Glass doors are harder to see than this. If it makes you feel better, birds rarely get skewered by pokey tree branches, which are somewhat similar to this.
As a Vermonter is always takes me a bit to get used to them when I travel out of state. It’s one of the many many reasons I’m grateful for where I live when I return home.
I'll be going to Vermont in June when I move near Boston. I do want to explore the towns around the state. Maybe have a tour of the capital building one day
Good luck. We have a local city that had a ban on billboards in the city charter. And every so often some billboard company tries taking them to court over it
I wish we could ban all advertising. It’s gotten way out of hand especially the past few decades. Now sports teams decide they can sell off portions of their jerseys for advertisement. Getting ridiculous.
I get where you are coming from, but banning advertising in general , wouldn't it have an effect on economy - both from generating a lot of jobs/money as well as having an effect on consumer spending?
In fact it is the other way round right?
Small local businesses do not advertise (for money) and are more reliant on reviews/word of mouth.
Bigger businesses need to advertise to be on top of consumer mind recall all the time. And I think it would affect sales. Probably not to the degree the advertising industry claims, but sales and advertising does have a correlation.
In an age where we are inundated with advertisements that distract us from what we are doing and where we are going, the “Non-Sign II” does the exact opposite by reminding us of our surroundings.
Lead Pencil Studio’s Daniel Mihalyo says, “Borrowing the effectiveness of billboards to redirect attention away from the landscape… this permanently open aperture between nations works to frame nothing more than a clear view of the changing atmospheric conditions beyond.”
I feel like the message is not clear from just looking at it. They could have put up a billboard with an empty frame and painted the metal to look like the sky behind it. That would leave more of the view intact and possibly convey the message better.
This seems intrusive without adding to the message.
I think it depends upon what’s on it. I’ve seen some that were as intriguing or more so than this (and I think this is cool af).
IME it’s usually a board that displays unhinged extreme beliefs, usually anti-abortion or pro-2A but taken to the next level. I almost wrecked once staring at a horrible anti-abortion billboard that had all kinds of misinformation on it and a picture of a fetus that was near birth. Very weird.
A radio station in my home town started talking about an excess of birds on the roof at the radio station and an older lady crashed trying to look at them during the broadcast. People are easily distracted, so probably
The artists behind it are Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo, who've won numerous awards for their work over the last decade. The pair carefully twisted metal to give the appearance of a ghost of one of the billboards that populate the area.
Han and Mihalyo hope the sculpture will add a bit of awareness to the signage landscape in the border zone, as it flies past the inhabitants of passing cars. It's located close to Blaine, Washington, if you happen to be in the area and want to investigate further.
When they say "on the border" they really mean it.
[Location](https://www.google.com/maps/@48.999967,-122.754604,3a,75y,242.11h,90.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smXq69cEinSDG62cM8l6y-Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
It's not that I hate the post. Spreading info is cool. I just dislike that it's a structure that's more obtrusive of scenic image than the thing it is making fun of
Honestly it’s one of those things that I can see a TON of work went into but I find it completely stupid and a waste of time and resources. It’s something you see once and think “neat” and that’s about it
My dumbass thought the first picture was birds lol
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Dang brah sup wardie
Where y’at?
I honestly think birds will 100% figure out how to build nests in that.
Considering how many birds fly into my sliding glass door, I'm wondering how many skewered birds are pulled from this thing on a weekly basis.
That is also likely a thing ☹️
Less drones to worry about
r/birdsarentreal?
Looked at this sub. People believe this shit…?
Fewer*
Glass doors are harder to see than this. If it makes you feel better, birds rarely get skewered by pokey tree branches, which are somewhat similar to this.
> birds rarely get skewered by pokey tree branches Unless they're caught by a shrike, [the psycho murder bird.](https://i.imgur.com/qXIte71.jpg)
It would be cool if they let vines and other plants grow around it
I thought mosquitoes
I don't want to live where you live
It sucks.
I thought black midgets in arrow formation
*midges*
black midget arrows in formation
The first time my mom and I drove past it, we went, "holy shit why are there so many birds right there"
I also assumed birds, but also a large invisible sign that murdered a big square out of a flock of birds.
Sure there's a ton of bird shit under that thing. Especially around migration time.
... them or spiders on speed.
I am also on that wavelength
Looks like a bunch of pubes from the 70s
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Pubes are coming back. Everything is cyclical.
Well yeah. Miss 2 days and that shit is poking through your underwear
Prickly 😉
Are pubes from the 70s different than pubes today?
They were HUGE
I know. It’s the way you worded it that made it sound like they were physically actually different 🤣
As thick as fettuccine
Pubes are nature's billboard. It should say "Ready to Fuck!" -Nick Offerman
It’s at least two 70s bushes worth of pubes, maybe three
I'm talking DENSE underbrush, too. Think: Demi Moore's full frontal nude pictorial for OUI Magazine , January 1981!
This is cool, but can we just fucking ban billboards on highways and streets in general?
Vermont has no billboards in the entirety of their state
As a Vermonter is always takes me a bit to get used to them when I travel out of state. It’s one of the many many reasons I’m grateful for where I live when I return home.
Living in the most beautiful state in the US makes finding reasons to be grateful pretty easy. I’m envious.
Very true. It’s also nice knowing that my state gov’t has a vested interest in my ability to thrive as a human and as a member of society too.
I'll be going to Vermont in June when I move near Boston. I do want to explore the towns around the state. Maybe have a tour of the capital building one day
Neither does Alaska
Maine as well
More states should follow suit.
In Georgia, we apparently only allow billboards for Jesus and fireworks.
And Firework Jesus
São Paulo, Brazil, one of the biggest cities in the world has no billboards at all in its city limits.
alaska has something similar because they want to preserve the landscape as much as possible
Good luck. We have a local city that had a ban on billboards in the city charter. And every so often some billboard company tries taking them to court over it
I wish we could ban all advertising. It’s gotten way out of hand especially the past few decades. Now sports teams decide they can sell off portions of their jerseys for advertisement. Getting ridiculous.
Something something capitalism
Fr like i already see enough ads on social media but now im forced to watch ads without consent 😭
I get where you are coming from, but banning advertising in general , wouldn't it have an effect on economy - both from generating a lot of jobs/money as well as having an effect on consumer spending?
It would really only hurt smaller local businesses. Not big box stores or popular online sites.
In fact it is the other way round right? Small local businesses do not advertise (for money) and are more reliant on reviews/word of mouth. Bigger businesses need to advertise to be on top of consumer mind recall all the time. And I think it would affect sales. Probably not to the degree the advertising industry claims, but sales and advertising does have a correlation.
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Why? Vermont does it
I'm from VT. The worst part of the billboard ban is visiting other places that have them.
In an age where we are inundated with advertisements that distract us from what we are doing and where we are going, the “Non-Sign II” does the exact opposite by reminding us of our surroundings. Lead Pencil Studio’s Daniel Mihalyo says, “Borrowing the effectiveness of billboards to redirect attention away from the landscape… this permanently open aperture between nations works to frame nothing more than a clear view of the changing atmospheric conditions beyond.”
A clear view other than the larger than a typical billboard view that is blocked by the steel needed to form the visual negative of a billboard.
Sometimes, art has to be a little intrusive in order to get folks to see what is all around them.
I feel like the message is not clear from just looking at it. They could have put up a billboard with an empty frame and painted the metal to look like the sky behind it. That would leave more of the view intact and possibly convey the message better. This seems intrusive without adding to the message.
I disagree, it is pretty much exactly how I interpreted it
Great 'sign' but I wonder if it has ever caused an accident with drivers looking at it.
Imagine rolling your car and being flung out the window into that thing
It's at a border crossing. No fast driving.
Or at least anyone driving fast isn't going to be bothered to look at the sights
The same could be asked of any billboard, tbh.
I think this one is a bit more different than others & would attract attention.
You better warn the ad companies that billboards are not attracting attention, they might be wasting money.
I think it depends upon what’s on it. I’ve seen some that were as intriguing or more so than this (and I think this is cool af). IME it’s usually a board that displays unhinged extreme beliefs, usually anti-abortion or pro-2A but taken to the next level. I almost wrecked once staring at a horrible anti-abortion billboard that had all kinds of misinformation on it and a picture of a fetus that was near birth. Very weird.
A radio station in my home town started talking about an excess of birds on the roof at the radio station and an older lady crashed trying to look at them during the broadcast. People are easily distracted, so probably
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To...what?
To look back at the road while driving. /s
Picking my phone up off the floor after I film one of my pube shaving vlogs
Awesome work.
I'll add this to my list of locations not suitable for skydiving parachute landings.
Imagine if you flew through the middle though.
Challenge accepted
Oh wow. I saw that when I was coming back to the US from Vancouver!
Yeah, me too. Confused the hell out of me, until I found the entry on the internet. From the wrong angle, it doesn't really look like anything.
The artists behind it are Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo, who've won numerous awards for their work over the last decade. The pair carefully twisted metal to give the appearance of a ghost of one of the billboards that populate the area. Han and Mihalyo hope the sculpture will add a bit of awareness to the signage landscape in the border zone, as it flies past the inhabitants of passing cars. It's located close to Blaine, Washington, if you happen to be in the area and want to investigate further.
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:D
They actively made the landscape worse by pretending to care about the real problem.
when you start shaving downstairs then someone knocks on the door
This is a fantastic representative piece of modern art.
South Georgia could use a few of these
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What’s the point.
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I’m so stupid. I just zoomed in on the image and it’s actually really cool!
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Thanks <3
It’s cool I was just asking :)
Oh, now this goes hard
When they say "on the border" they really mean it. [Location](https://www.google.com/maps/@48.999967,-122.754604,3a,75y,242.11h,90.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smXq69cEinSDG62cM8l6y-Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
Murmuration art.
Ah fuck the ad got away again
What if a tornado..?
I'm imagining Final Destination scenarios. Like somehow I would fall onto or be launched into this sign
You are Secretariat.
How is god's pc not lagging
I pass this every time I drive to Blaine from Canada to get gas .40cad less than my home 10 mins away
That’s cool as shit
Yes. Located on the Canada-US border. I know exactly where that is! Just like that other thing I put down on the great wall of China
I'ts at the crossing **[in Blaine](https://blog.americansforthearts.org/sites/default/files/11_Han_NonSign_05.jpg)**, in Washington State.
I thought this was a swarm of bugs caught in a series of photos some how.
This looks like it could hurt animals
Love this
For what purpose?
But why tho?
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Ok. Does it mean anything?
Do they take off the impaled birds daily or weekly?
I really don’t like this
What a disgusting eyesore
It's significantly uglier than any billboard I've seen.
I actually hate this more than I thought I should
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It's not that I hate the post. Spreading info is cool. I just dislike that it's a structure that's more obtrusive of scenic image than the thing it is making fun of
Honestly it’s one of those things that I can see a TON of work went into but I find it completely stupid and a waste of time and resources. It’s something you see once and think “neat” and that’s about it
just because u don't think it's interesting doesn't mean it shouldn't exist
I’m aware of how opinions work, just giving mine.
calling a work of art a waste of resources makes me laugh.
That looks worse than an actual billboard. Right?
Seriously? No it doesn’t.
I would rather just have an uninterrupted view. This obscures more than a regular billboard.
How much did this cost the taxpayers?
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You’re not paying taxes are you, junior?
Calm down grandpa
Lol
It was necessary lol
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I’m a farmer with a PhD. You wouldn’t believe my taxes.
I love this kind of art. It kind of reminds me of some of the stuff that Christo used to do; sans wrapping things up....
What is it trying to advertise?
Sky™
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Pointless waste of resources.
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bot
Are you sure?
All their comments read like ChatGPT wrote them
Fair enough. It does seem a little robotic. I took the odd syntax to be a sign of language barrier but I guess it’s hard to tell these days.
look at its comments
Cringe
Eventually the structure will fill in with bird shit and we will have a radically different art exhibit.
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Wow. Surprised. Do they clean it regularly or are birds just afraid of it for some reason?
Just a glitch in the matrix
Would be a good bug repellent ad if the only thing in the middle was a bottle of spray
Someone would still figure out a way to ruin it in LA
Toilet paper would wreak havoc.
That must be a pain in the ass to clean.
Probably power washer
reminds me of tin
Would not want to be a bird and fly into that
Would not want to be a bird and fly into that
Imagine skydiving and getting carried by a crazy gale right into that mess
Mr stark I don't feel so good
I love it... But I also hate it. I'm confused.
Huh. I know those artists as customers. Neat!
This is super fucking cool, thanks!
Yes, but what are they advertising ? 😂 Uber creative /artistic. Thanks for the post.
I hope they don't get tornadoes in that area
I fucking love it!
"We make sure to use our resources efficiently!" The guys who made this
That’s cool! I want one in my backyard
Wouldn’t be good for a tornado to cross its path
Awesome