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Billboards that face the pike or the Zakim offend me much less than ones which tower over commercial squares in JP, Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park, etc. - they cheapen those areas horribly.
 
I think if the city/state wants to voluntarily "de-beautify" itself, then let it be. Billboards are the least of our problems. I honestly wouldn't be opposed to over-the-top London-Underground style ad-campaigns in T stations if it meant the T could generate more money to improve services.
 
That looks almost as dangerous to watch as to race in. Wonder if anyone's ever been killed at this event?
 
Oh my god... Red Bull, Samsung, and Canon actually sponsor this?
 
czsz said:
Anyone here been to pinkcomma, the new "radical architecture gallery" in the South End?

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/news/gsd_stories/pink_comma.html
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They've been around for years.

Pasnik is always yapping about it at Wentworth.

I really love their passion for what they call Boston's "heroic" period when concrete building after concrete building went up. Now most people hate those buildings, but I really like them all too.
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It's called arrogance. Very common amongst architects.

There was nothing heroic about carte blanche demolition of neighborhoods and deportation of residents from therein. Architects just like playing God and the sense of power. Morals are for mortal men, and not the self proclaimed gods, in the minds of egotistical architects.
 
It's an annual race held in Valparaiso, Chile, on February 20. This video appears to be taken from a camera mounted on the winner's helmet.
 
Billboards that face the pike or the Zakim offend me much less than ones which tower over commercial squares in JP, Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park, etc. - they cheapen those areas horribly.
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I actually love billboards in commercial neighborhoods like these. They help to fill out the streetwall where many Boston squares consist of too-short taxpayer buildings, and they definitely help distinguish city and suburb (Wellesley has one story commercial buildings too, but it doesn't feel "urban" in the same way...billboards are part of the reason). Did I mention the way they provide extra revenue for landlords and probably help keep shopfronts in those neighborhoods affordable?

As for that billboard on the Garden...as I recall, it suffered an exhaustive BRA review before approval, which nixed video advertising on that wall, but consented to the static ad in the course of the negotiation process. The city only wants to stick to "the letter of the law" when political forces push it that way...usually when there's a revenue gap that needs plugging.

Oh, and Valparaiso has always looked like an incredibly underrated city to me. Like some kind of extreme San Francisco.
 
Davis Square used to have those billboards all over it. They made the place look cruddy. I'm very glad they're gone now.
 
On the topic of extreme sports:

Wingsuit Basejumping.

Too bad I couldn't embed this. Still, awesome video. Even better combination of compound words.

That biking video up there is insane. I can't believe they actually do that.
 
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How is it that I'm just finding out about this thread?

Thanks guys!
 
Shepard said:
Billboards that face the pike or the Zakim offend me much less than ones which tower over commercial squares in JP, Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park, etc. - they cheapen those areas horribly.
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+1

Ron Newman said:
Davis Square used to have those billboards all over it. They made the place look cruddy. I'm very glad they're gone now.
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I once said at a neighborhood meeting that I wished Orient Heights looked more like Davis Square. People looked at me as if I were a talking dog.
 
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