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  • From: "James Hepler" <hepstyle AT gmail.com>
  • To: "RTP-area local music and culture" <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: sharing the space
  • Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:24:06 -0500

Torches and pitchforks and boxes of poo.

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Bryon Settle <ployntabs AT embarqmail.com>wrote:

> If they won't respond to a civil request then what happens next? Do we
> start a campaign to rip all of their posters down and throw them in the
> street? Maybe The Poster Guys could mark their posters so we don't take
> their posters down. Maybe a campaign to let local advertisers know that
> this company's efforts will no longer be tolerated.
>
> -bryon
>
> clarqoline AT gmail.com wrote:
> > If you're reading this you probably have enough experience and good
> > sense to follow basic rules of etiquette and protocol when it comes to
> > the way you post flyers and posters for events - don't post over
> > things that haven't happened yet, don't post too many in on one kiosk,
> > pole, etc., don't put huge posters in spots where they will monopolize
> > the space available, etc. Most of the folks involved in the music
> > community in this area are very courteous and have been that way as
> > long as I've lived here, but lately there have been groups in the
> > wider community coming along and flyering with no regard for anyone
> > else's stuff. It's bad enough lately that when there is a phone
> > number I've been calling these people and politely telling them they
> > are out of line and that this brings on a lot of ill will from the
> > music and art community at large, which it certainly does.
> > I've found that a lot of the time it is a result of one of a
> > couple things. The first is the band or group with upcoming event
> > that gives flyers to a bunch of their friends to put up and they are
> > excited and they get overzealous and go nuts with the staple gun.
> > This is understandable and doesn't happen very often and when it does
> > the band or group is usually bummed that their friends are postering
> > over other peoples stuff and it is easily remedied. The second is
> > the group that pays a company or uses interns or volunteers to post
> > the flyers (obviously I'm not talking about the famous "The Poster
> > Guys" here, they're awesome). A lot of the time they just want to
> > get it done as fast as possible so you'll find these flyers posted
> > smack dab in the middle of a kiosk over top of whatever is there.
> > These folks will often overdo it with the number on a kiosk as well,
> > so you'll sometimes see eight or ten huge highlighter-pen-yellow
> > posters for "Jobs to Save the Environment" on one kiosk side. By
> > far, the people that do "Save the Environment" and did "Help Elect
> > Obama" and sometimes "Jobs for Justice" are the worst. I don't
> > think the companies who hire them live in town, they must not have any
> > idea how horrible those people are. I have to think Mr.Obama or
> > Move.On.org would be upset if they knew this was going on. They're
> > a pollution of the visual environment most everywhere you go in Chapel
> > Hill and Carrboro. I actually went in person to their office above
> > CD Alley to try to talk sense to them and they were total assholes,
> > completely dismissive. They told me they've found they make the
> > most money fundraising by putting up the posters in exactly the manner
> > they do it, and they made it clear they would not consider posting
> > them in a way that was considerate of others and shared the space.
> > The lady actually snickered at me, like she got off on the idea that
> > they would continue to dominate the public space, tough shit
> > kid!
> > I'm obviously fired up about this. I'm usually a pretty easy going
> > guy, but this really gets my goat. When I was downtown today and
> > saw the nice silkscreened poster for the Trekky Records MS benefit
> > covered over by some dumb shit posted in a careless way it just set me
> > off. I'd love to hear any ideas you might have.
> > -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors alt.music.chapel-hill --
> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
> >
> >
> >
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