Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)

Post by willio58 » Tue, Jul 04, 2023, 7:08 PM UTC

koboll wrote: post #249

bradley13 wrote: post #246

Honestly, this is true of most creative activities. Playing an instrument? Singing? Painting? Drawing? Almost everyone has some sort of creative activity they enjoy. The enjoyment comes in part from the lack of pressure. The activity doesn't have to pay the rent - at most, it's beer money. Perhaps more negatively: expecting to make a living with something that millions do for fun? Hubris. Very few really are that goo…

I think you commented on the wrong link

Post by YetAnotherNick » Tue, Jul 04, 2023, 7:10 PM UTC

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #113

npteljes wrote: post #71

As an individual, I'd welcome no advertisements everywhere. I think ads were abused long enough. It's just a leech on the human life.

That's considered a radical stance, but I +1. Ads should just be banned anywhere in general. They concentrate power to those who already have it, because you can make more ads if you have more money. The local burger joint cannot compete against macdonals on advertising, the local soda against coca cola. It's ugly, eat attention, and interrupt. It creates business models with terrible incentives, which leads to censo…

Post by andybp85 » Tue, Jul 04, 2023, 7:17 PM UTC

alganet wrote: post #37

Some additions: Stores also cannot use their full façade for advertising. Branding colors and details are OK, but logos cannot be too large (don't know the exact rule). The law is picky. Some stores cheat by having a glass façade, and using LEDs inside that glass. Like this: https://imgur.com/a/CLdUD1C Since this law was adopted, there's been an increase in full building graffiti, which is not banned. Now 10 years la…

Post by goodpoint » Tue, Jul 04, 2023, 7:25 PM UTC

dredmorbius wrote: post #224

goodpoint wrote: post #142

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THIS. High saturation colors are loud and tacky. Kyoto look wonderful.

I've applied a desaturation filter to a number of websites. The Register for example: body { /* A little less bloody red, eh? */ filter: saturate(33%); } (Via the Stylus CSS manager extension.) I also browse extensively on an e-ink (monochrome) tablet, and find that the lack of high-saturation colour is very welcome. I suspect that even colour-based e-ink displays, given their muted pastel palette, might also be an i…

Post by dredmorbius » Tue, Jul 04, 2023, 7:29 PM UTC

goodpoint wrote: post #257

dredmorbius wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've applied a desaturation filter to a number of websites. The Register for example: body { /* A little less bloody red, eh? */ filter: saturate(33%); } (Via the Stylus CSS manager extension.) I also browse extensively on an e-ink (monochrome) tablet, and find that the lack of high-saturation colour is very welcome. I suspect that even colour-based e-ink displays, given their muted pastel palette, might also be an i…

Interesting. Stylish looks like malware tho.