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Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
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Re: Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
#332Anytime I hear about outdoor advertising I think of a quote I saw in the book Civilized to Death. A long time ago man saw Times Square and sat in silence. A few people asked him what he thought. He said this would be beautiful if I couldn't read.
The Times square was the first place I visited in the US, Imagine a bright TV on four walls in a room playing unskippable YouTube ads. That was my feeling, I have no idea why people go crazy about watching ads. To each their own.
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#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Contrariwise to your assumption I was not trying to bring a flamewar up, even if feeling the need to point that out.
With that in mind, your silence towards the potential nationalist for doing something that _also_ goes against the spirit of HN* is rather... curious.
*bringing up what's at the very least off-topic trivia (i.e. noise, or "fluff" as Graham would call it).
Re: Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
#334Anytime I hear about outdoor advertising I think of a quote I saw in the book Civilized to Death. A long time ago man saw Times Square and sat in silence. A few people asked him what he thought. He said this would be beautiful if I couldn't read.
I went there as a kid from France and it was magical. Remember going to the Coca Cola store and buying a bunch of merch.
Re: Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
#335As an American moving to SP, this was one of the most striking things when I first arrived by air. It's buildings, as far as the eye can see, and it looks different somehow: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F... Then you realize later that it's all architecture, free of advertising. Sadly, it's not completely clean - on the way from GRU there's still a decent amount of high-standing billboar…
Because GRU is in Guarulhos, a neighbouring city
Re: Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
#336Re: Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Can you elaborate on this? I've always thought a mural was just a type of graffiti? According to Wikipedia it’s the opposite: a graffiti is a type of mural [1]. However at least in French and in Italian a graffiti is an inscription on a wall, often done as vandalism, while a mural(e) is more like a fresco which often takes the full wall. As a French, for me this [2] is a mural and this [3] is a graffiti. [1]: https…
Is graffiti always text? I know it's common but I didn't realise it was a rule. What about something like this https://maps.app.goo.gl/oCbe2DZW1vqyXJ2h9?g_st=ic
This thread is showing how words have different meanings in different places. In my slice of the world, graffiti is not limited to text. A tag is though.
Re: Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Contrariwise to your assumption I was not trying to bring a flamewar up, even if feeling the need to point that out. With that in mind, your silence towards the potential nationalist for doing something that _also_ goes against the spirit of HN* is rather... curious. *bringing up what's at the very least off-topic trivia (i.e. noise, or "fluff" as Graham would call it).
People often feel like the mods are singling them out unfairly, but most often we just didn't see the other side. We can't read everything.
If there's another comment that you feel should have been moderated but wasn't, I'd be happy to take a look, but I'd need a link.
Re: Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
#339Canberra, Australia (the capital) also has banned outdoor advertising since the 1930s (except near the airport): https://www.abc.net.au/canberra/programs/breakfast/should-ad...
Canberran here! It’s bloody lovely. You don’t appreciate it until you go somewhere else.
Worth noting that ‘since the 1930s’ ≈ ‘since the city was founded’.
Re: Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
#340This is a great policy for the city but this killed half of Liberdade's soul, because our little Tokyo had to also pull down all our their Japan-evoking signage. See a sample of the neighborhood in the 80s: https://quandoacidade.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/238.jpg
Architecture, Art, Cuisine... whatever is part of the culture, can be utilized to evoke another country. Obviously signage will work, but it's sort of a cheap way to do it.