Brandon Gash [73]

Brandon Gash
Gardena, California, USA
www.coroflot.com/brandon2010

1. Xact-o-cide (social awareness to ones self destructive tendencies)
2. Future Tool (handgun)
3. I believe some signs point to this.

David Miller [72]

David Miller
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts USA

1. We saw this hand-made advertisement on an Orange Line (Boston) subway car.
I assume it's a self-portrait. Blake is certainly enterprising. Note that
someone else has given her a hand with spelling. Good luck, Blake!

2. Taken at Stony Brook Station, on the Orange Line subway in Jamaica Plain
(Boston).

3. ...

Steve Gildea [71]

Steve Gildea
Natick, MA, USA
http://suite3d.com

This is one of a series of digital photomontages I have done on Japanese castles and temples. The title is “Matsumoto Castle Exit.”

Steve Messam [70]

Steve Messam
North Stainmore, Cumbria. UK.
website: www.stevemessam.co.uk
blog: www.stevemessam.wordpress.com

As part of my practice I have made, and also been commissioned to make, roadsigns. My signs are based on actual Ministry of Transport designs and conform to their specifications. Only difference is mine are fictitious and probably illegal (oops!).

Anyway, here's two of my own signs and one found sign.

1. At Low Sizergh Farm, Cumbria. 2006.
'Little Folk' is a local term for fairies, goblins and the like. they live on the farm.

2. This is on the Cumbria / North Yorkshire border in Northern England. The border is significant locally as no buses cross the border. the phone books, TV stations and road maintenance all stop here. From the Cumbria side we have no idea what happens on the other side of this arbitory line.

3. This was found in the grounds of the art gallery in Durham, England. The area used to be the biggest coal industry in the world until the government shut down the mines in the 1980's. Consequently much of the area still has remnants of the coal pits. I guess this is the origin of the phrase.

Ray Worsnop [69]

Ray Worsnop [The Accidental Photographer]
Rhyl, North Wales, UK
http://www.photoboxgallery.com/SunRaypictures

I saw the sign in a Ladies Hairdresses shop window here in Rhyl.

EL Putnam [68]

EL Putnam
Boston, MA, USA
www.elputnam.com

I saw this sign in Marthas Vineyard. Despite its presence, people are always trying to climb the cliffs.

Miodrag Kojadinović [67]

Miodrag Kojadinović
Nomadic (North America<->Europe<->East/South East Asia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miodrag_Kojadinovi%C4%87

Pic # 1. Sign on the gate of a foot path in Qin Xiu Shan provincial park in Guangxi-Zhuang Autonomous Province leading to a Buddhist temple. Of course, in terms of being a "sign", this coloured engraving is devoid of meaning to many people, not only foreigners. A not insignificant number of elderly Chinese people, especially minority women in rural areas, cannot read, which is a kind of logical when you need at the very least 2100 signs to be functionally literate, something most rural kids in the 1940s/50s simply could not afford to spend years on learning.

Pic # 2. "The system is fictitious, it's created by humans; we lack imagination!" -- A desperate cry of a) a spiritual artist / b) facade destroying hooligan [pse. circle one] in the heart of Lisbon downtown

Sonja Benskin Mesher [66]

Sonja Benskin Mesher
Llanelltyd, Dolgellau, Gwynedd. Wales
www.sonja-benskin-mesher.com

1. Just saw it out on the moors, middle of no where, made me smile!

2. Seems the boats never have to be in!

Margaret Bellafiore [65]

Margaret Bellafiore
Boston, Ma, USA
http://www.mobius.org/artist/margaret-bellafiore

I saw these 2 signs out in front of the Federal Reserve Bank across the street from South Station, Boston.
Curious mixed message.

Ria Vanden Eynde [64]

Ria Vanden Eynde
Leuven, Belgium
http://painting2cancers.blogspot.com/

-Revolt or Die: I pass that message every day almost. When I notice it, I think, "well, I'm not dead yet?!" Ria The Rebel, she travels by bike.

-Free the Object: Come to think of it, these images go well together, I do seem to have a bit of a revolter mind ;)

Christoph Betsche [63]

Christoph Betsche
Lichtenau, Germany
www.cbet.eu

I took this photo just for fun, a short while ago.
My immediate thoughts were "kind of fun", "sign made for sharks etc..."
Or "beware of the piranha".
But with the global disasters at the moment, the flood catastrophes, the laugher stops and the picture takes on a different, not funny, meaning. Not to mention the global warming, but this is another story.

John Ladd [62]

John Ladd
Fort Worth, texas, USA
http://www.johnladd.com

1. Wisdom
I shot this photograph on US 287 near a ghost town just outside of Quanah Texas....I followed this storm 140 miles to this intersection...and as i watched the skies unfold, this storm went from a classic thunderstorm to an arching bucking tornadically violent beast in about 5 minutes...there's no rhyme or reason other than I prepared myself to catch up with storm from amarillo headed back to fort worth and this spot was just about half way. I think that's what's significant...

2. Danger
This photograph of a Danger Sign in Pamlico Sound is always a study when staying there in Rodanthe North Carolina...to date not one of my fellow kitesurfers has ever hit the sign which is really what's dangerous. The sign is warning us about itself...

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Wisdom and Danger are both the property of John Ladd. Copyright 2010

Craig Goss [61]

Craig Goss
Waitsfield, VT, USA

I Did It My Way, God. Omaha NE, July 24 2010

Cara Brostrom [60]

Cara Brostrom
Boston, Mass, USA
www.diaryoftheunremarkable.com

1. Mansfield, Massachusetts
2. Damascus, Virginia
3. Helsinki, Finland

Steve Dalachinsky [59]

Steve Dalachinsky
New York City, NY, USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Dalachinsky

1. the death of peace prayng to life - peace sign in skeleton

* Poem by Steve Dalachinsky
incomplete directions (for Bernhard Streit)

Tommey [58]

Tommey
Hyde Park, MA, USA
www.artistsatlargeinc.org

Fendell Dustin Pillsbury [57]

Fendell Dustin Pillsbury
Sarasota, Florida, USA

Mockingbird

I took this picture a week and a half after the Deepwater Horizon Rig Explosion.

Alexis White [56]

ALEXIS WHITE
San Miguel de Allende, GTO, Mexico

Estado de Michoacan, January 2010

Description: En route to the coast, we pulled toward the shoulder to allow a speeding convoy of twelve Federale vehicles to pass. Masked police generally signify that there is anti-narco activity going on. This shot of the last convoy vehicle was cautiously taken. The sign translates as "keep your distance."

Kat Good-Schiff [55]

Kat Good-Schiff
Easthampton, MA, USA
http://www.dragonsmeow.blogspot.com

1. "Isn't it ironic?" Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN

2. "Forest of the Subconscious" Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

3. "Courage" Hall of Ideas, The Mary Baker Eddy Library, Boston, MA

Cathy Nolan Vincevic [54]

Cathy Nolan Vincevic
Deerfield, NH, USA
http://www.mobius.org/artist/cathy-nolan

Shil Sengupta [53]

Shil Sengupta
Arlington, Massachusetts, USA

1. Longing
2. Forgotten
3. Resilience

Ignacio Pérez Pérez [52]

Ignacio Pérez Pérez
Caracas, Venezuela
http://antesdenadaydespuesdetodo.net

1. ART, Caracas, Venezuela, 2010.

2. KEEP LEFT, Caracas, Venezuela, 2009.

3. SENSO UNICO, Rome, Italy, 2010.

Empire S.N.A.F.U Restoration Project [51]

Empire S.N.A.F.U Restoration Project
Somewhere in Massachusetts, USA
http://www.empiresnafu.org/

Jackson [50]

Jackson
Key West, Florida, United States
www.mothkingdom.com

Keepin’ it real
And yes, that’s me on the right.

Jonathan West [49]

Jonathan West
Bel Air, Maryland, USA

1. All Air should be free

2. "God is watching"..

Lawrence S Johnson [48]

Lawrence S Johnson
Donostia-San Sebastian, Gipuzkopa, Spain
http://meotod.com
http://lnaaguge.blogspot.com/

1. Dada’s is in Glen Lyon, Pennsylvania, an ex-coal-mining town. I think that “Dada” does not mean “early avant-garde art movement” in Polish, but it gave me a dada moment anyway.

2. This is a sign on the door of a design studio in Chelsea, NYC. “This is not an art gallery.” It’s not a pipe, either.

Jane Linders [47]

Jane Linders
St. Louis, MO, USA
http://www.freewebs.com/janelinders

All three signs were captured at Burningman festival in Black Rock Desert , Nevada. I've seen some of the most hilarious signs ever at this crazy anarchistic art party located 150 miles from the nearest mall.

I live in St. Louis, MO and try to attend BM every year.