{"id":5901,"date":"2010-09-17T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T05:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2018-09-23T02:43:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T21:43:46","slug":"bandit-signs-for-good-roadside-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/bandit-signs-for-good-roadside-haiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandit signs&#8230; for good roadside haiku."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roadside_haiku.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5902\" title=\"Roadside_haiku\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roadside_haiku.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roadside_haiku_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5903\" title=\"Roadside_haiku_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roadside_haiku_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roadside_haiku_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5904\" title=\"Roadside_haiku_3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roadside_haiku_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Atlanta, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere is another item to add to my list of \u201cthings I didn\u2019t know had a name:\u201d bandit signs. In case you, like me, are unfamiliar with the term, bandit signs are those dubious-looking advertisements that dot the country\u2019s commuter roads, promising fast money, easy weight loss, and painless hair removal. Usually tacked to telephone poles or stoplights, bandit signs are gloomy but reliable indicators of our collective anxieties. Yet where some see desperation, the Atlanta-based artist John Morse sees inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Morse installed five hundred of his very own bandit signs at busy intersections across Atlanta. However, his signs came with a unique twist: they were written in the form of a haiku, the traditional Japanese poem that consists of seventeen syllables when written in English. Instead of images of nature and the changing seasons, Morse\u2019s poems allude to cash-for-gold schemes and singles meet-ups. They are, as he explains, comments on the \u201cconsumerist allure\u201d implicit in bandit signs&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>[from a post last week by Meredith Blake in <\/em><a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2010\/09\/roadside-haiku.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a><em>]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Watch a great little video about John Morse and his roadside haiku installations on <em>Vimeo<\/em> <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/14337511\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (2:29). If you find yourself in the Atlanta region, you can use <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?client=safari&amp;oe=UTF8&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;start=400&amp;num=200&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=103445176140142718938.00048e1d32a4aff41e7cd&amp;z=13\" target=\"_blank\">this <em>Google<\/em> map<\/a> to find hundreds of the signs (Morse has mapped all of their locations).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, Georgia \u201cHere is another item to add to my list of \u201cthings I didn\u2019t know had a name:\u201d bandit signs. In case you, like me, are unfamiliar with the term, bandit signs are those dubious-looking advertisements that dot the country\u2019s commuter roads, promising fast money, easy weight loss, and painless hair removal. Usually tacked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,8,14,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15911,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions\/15911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}