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Post by abbe on May 16, 2005 16:10:31 GMT 1
gavin, if I knew you had leopard print hair before I was in zagreb the first week of may I would've tried to look for you and your act on the street and said hello!
(as it was, we spent very little time running errands near the center of town, and didn't notice any leopard haired jugglers...)
I got a laugh out of the giant posters for the new "blood" orange juice from Cappy showing a mobster saying Cappy-sci (capisci?) with a knife to the orange.
the mayor election ones, pretty dull.
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Post by Gavin on May 16, 2005 18:13:09 GMT 1
Very unlikely that you would see me by chance. I've only done 5 shows in the last month, mainly because it's seems to rain every second weekend. I won't be back on the streets here untill 6/6 as I'm of to some festivals in Switzerland and Italy this weekend. Don't forget Festival Cest is d' Best 6-12th june. Lots of fun for all !!! All over center of town. Be sure to keep an eye out for our giant billboards !!!
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Post by EMIZ on May 16, 2005 18:36:24 GMT 1
The big signs in the city are a good deal for all concerned.
Several foreign marketing companies were one step ahead of the game, they approach the super of the old buildings in busy locations and offer to repair their facade as long as the building allows them to keep a huge bill board their during the duration of the work, the end result is new buildings as apposed to old grey buildings that are falling apart.
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Post by Gavin on May 16, 2005 20:25:15 GMT 1
yeah, and it takes an incredibly long time for them to finish the work. I wonder why?
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Post by EMIZ on May 16, 2005 21:37:50 GMT 1
If the super is stupid enough not to agree on a time-scale I have little sympathy, but you shouldn't be so cynical, people who could not afford to renovate their building are having their price of their property increased dramatically. A good example is the big corner building at the cross roads of Zponimirova and Subicevam its nice and white as apposed to the nasty twin tone grey and brown that was falling to pieces originally.
To replace the facade on such a large building is very expensive, so to be under an advertisement board for 6 month is a small price to pay.
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Post by carthan81 on May 17, 2005 11:58:10 GMT 1
I heard that most of the billboard posters recently were for the local elections - 10ft high pictures of politians ugly mugs all over the place.
I would imagine that many "new" poster sites sprang up during the campaign, and now the elections are over many companies will finally have more space to advertise.
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