car line goes into a tunnel.......

The Wine Commonsewer | February 29, 2008, 1:58am | #

I'm suprised billboards haven't been attacked yet.

Lady Bird Johnson

Ralph Malph | February 29, 2008, 8:20am | #

Pottsy-

J Sub, I'm curious if you make the distinction though, between graffiti that appears on private property and work that appears on public property such as subway cars...

Nope!

The graffiti artist owns neither of the "properties" being "defaced"... thus, he is merely "vermin" waiting to be killed in either circumstance.