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When you put a sign up next to a freeway, people will read it until someone takes it down.
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I paint signs - big ones and lots of them - and put them up on freeways.
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All signs posted the night of November 15th in Berkeley, Oakland and Emeryville. Times shown represent when the photos were taken, not necessarily when the signs were hung.
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 05:50 PM PST
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Signposting has become my way of dealing with writer’s block. For me writer’s block has never been having nothing to say, but having too much to say and being overwhelmed by the thought of trying to sort it all out. Although I personally can’t remember...
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on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 08:50 AM PST
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The Story So Far: After seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey when I was nine I make a wish to see what I’ll be doing in 2021, thinking it would be some cool space job, only to find I’m a disheveled hippie putting a sign over a freeway that says “Science is...
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on Fri Oct 13, 2023 at 02:16 PM PDT
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I’d just finished putting up this sign when I saw a little kid walk onto the far side of the overpass. It looked like a boy, maybe nine, with nobody else around. I thought “Something’s wrong...” the way one normally would seeing a little kid by himself...
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on Mon Oct 09, 2023 at 08:27 AM PDT
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About a minute into the tape of my father’s funeral there’s the sound of a door slamming followed by a sort of voiceless commotion. Faintly, if you’re listening for it, you can hear someone gasping for breath. That’s Dad’s eldest son John just getting...
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on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 11:55 AM PDT
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If you remember what it was like looking for something on a VHS tape, you’ll understand why I said “screw it.” and just let the tape run. It was the winter of 2015 and I was packing up forty-five years of my mom’s accumulations and twenty-one of my...
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on Mon Sep 11, 2023 at 08:25 AM PDT
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