Should I turn my chip-shop window into an anti-capitalist propaganda display?

[twentythreedom]

Will, you can do what the fuck you want, just avoid obscenities.

eg "BOO!! to the bankers and police" will raise awareness in your immediate neighbourhood. Yes, they're inbred and stupid, but if you shout loud enough they will hear.

 

[Will2403]

I think you should get some projection tellys and do a video installation...

dunno if i can afford all that. anyone wanna donate me some gear?

 

[Will2403]

Do the FTP thing with gaffer tape, then when they come along and complain, tell them to fack off and get a warrant, then alter the "fuck the police" to say "PC Your Mum"

just build some riot dioramas

i have this weird room which is like 1metre by 1metre, thats where the smaller of the two windows looks into, so i could make a totally fucking sweet diorama, but its loads of effort and i couldn't even make a tracy island, so i'd have to hire artists and installation designers etc etc.

i need connections and hookups pls!

 

[Will2403]

Will, you can do what the fuck you want, just avoid obscenities.

eg "BOO!! to the bankers and police" will raise awareness in your immediate neighbourhood. Yes, they're inbred and stupid, but if you shout loud enough they will hear.

how do you write fuck the police whilst avoiding obscenities?

 

[Will2403]

plus i'm not sure if i want all this attention what with having hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of cannibis plants growing under my floorboards

i sort of feel like i have already said too much

 

[Will2403]

To begin with, use gaffer tape to write "fuck the police" on your windows. From the inside, back to front. Then POSTFU please mate.

if i wrote fuck the police but so it shows up the wrong way from the outside, it might draw more attention as people try to work out what it says, plus it insulates me from getting done for obscenity violations.

 

[pogofish]

has he got foto's of his window?

can you get arrested for writing fuck the police on your window?

what happened to freedom of speech???

surely the filth would let me to do this, whilst hiring some big beefy boys to chuck me in the river or summat?

I don't and the only photo I know of his window online is on a local fash site - they picketed his place once, so there is no way I'd link it! Easy enough to find on Google tho.

He's had all sort of stuff up there over the years.

 

[stuff_it]

dunno if i can afford all that. anyone wanna donate me some gear?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_n...ction+t&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313
The are generally under £100 used for those rear projection ones.

 

[Random]

Will, if you do display something, my advice is don't make it lots of pictures, and especially not detailed information with lots of text, that'll just scream "oddball politico" and almost no one will bother to read it all. Just put one big funny and slightly provocative slogan, in large letters, that'll make people have a laugh and also think 'nice one', or 'bastard commie'.

 

[bi0boy]

The word "fuck" would clearly cause passing persons to feel alarmed and distressed, so you could get upt o six months under the Public Order Act

 

[smokedout]

Will, if you do display something, my advice is don't make it lots of pictures, and especially not detailed information with lots of text, that'll just scream "oddball politico" and almost no one will bother to read it all. Just put one big funny and slightly provocative slogan, in large letters, that'll make people have a laugh and also think 'nice one', or 'bastard commie'.

I disagree. I think it needs lots of text to hold people's interest. perhaps you could copy out some of your posts from here Will, hand written would be best to give it the personal touch and in different coloured ink to make it really stand out.

 

[Will2403]

I think I will make the main focus a big banner which says:

BRITISH PARTY POLITICS:
NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE

THE ILLUSION OF CHOICE
(with that pic of the cow going into the slaughterhouse)

Then have some revolutionary and motivational quotes and slogans.

 

[fenrisx]

1) Your place is a dump
2) You're either a filthy hippy or a communist

GET A JOB, PINKO!

 

[Will2403]

:O its nice thanks just had a fresh respray as well. there's brand new paint on those window frames!

i went for a job interview yesterday actually. wore my barca shirt and bobble hat n shorts. they said they'd call me in two weeks to let me know! fingers crossed!

 

[Kizmet]

Cameron's had his chips... now you try ours!

Fish ing for an alternative to capitalism?

Pickled Cleggs?

Save the world, save the Whales, save a loy?

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Will2numbers, it must have cost you a fortune to replace the old windows with the bulletproof glass that you obviously have fitted in preparation for this socio-political campaign that you seek ideas for. I guess you have something worth stealing as well, judging from the burglar alarm.

Get some metal doors with ultra strong locks. Have powerful electromagnets built into them so that when the police come with their giant metal battering ram it just sticks to the iron door and cannot be brought back again to make subsequent blows. A video camera to record the effect would be very YouTubable.

 

[Corax]

Stick a red light in the window and a price list, then once you've lured the punters in deliver a three hour powerpoint presentation on the objectification of women and gender politics.

 

[pianissimo]

Your front door is open.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Stick a red light in the window and a price list, then once you've lured the punters in deliver a three hour powerpoint presentation on the objectification of women and gender politics.

Then finish off with a "happy ending".

 

[Will2403]

Can't afford any reinforcements and the glass is only a thin single pane. Gets well cold in winter

The alarm works well and is definitely not just a box stuck on the wall, also I have £50k contents insurance so I'd be quids in should this misadventure result in a burglary

 

[Will2403]

Your front door is open.

 

[stuff_it]

Your front door is open.

I can see it now in 2 ft letters.... "your front door is open"

It would be funny and thought provoking....

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Can't afford any reinforcements and the glass is only a thin single pane. Gets well cold in winter

The alarm works well and is definitely not just a box stuck on the wall, also I have £50k contents insurance so I'd be quids in should this misadventure result in a burglary

In that case don't do anything to draw attention to your very fragile glass house. Putting up provocative political notices could turn out to be the same as throwing stones. If I were you I would turn the house back into the chip shop that you imply that is once was. Lots of money in chips, and not only the ones in a casino.

 

[Will2403]

there's already two chip shops in town and i'm not allowed to run a business from here under the rules of my tenancy.

 

[jakethesnake]

Perhaps you could offer it up as a community display / notice board... you'd retain editorial control, obvs

 

[Teepee]

you might need this

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

 

[claphamboy]

I don't and the only photo I know of his window online is on a local fash site - they picketed his place once, so there is no way I'd link it! Easy enough to find on Google tho.

He's had all sort of stuff up there over the years.

OMFG, I can't believe even the knuckle-draggers from the National Front could take Peter Dow serious enough to picket.



Fucking idiots, didn't they think of putting the word 'vote' at the top of the flag? National Vote Front makes no sense at all.

* this image is uploaded, not linked, as a public service - no one should ever do a google image search for "Peter Dow", it's scary, very scary.

 

[stuff_it]

You should do it but just make stuff that's funny and thought provoking rather than outright 'I am an anarchist, brick my house' stuff.

Stuff like:



If you are just brightening up people's day you should be fine.

Also get some of that cling film stuff that you put up with a hairdryer to keep the heat in!

 

[where to]

this is an awful idea.

 

[Corax]

You could turn it into an art installation. Or even better, you could start collecting china cats, and display them in it. Or wizards and dragons holding a cut crystal orb. Or swarkovski turtles.

More seriously, I'm sure you could find something creative and worthwhile to do with it that won't make you a target. For instance, you could offer it as an opportunity for young local artists to display their work, and pick the ones that you think show the most talent.