The high resolution camera of We Built This City brings us the ultimate (well, OK, perhaps the penultimate) in sidewalk typos:
I am still waiting for an 3l1t3 h4xx0r to get a job with DPW to imprint V4L3NC1A. Srlsy, get on that sh1t.
While you are at it, check out Eric Fischer’s highly entertaining “Sidewalks and Things In Them” Flicker stream, as well as my less coherent and half-assed Sidewalk category.
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The DPT breaks out the 733T greek alphabet in da noe!
And here we see Noe’s spin on the city’s Pavement to Parks program — existing green space ever so slowly and subtly encroaching upon neighboring asphalt:
This is how it all starts — first, it’s a chair. Then a swing. Then a pond… And then we end up back with this:
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These are all up and down M1ss1on in La Lengua:
I would love to see a 3 subbing for an E. “C3SAR CHAV3Z.”
Or better yet use the whole “1337″ substitution scheme: V473NC14 5TR33T!
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Update: So much for the Cesar Chavez theory. (Maybe there’s some greedy intersection that says “SANCHEZZZ”.)
DPT definitely needs to buy more letters. Though they so totally could have used two Vs.
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Contractor #1: “Crap, we’re out of N’s.”
Contractor #2: “Use half a W.”
Contractor #1: “I *already* used the W for the M.”
Contractor #2: “Crap. Do we have any Z’s we can rotate?”
Contractor #1: “No — they’re with the crew on Cesar Chavez.”
Contractor #2: “Crap crap CRAP. Hey, I know! We just finished Valencia — use that V, and then use another upside-down V!”
Contractor #1: “Dude, you are a genius.”
(10 minutes later…) Contractor 2: “Dude, are you dyslexic?”
Contractor #1: “Looks kind of cool, actually — italexic!”
Meanwhile, further down Mission…
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