Tuesday, August 08, 2006

crime prevention billboards: aesthetic discipline?















The billboard at the Como-Snelling intersection has changed now. The "life or meth" billboard has finished its run, it seems (see my first post on the blog about that poster). Now we have a billboard warning people to lock their cars as theft prevention. It's interesting: Before I started the blog the other week I hadn't noticed this emphasis on crime prevention. I wonder whether the space is rented by the police or a crime prevention organization? If so, this raises the subject of how billboards are placed/used strategically as a form of aesthetic discipline. Then again, perhaps it's coincidence and the billboard is available to companies too (I'm sure I remember seeing billboards advertising products up there at some point). If anyone has insights, I'd be interested to hear them. And, aren't most of these owned by Viacom?

2 Comments:

Blogger . said...

yep, billboards are interesting things for sure. I'm glad you like the photos. Cheers Lori,
nn.

8/8/06, 11:03 PM  
Blogger phlegmfatale said...

It's funny you mention the aesthetics of it all, because I was going to say aesthetically, all that visual clutter is a bit of a crime in itself!

8/14/06, 5:31 PM  

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