Stickers as advertisement?

Okay, so we know posting up fliers all over town is a waste of time and energy because they're all too easily/frequently torn down because of people who don't appreciate them in front of their business or from scilons or from trash cleanup or someone just being an ass. So, what about stickers? I've seen decals on lamp posts and street signs all over for various garage bands or Ron Paul that stay up for months, lets use the anon store we have and turn out a bunch of "Google: Lisa McPherson / Operation Snow White / Operation Freakout / etc." or "Protest in SD on such-and-such a date" or "Challenge the Cult @ SanDiegoAnon.com" decals and bumper stickers (the latter NOT to be used on our actual cars btw). Just stick 'em on any post or street sign.

It inhabits the legal gray area of "what is vandalism?" but is low key enough that no one can be arsed to enforce it. For a sticker to be really effective, though, it has to be short, simple, and get the point across.

I have additional ideas that could be useful about this, but I don't want the skin jobs to steal them. PM me if this idea takes flight.

After lurking through cafepress I've found there are in fact a few informational stickers on the market that can be improved on.

http://bumperstickers.cafepress.com/anonymous-scientology_stickers

I still say we should make some of our own including SanDiegoAnon.com ones to bring in more helpers and support money for protest supplies such as fliers and afro-wigs

EDIT: I think we'll be okay on the issue of possible vandalism as its not permanent and doesn't damage anything. We should definitely avoid putting them on the FRONT of street signs though as that can be construed as impeding traffic in some way.

Oh definitely back of street signs is necessary. So many times I drive by and see random crap on signs and wish we did that too...

ANONdur wrote:

Oh definitely back of street signs is necessary. So many times I drive by and see random crap on signs and wish we did that too...

THe back part please, I've seen sticker abuse on the front.

ANONdur wrote:

Oh definitely back of street signs is necessary. So many times I drive by and see random crap on signs and wish we did that too...

On my commute to work, someone had posted a Ron Paul sticker on a low "No U Turn" sign. Just the interplay between the sticker and the reversed arrow caused me to think that the poster had not considered all the implications of his final product.

Is there any substance that can be used to write on STOP signs, that remains visible, but falls off at the slightest hint of a cleaning sponge or a good rain? Ideally, we should be able to commandeer street signs, but like chalk art, do no lasting damage or piss off anyone trying to clean it.

And speaking of which.... Sidewalk chalk on the public sidewalk in front of the org? Discuss.

I was at Wal-Mart the other day and saw this temporary 'paint' markers that people use to draw on their car windows for HS graduations / b-days / sporting events. I've never used it but I believe it comes off rather easily, we'd have to test it though as the surface area of a street sign isn't the same as a car window.

I'd try chalk first, it's cheaper. If that sticks, then it can't hurt, neh? The only problem is that it takes time to do stuff in chalk.

If the temporary markers work, then we could use stencils.

Its just that that goes more sorta toward the definition of 'graffiti' when you get into things like writing messages on public property even if it is temporary paint. Its a real touchy subject and we'd probably do better to ask the police for clarification beforehand about the paintmarkers but I could see it being useful as a random tactic. I guess its just the visual aspect of it being similar to tagging thats the problem. Stenciled messages on sidewalks with chalk should be okay I think. Problem is theres always so many State and Local ordinances everywhere you go these days that you practically can't even throw a cat at a homeless person without getting cited, I mean its ridiculous!

Its most likely too late to print up any stickers in time to provide monetary support for the Macab Invasion but theres still August. We should start coming up with concepts for designs/slogans for them, that is if the Wog Squad is interested in taking on this idea (you guys do run the store after all)?

Also, money. Advertisement that literally is worth what it costs. We can write the basic phrases/web sites on the borders of bills and release them to the general public everytime we buy a happy meal

Anon41 wrote:

Also, money. Advertisement that literally is worth what it costs. We can write the basic phrases/web sites on the borders of bills and release them to the general public everytime we buy a happy meal

I've seen people use stamps for

"YOUFOUNDTHECASH.com" Very easy anytime you have dollar bills lying around.

A Noun? A Miss! wrote:

I'd try chalk first, it's cheaper. If that sticks, then it can't hurt, neh? The only problem is that it takes time to do stuff in chalk.

If the temporary markers work, then we could use stencils.

I remember reading awhile ago on /entrub/ about some anons using spray chalk in a can and big stencils. I don't really remember where though.

Anon41 wrote:

Its just that that goes more sorta toward the definition of 'graffiti' when you get into things like writing messages on public property even if it is temporary paint. Its a real touchy subject and we'd probably do better to ask the police for clarification beforehand about the paintmarkers but I could see it being useful as a random tactic.

When the police spoke with us during Spy vs. Sci, I asked. They expressly said that sidewalk chalk would count as graffiti and to please not do it.

On the way home, either driving at night or day, a STOP sign at the corner of a street has this weird blotch of something.. looks like graffiti, but when you get closer it disappears and the sign looks normal.

So it only showed from a certain angle that the sun would hit it at, kinda like a glare, or a distance the headlights would hit it from.

I'll go out and check it out closer tomorrow.

Mattering on what would be written on the sign, it'd have to be big and short to get a message out.

the sidewalk chalk is something that WE would need to clean afterwards due to it being considered vandalism be cause 'it takes time and energy to remove'

If I had the money I would love to get my hands on some of the stickers and spread them around my part of town (especially the high school, best to get to them first right?). I'll keep it in mind for when I find myself a new job.

There are stickers of the most ridiculous things all around my place of work...but people stop to look at them. *postpostpost*

I wish we could use side walk chalk whenever and wherever we wanted

You found the sticker?

we can use spray paint wherever and whenever(except when cops are around) we want

ANOthersandiegaN wrote:

we can use spray paint wherever and whenever(except when cops are around) we want

um...no

gargy wrote:

um...no

Yes we can. The question is SHOULD we.

I believe we shouldn't.

We want the cops friendly with us, and if we go tagging, they WILL know it's us.

Yeah, because we will spray paint a giant mural of the large hardon collider

inb4bomberman tagging

What about Yoshi? BBM been done before.

If stickers had "Xenu" on them, they would have to send out the Mighty Oatea Committee to remove them.

Lowly staff aren't supposed to even SEE the name of Xenu!

"I spent $360,000 so I could scrape stickers off light poles?"