I don't know how I feel about REVS painting over a beautiful old fading ad on a building in Chelsea. I guess I do. I guess it makes me feel slightly pissed off! The only thing that is keeping me from completely dismissing REVS as a visual eyesore is the fact that the building to the right looks like a Holiday Inn in Peoria!
2/13/2009
REVS
I don't know how I feel about REVS painting over a beautiful old fading ad on a building in Chelsea. I guess I do. I guess it makes me feel slightly pissed off! The only thing that is keeping me from completely dismissing REVS as a visual eyesore is the fact that the building to the right looks like a Holiday Inn in Peoria!
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I didn't know there were any REVS/COST still around. Dats old school.
Dear Lisanne-
I know how you feel. Being the one who coined the term "fading ad" - I have a certain attachment to these remnants of our commercial past. But graffiti and vandalism are part of the aging process. When fading ads intersect graffiti or street art, I call them "urban ediglyphs." Edi - from ediface or building - and glyph from petroglyph.
You DID coin the term and it has worked it's way into daily vocabulary! Check out Frank's blog folks, called "Fading Ad"!
"Urban Ediglyph" is a great way at looking at the aging process, I suppose anything is better than ripping them down, but then again, change is inevitable.
I know this is an old post, but I'm pretty sure that REVS/COST piece has been up there for decades, anybody can confirm?
REVS/COST goes back to the late 70s. I remember where I was when I "met a guy who knew a guy". Who knew REVS or Cost. It was before 1980
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