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ELECTION POSTERS: guerilla gardening

  • 27-05-2009 12:39pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 771 ✭✭✭


    Step one, get offending election posters that have blown over, are blocking views of oncoming traffic, are hung too low so visually impaired can walk into them... etc

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    Measure your straight lines and fold up the sides.

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    Making small holes with a screwdriver and then using cable ties to hold it together
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    Takes no longer than 10 minutes to have it finished
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    Perfect timing to meet a group canvasing !
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    A trip to woodies in glasnevin.. big up to them for giving us a discount after we explained what we were up to
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    Laying out the plants before planting
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    The first one we made was too deep to put on a window so we positioned
    on the tracks on the wall across the way so there's a nice view for everyone
    around the area instead of overgrown tracks and dumped rubbish.

    Position and water
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    Back to the window boxes.. i think tom stafford makes a lovely bright window box

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    Have a go yourself..!


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    That is excellent, going to have to see if I can do this.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭SeanW


    IBTL

    Best thread in ages :pac:


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 6,376 Mod ✭✭✭✭Macha


    Hah! Brilliant


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭robtri


    f ing brilliant


  • Registered Users Posts: 268 ✭✭theboat


    fair play. keep it up lads!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 771 ✭✭✭whiteshadow


    HEH .. we made the morning issue of the metro!!!

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    further reading...

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    and
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    any other ideas out there of what could be made with election posters..? possibly hanging baskets.. or tall cylindrical planters... options are endless!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30 sammywilsonjnr


    Just heard Mick on Radio Ulster - absolutely savage idea and hope its spreads. Where do the boards end up anyway - do you really think they are collected and recycled (which the material is perfectly capable of)?

    SWJ


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,417 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Never mind the boards, what about the several year's worth of tie wraps still clinging to every pillar and post in the country?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 284 ✭✭monellia


    Hahaha that is brilliant. Well done.


  • Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭fluffyVW


    That is just brilliant!!! Fair play to ya lads!!! :D


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  • Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Love it. Well done to you both!!! Great use of these unsightly posters.

    Where is it that you did this, it looks east wall north strand area???
    I want to look out for them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭SeanW


    looks like Drumcondra.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭probe


    Most other EU countries don't have election posters all over the place. Aside from being ugly and wasting plastic and polluting the place, I suspect they don't help the political process. Just ban them completely. Use renewable communications systems.... One would still have a level playing field.

    In France each commune has an "affichage communal" for local legal notices, and during elections each local candidate can put up one poster on this designated poster board. Period.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    Rebecca Moynihan was by far Labour's most attractive candidate.


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