Last year L.A.-based artist
Stephen Glassman, who has apparently been making bamboo art installations for
two decades, made a small-scale art project called Urban Air that involved a
miniature billboard-bamboo setup. After it got some attention, leading billboard-maker
Summit Media agreed to donate billboards in busy areas of Los Angeles for the
first prototype.
It works by removing the
advertisement-ready facade and retrofitting a billboard’s metal husk to contain
planters, live bamboo and a watering system. The installation includes
environmental sensors and is connected to wifi.
A new Kickstarter
project [love the kickstarter connection, I may investigate] is trying to raise
$100,000 to hire all the electrical and structural engineers needed to build
it. The goal is a bamboo billboard kit that could be installed anywhere.
Imagine if, instead of
advertisements screaming about taxes and abortion and Obamacare, we were bathed in
soothing placards of calm. Americans are exposed to 5,000
advertisements a day, as Treehugger points out--so this sounds
like a welcome reprieve. You can learn more about the project here.
Now that is much more complicated than my window veggies and herbs. LOL. makes me so dumb! I wrecked my car rubber-necking to read a provocative advertisement. So, I'm not a fan of billboards
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ReplyDeleteI do like some bill boards, as we travel a lot, some are very welcome. One of the things that hit me once in Florida was an over pass on I-75 above Ocala. We went under and I looked in my rear view mirror, "Hey that over pass had trees on it!" I learned later it was a wild-life passage, that was kinda neat.
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