I too call it Taco Hell
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."
-Banksy
I mean I sort of knew what this guy was about but like damn that is a based statement
Advertising is the graffiti of the rich.
I feel like such an idiot for saying this, but I’ve never thought of ads as environmental vandalism. But that’s exactly what they are.
In Spain we have an roadside advertising for the Brandy de Jerez made by the Osborne Group, declared “cultural and artistic heritage of the people of Spain.”, the Osborne bull, which you can find everywhere in Spain
Vermont still have the roadside ads banned?
Advertising is one of the most prolific environmental pollutants of economic activity, and needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.
needs an edit where the cop is putting up hate symbols
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
- Banksy
Nice
Love this. Fuckin A. Thanks for posting
Who up smoking they morebarfo RN
Advertising is the graffiti of the rich. The poor get fined for tagging a wall, while corporations are paid to deface our entire visual landscape. It’s the same act of vandalism, just with a budget that buys legitimacy.
Well the cops job is to enforce the power and “property rights” of the advertisers while making sure they remain in control.
it is kind of silly that cops care about graffiti, but not any of the other eye-sores that take up the night sky
Cops dont care about anything other then flexing some authority
I was in court today for a crime I didn’t commit. The way the cops talked amongst themselves was so flippant and nonchalant. There’s like this identifiable psychopathic linguistic pattern. It sounds very familiar and reminded me of situations where I’ve dealt with bad people who were actually criminals. Very antisocial and ego driven. They’re mostly bullies who get off on using their legal authority to hurt people. Case got dismissed and I gave them the bird on the way out, it felt great.
That’s the point of the comic.
When I grow up, I want to be a skeleton cowboy.
Are you a glass half full, or a glass half empty kind of person. 'Cause half of your dream is almost certainly going to happen.
I’m already a cowboy skeleton, just with a few extra layers.
I drank the first half, you can drink the rest.
- Barenaked Ladies
Go ahead and start smoking them then I suppose.
They call that brand cowboy killers for a reason.
“Just Do It”
I didn’t crop it but its from this https://sidewalkbubblegum.com/aha-graffiti/
I appreciate the sentiment and it feels relevant to my old brain but I realize it might as well be ancient. It’s the same comic now with different proper nouns. Are we doomed?
yeah, probably
