About a week after they put them up in my neighbourhood (baker st), the flyposters started smearing polyfilla over this to smooth it out, leaving big ugly patches, which were quickly covered over with flyposters. Ironically most of them were for Madonna's new single. She lived in the neighbourhood. I was actually considering putting pictures of myself all over her house, to see how she liked it :)

ROFL, how about Ductape wrapped around the whole pole?

In Seattle, they're putting up patterns of flat glass beads to do the same thing - it's quite attractive.

There are two types of people in this world... those who love graffiti, and those who despise it. It's often easy to see which side of the class structure fence they sit. The ones who see the city as a repressive place, focus on the graffiti as a breath of fresh air, an embellishment, a splash of hope and color in an otherwise gray drabby world... While those who would come along with violently toxic paint-removing solvents to erase art off trains and walls, are but tyrannical soldiers from a dull dying civilization... I love graffiti... I love flyers and posters and hand outs littering the streets... it's just paper for Pete sake... it makes the City what a city should be... this pole is offensive to me... we're already living inside Wal-Mart... The punks of the 80's had the right idea... they went to jail to preserve our right to post bills... a Constitutional right I might ad... which the powers that be keep trying to take away from you... so the only place left to promote underground shows will be your smart phone... while the whole world around you will look made of Disney stucko!

I gotta say that I'm with Remy on this one. It's nice to have places where anyone can post whatever they wish. Otherwise, most/all of what we see is corporate propaganda.

I posted it mostly because I like novel approaches to "problem"-solving and this one caught my eye.

Let's hope the punks have at it with duct tape and other macgyver approaches.

Graham