Some of these pirratic signs on Saturdays give me a homy feeling of 'only in Israel'. I like driving on a sunny Saturday and seeing a 'JAHNUN TO GO 500m' cheerful piratic sign on the road. Late Friday night these are the kind of signs that keep you awake.
And don't sell me this 'third world country' complaints, I see lots of these signs on Swiss highways, and usually they're for commercial events sponsored by reknowned Swiss banks.
Actually the most dangerous type of driving is when you have no features to notice while driving fast. If it's late friday night, and you're driving back from a terrific concert, and you're 140kph in a highway tunnel, and the road looks exactly the same for 4 km or so, then your brain slowly feels safe enough to shut down, and that's very dangerous. The cheap solution would be to paint these tunnels with alternating patterns (borrowed from Windows library, as far as I can estimate Swiss creativity), just to keep drivers' brains busy. The elegant solution would be to spray them with grafittis and Pirratic road signs. Since we're talking about painting concrete, the title 'national spirit' fits it better then 'landscape deformation'
As for Faithless, they didn't give interviews, but the concert was superb, I took some close-up photos and interviewed Stereo MC's. If you're interested we can make an article for the Ayal out of it.
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