Gramsci
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You live in central Brixton?
A tree grows from the windows on Electric Avenue, Brixton
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You live in central Brixton?
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
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It just seems to me that they don't punish wrongdoing but those who go to them are hit with unnecessary obstacles.
I used to live on Hillside Road in SW2. At the bottom of Cricklade Rd there's access to garages which includes a semi circular patch of grass behind a hedge. Nightly, people would come to let their dog shit, dump building and domestic waste, stop off for a piss. There was even criminals stashing stuff there. A neighbour offered to pay to cut the hedge to half height to give the bastards no cover and Lambeth refused, saying that it would be out of keeping with "the estate".
So while I am glad you can't paint these buildings pink and put manky windows in, it seems a bit like Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burns. A tree will undermine the structure of the building soon enough!
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Great to hear they are trying to sort it out - shame we have to use public money cos the owners don't give a shit. Maybe the council could CPO them?
WouldBe
Dislicksick
It wants rescuing quick before someone puts a tree preservation order on it.
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
I heard that the developers got permission for it as part of their planning app on those buildings. I'm sure it will help their profit margin
The woman in the blue dress is the only nice thing in that photograph. Beautifully turned out
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Look what they did with Leyton High Road (as usual the Mail has the best pics): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-new-look-thats-Notting-Hill-EastEnders.html
Only took £500k
Only took £500k
It's hideous but I realise that there is a double standard when I look fondly at ghost signs on brick for Hovis bread or Bryant and May matches.
editor
hiraethified
They're rarely that size or that garish, and at least they were for affordable goods.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Surely something similar in terms of homogenisation will be part of the town centre masterplan or whatever it is they are up to
The Granada cars sign, pictured by the editor, is a shocker
They've just done the same to half a dozen shops opposite Blackhorse Road tube station.
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
I quite like it (I think it's the colours ), although I'll like it a lot more when the frontage is renovated and on show.
), although I'll like it a lot more when the frontage is renovated and on show.
True. I still think it's an interesting double standard. I love the Oxo tower but if Mmmm Danone tried the same stunt today, I'd consider it an outrage.
It's as if time blunts naked commercialism.
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hiraethified
Most people aren't even aware that the Oxo tower advertises Oxo and I think it has architectural merit.
I don't think anyone's going to have any trouble working out what this vast sheet of shiny plastic is advertising and, again, most of the older advertising wasn't for luxury goods.
*edit to add: that's not to say that there wasn't some awful advertising in the past, but it's rare to see stuff as big and as garish as this and for 'comparable' goods.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Not really, as most of the painted-on advertising was for domestic staples with longevity (Eucryl Tooth Powder, Colemans' Mustard etc), not for non-essentials like iPhones. Part of the fondness comes from the products being something you can identify with, and probably, your parents' and grandparents' generations could identify with.
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
You might not like that sort of thing now, but perhaps in 100 years people will look back on the technological frivolousness of this era with nostalgia. I imagine there were plenty of Brixtonites bitching about the Bovril sign the day it went up
I think there was more of a naivety to advertising back when those painted on bricks went up. Not like the cynical psychological hooks that ad men use now.
T & P
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Some people might argue that for much of the new demographic of Brixton, iPhones are essential items
I have never owned an iphone, although I'm not sure if having a Windows Phone puts me in a morally superior position. If you want a smart phone, you have to dance with one devil or another.Some people might argue that for much of the new demographic of Brixton, iPhones are essential items
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hiraethified
I'm pretty sure that there wont be many people at all expressing any kind of opinion in 100 years time about the garish corporate advert that briefly covered an iconic Brixton building.
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
I don't literally mean that specific advert, but modern adverts of that type in general which everyone here seems to despise
Tricky Skills
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Marketing turns everything into shite. Apart from Bovril.
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hiraethified
Where has anyone said that they despise all 'modern adverts of that type in general'? I don't have a strong opinion about billboards in general, but I have an opinion about them when they've turned an iconic building in the centre of town into a tacky advertising hoarding.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I'd go along with that. While the Victorians were aware of the effect of, for example, putting a pretty female face in an ad, or the power in advertising food near food outlets, they weren't anywhere near as slick or as cynical as the advertising game is in the modern era.
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