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Old August 25th, 2009 #34
Kyrik
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Guerrilla tactics such as street posters and random posting, alternative advertising can be done nearly anywhere and the cost is what ever you make of it, cardboard and paint are cheap do your sign and hang it wherever lots of people can see it, metro overpasses during rush hour traffic is a coveted tactic for the underground scene.

Vinyl street posters can be printed up for little money from 50 to 99 cents a sq. foot depending on size and colors used, your message has to be concise, people's attention span is not what it used to be.
Well put. During Times of Trouble and revolutionary times, in other countries, eventually the landscape becomes festooned with so much propaganda posters that authorities stop removing it, it becomes too costly to do so. Good places are high up places like overpasses, as you mentioned, places where municipal cleaners cannot easily reach.

Guerilla Practitioners of this art would do well to have a device that is a stick that telescopes out and has a claw made so that you can extend this wand, put you sticker on it, reach up high and apply it, all in a very short time. That way nobody has to walk around town carrying ladders and stacks of posters. This device could be modified from already existing telescoping picker-uppers already on the market. The stick could be shoved up a coat sleeve until deployed.

Placing it out of reach gives the poster or sticker more 'shelf life' and 'hang time'.