i think that used to be a restaurant

Billboards are the answer to empty storefronts. It is just like a movie set. The downtown has seemed eerily vacant as of late. Even rush hour traffic is less. Have we been "left behind"?

The first thought I had when I opened the email and saw the image and the sentiment was how far we were from the over-indulged electronic billboards of the Blade Runner futurescape. Since changing jobs I haven't really been downtown much save the occasional trip to take some photos or meetings which isn't the same as the everyday commute where the little nuances of street life start to appear.

How sad though, that the large ground floor windows, once sharing the life of the interior space with the street are now to be covered with adverts for guitar lessons/LASIK eye surgery. I suppose there is some logic to putting this sort of advertising so close to the target demographic, despite their vision problems they can probably read it, but there is something dreadfully sad about the spiraling death of properties with proper street frontage.

I am sure this is just indicative of the current economic times, but that doesn't make me feel much better.