Begging someone to do a linguistic landscape study of the differences in signs between suburbs and cities. In Pasadena it’s always like “Protect national parks from oligarchs and kleptocracy” and in DTLA it’s always like “Fuck ICE” 😆. Happy Labor Day!
People who went to grad school are incapable of making concise signs…we just wanna use too many damn words!
Also they have done so many horrible things its hard to narrow it down for a sign
Me trying to edit down a minute of Utah Philips’ concert banter down to fit onto a 4x6 linocut. This is why they went with “dump the bosses off your back”, isn’t it?
Some of us have real trouble imagining a text any shorter than 500 words.¹ ¹plus references
I also love when people share regional sign photos because I get to see all those local burns!
Sociologists will have a ball studying this in a few years. If we get through this