London advertising run
So my friends are off to london next week (won't post exact date here) and have a load of stickers with the &T URL scrawled on. Anyone got any requests for where to put them? On a famous landmark? Pub toilet? Underground train etc.
Pics will try to be delivered. Bit dodgy taking photos round London on things like trains etc.
Also, general London discussion thread if anyone's been there.
Pics will try to be delivered. Bit dodgy taking photos round London on things like trains etc.
Also, general London discussion thread if anyone's been there.
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Other than that, hit all the famous landmarks you can think of, as well as some buildings of interest such as news stations, TV stations, trains, the side of police cars, pretty much everywhere.
How many stickers have you got?
EDIT: I was in London the other week, I think Aldgate was actually closed. Try westminster instead, that place has a load of big windows and stuff.
Will certainly get contacts to do bridges and other bits. They have about 20 stickers, as well as wheatpaste. Stickers are preferred as you don't get messy though.
Time to start scrawling some more. Got some big stickers so can fit 4 or so URLs onto 1 and then cut into 4.
Crowd with IQ above 90: Various campuses across London. See below1.
Gay buttsex (seriously): Old Compton street.
General: London underground stations, especially Oxford Circus, Shepherd's Bush (central line), King's Cross, Hammersmith, Waterloo, Charing Cross, Liverpool Street and Piccadilly Circus. Just don't travel around in sunglasses and a keffiyeh, lest you look like a terrorist and get shot by SO19, or, more likely, look like a pseudointellectual-leftist-middle-class-Guardian-reading-homosexual-prick out on a daytrip, spending taxpayers' money that should otherwise strictly speaking be used to fund your worthless arts degree. Ahem. Excuse me... got a little carried away with the moment there.
I trust the rest to your judgement.
1) London School of Economics (LSE), specifically Houghton Street.
2) University College London.
3) University of Westminster, the Regent's Street campus has lots of 'passing trade', although obviously not necessarily Westminster students.
There are other campuses across London but I don't know how far you're prepared to travel/roam.
Yes, which is why I put the .info URL on it :facepalm:
Ps. I'd love to do a few A4 wheatpaste pieces. Will take some just in case. It's just finding a quiet sidestreet.
Pity you don't live in London. If you did then pasting early in the morning, on otherwise busy streets, would be an option.
How about Banksy-style graffiti stencils?
You make a good point; they're are few things a Londoner has look at during their daily commute. I suspect a vast amount of visual information gets lost in the noise of the neural datastream to the point where it never crosses the concious threshold. Feck, it doesn't take much for the human brain to miss the hilariously obvious. Sticking an A4 poster on a random wall, however busy the street or station, is unlikely to achieve much in terms of people remembering the information. One way around this is to place those stickers where a person expects to see something else. For example the oyster card scanning pads on automated underground barriers or the oyster scanners on buses. Unexpected deviation from what is visually expected is far more likely to imprint information in the individual's memory. Not to mention that far more people will by default directly look at that information if it's placed on or very near a scanner that has to be used before you can move beyond it.
Have to point out that irrespective of where a sticker or poster is placed it will be removed. The more public/high traffic the place the more likely this will happen quickly. I think what is therefore required is a sustained advertisment campaign or, as I suggested re: graffiti stencils, using a medium that results in the message being more difficult to remove.
The same can't be said for the ones I slapped up in the public toilets.
And I miss living in London. Early morning run would have been great :cool:
Doesn't say anywhere that I put them up :hai:
Try some high traffic areas, westminster bridge is allways busy with a nice underpass on the other side from parlement.
Down the road from the waterloo station taxi rank is a nice spot with pleanty of stickers allready up.
Or do a banksy and hit the tate.
I was sent the photos but there's something about, especially after the whole Zoklet episode, that makes me very distrusting of the 'net.
Assuming a lack of EXIF data, isn't that a little bit paranoid, even for you?
As the good Dr rocker implies, I can't see wheatpasting getting you woken in the middle of the night to the sounds of your door being kicked down by a state snatch-squad. Even the British police farce1 have better things to do with their time than chase down small-time flyposters and sticker merchants off the back of a few obscure photographs. The Zoklet shenanigans allegedly caused $$$ of commercial 'damage' directly traceable to one individual.
Huge difference in scenarios.
1) No typo.
Better to stay safe, I'd say.
He hasn't admitted to any crime, nor do those photographs establish that he committed one. They can't even be used to prove that he knows for certain who did put them up. In terms of evidence of anyone's guilt they are next to worthless.
I'll respect his position, nonetheless.
Posting pictures is not going to do any harm - he has already said he was going to do it, the stickers and posters are up so if the police were bothered they would come to this site and find this thread anyway.
The pictures would do nothing to get him caught that has not already been done. On top of that, although he said he was going to, taking pictures of the end result does not mean shit - anyone could have put the stickers and posters up.
Here they are then
A bit of this...
A bit of that...
Not saying how many there are, but here is a taster.
I like that one - if my money was on any one of them to bring people in, it would be that one.
Camden.
There were plenty put round but my mates aren't the sort to hang around on a busy road in a tourist-y part of London on a weekend taking a photo of their handiwork
Also this is in Camden/Chalk Farm area. "$15 little man, put that shit in my hand!"
Old Compton Street and surrounding areas.
General Underground/Trains.
For the lulz.
Downing St.
Parliament.
The tamper-proof things used for the Royal Wedding so people can't plant bombs in small, openable things.
Most Tourists don't actually go into the red phone boxes. They should.
*gulp*
For Dfg.
Western advertising
Kings Cross area.
Cosplay fags.
Overall, 9 of the A4 posters were put up and around 40 stickers of various sizes and designs were. I'd call that a success if it gets us more users.
Looks like you were walking away from Trafalgar Square. I hope you stuck one on Nelson. On second thoughts bugger that, you'll have this place flooded by a thousand spotty french teenagers asking 'wat iz zis totzee plaice?'.
This one is fucking brilliant. You've cornered our target market perfectly.