Tales of the Freewayblogger

Monday, May 20, 2013

Earth Posters on Highway 101

I bought a few hundred of these posters which I've started placing on freeways on the west coast. I'm hoping to mirror all those flags that went up after September 11th, except putting them up during the tragedy instead of after. These are appearing on Highway 101 in San Francisco, Marin and Sonoma counties. Quotes are taken from Daily Kos signature lines.

"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help. The only ones." - John Steinbeck

"You know, I sometimes think if I could see, I'd be kicking a lot of ass." - Stevie Wonder

"Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes." - Newt Gingrich

YTD - 288

Monday, May 13, 2013

Sacramento

"Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now." - Edward Abbey

Signs placed by freeways in Sacramento, California.

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools." - Herbert Spencer

How to Make Signs

"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer." - Edward R. Murrow

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" - Dorothy Parker

YTD - 278

Sunday, May 05, 2013

Los Angeles continued

The above picture was sent in by a reader. The sign, over 64 feet long, was attached to fencing on Palms Ave. over Interstate 405 during rush hour.

"Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas" - Erwin Rommel

Signs placed in April on the 101, 110, 5, 405 and 10 in Los Angeles.

"Your action, and your action alone, determines your worth." - Johann Fichte

“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” - Stewart Brand

How to make signs.

"If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilization due to climate change becomes inevitable." - Tim Flannery

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible." - Frank Herbert

"No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up." - Lily Tomlin

YTD - 272

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Save the Humans: Los Angeles

"Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames." - John F. Kennedy

Signs placed over and next to freeways around Los Angeles. Image taken from "Before and After Science" by Brian Eno.

"My friends, our challenge today is not to save Western civilization — or Eastern, for that matter. All civilization is at stake, and we can save it only if all peoples join together in the task." - Kofi Anan

"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." - Confucius

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, "Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem." If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action." - Al Gore

"We live in an essential and unresolvable tension between our unity with nature and our dangerous uniqueness. Systems that attempt to place and make sense of us by focusing exclusively either on the uniqueness or the unity are doomed to failure." - Stephen Jay Gould

"History and geology show what an eyeblink it’s been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate." - David Brin