Great Shots: Yoko’s Peace
9 01 2009Though our fair city has banished billboards, huge posters on the side of buildings still seem to be prevalent. Check out what’s going up on the side of the Hampton Inn at the junction of 6th St & K St NW. The “Imagine Peace” references a web 2.0 type web presence for the one and only Miss Yoko Ono, and yes… she even has a flickr account!
[Photo: Yoko Ono Official]
Seriously? No more billboards? I liked them. Made it seem like we were a real city that advertisers cared about—am I the only one that finds the advertisements on the metro for helicopters and such to be totally irrelevant?
It’s a loophole that has not been closed.
Billboards are indeed illegal in DC. The problem is the definition of billboard is circa 1930 and new fiber/printing technologies circa 2000 allow for giant billboard-sized banners that by DC’s strict definition of “billboards” are not actually billboards. That’s why these giant signs are all over town: they’re not technically billboards.