UGH, I saw this on 16th and Guerrero and even though I am not some iphone toting-permanently connected-cell phone carrier, it still just made me scoff. Stupid smug shit like this is how SF gets such a lame reputation. Something about the way it’s written you can just feel the creator sitting back and enjoying the smell of their own farts. There’s something to be said about reconciling the difference between the visual/tangible city around us and the increasingly intangible technology tapped world online with cellphones, but I think it’s lame when someone has to remind you of it. I was actually on a nice walk when I read it and it just made me lament the escapist idea that technology is some sort of alienating distance between us and interaction. I feel like it’s increasingly the opposite of that, connecting people and making casual friendships more multifaceted.
I just thought it was too on the nose. But I like things that aren’t ads better than ads. Maybe someone should follow it with something more thought provoking?
And in this person’s defense, I did almost exactly this kind of thing when I was about 7 years younger.
[...] posted this “please take one” sign with a nice message. I kind of wish I’d seen it myself — while in the company of a few people who are glued [...]
[...] publicó este letrero de “por favor tome uno” con un mensaje amable. Me hubiera gustado verlo con mis propios ojos mientras estaba con algunas personas que viven casados [...]
[...] Looks like Valencia is getting some official flyer postin’ posts on those halfsie telephone poles. With this increased visibility, maybe now we’ll finally find Grease Lightnin’ the parrot or stop staring at our cell phones. [...]
. Anyway, some people just have phone issues.</p>
%5Bvia+%3Ca+href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missionmission.org%2F2010%2F01%2F05%2Fmore-than-a-cell-phone%2F%22%3EMission+Mission%3C%2Fa%3E%5D&clickthru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missionmission.org%2F2010%2F01%2F05%2Fmore-than-a-cell-phone%2F){kind=link}
Allan Hough (7858)
Brittany Janis & Katie Cruz (104)
So should I not be reading this post on my iPhone?
yeah, but there are other people in the world around me! yuck.
and may I add, LOOK UP when you walk and text? Seriously people…
love it.
UGH, I saw this on 16th and Guerrero and even though I am not some iphone toting-permanently connected-cell phone carrier, it still just made me scoff. Stupid smug shit like this is how SF gets such a lame reputation. Something about the way it’s written you can just feel the creator sitting back and enjoying the smell of their own farts. There’s something to be said about reconciling the difference between the visual/tangible city around us and the increasingly intangible technology tapped world online with cellphones, but I think it’s lame when someone has to remind you of it. I was actually on a nice walk when I read it and it just made me lament the escapist idea that technology is some sort of alienating distance between us and interaction. I feel like it’s increasingly the opposite of that, connecting people and making casual friendships more multifaceted.
you can almost hear them thinking “I’m the new Yoko Ono” while they tape it up.
So who would the new Yoko Ono break up?
I gotta agree with Devin. Sure there is a point to be had, but the whole tone of it smacks of superior than thou, pretentious, smug bullshit. Yuck.
the whole thing fails because if I weren’t already noticing the world around me, I wouldn’t notice the stupid sign in the first place.
you guys should leave 17-year-old, idealistic, white girls alone, both sexually and otherwise.
this is more like a young Mark Morford on acid.
I just thought it was too on the nose. But I like things that aren’t ads better than ads. Maybe someone should follow it with something more thought provoking?
And in this person’s defense, I did almost exactly this kind of thing when I was about 7 years younger.
[...] posted this “please take one” sign with a nice message. I kind of wish I’d seen it myself — while in the company of a few people who are glued [...]
[...] It’s a little SF-cheesy but I love this. [...]
[...] more to life than a cell phone? [...]
[...] publicó este letrero de “por favor tome uno” con un mensaje amable. Me hubiera gustado verlo con mis propios ojos mientras estaba con algunas personas que viven casados [...]
[...] Looks like Valencia is getting some official flyer postin’ posts on those halfsie telephone poles. With this increased visibility, maybe now we’ll finally find Grease Lightnin’ the parrot or stop staring at our cell phones. [...]