Nearly a year after her daughter's murder, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) expresses her outrage by buying up advertising space on three adjacent
roadside billboards in Ebbing, Mo..
Not exact matches
If what you say is true, then why is it that I see
billboards,
roadside signs, TV, print and onlineadvertisements EVERY day
in which religious groups try to force their particular brand of religion on everyone, yet on the rare occasion that an atheist does the same, it makes national news.
In fact, a
roadside sign for «Bowled Peanuts» can brighten my whole day as can a hand - painted
billboard exhorting me to «Give Your Loved One A Missage For Christmas.»
Its 71 degrees now... A trip across state this morning found the leaves red, orange and yellow... dancing
in the light wind... Pumpkins were
in abundance at the
roadside stands, apple spicy lattes on the
billboards and fashionistas defying the temp wore ankle booties and blanket scarves... Hey, its just what you imagined when you thought of fall... all of that fall stuff... Have an apple....
Think a dash of Chinatown's noir sprinkled over Boogie Nights, and you're
in the ballpark, with Nixon on the cover of Forbes, Jaws 2 decorating
roadside billboards and exquisite period details shining on every corner.
Those three
billboards of the title — blood red with stark black letters, rising out of the finely realized mist and mood of Ben Davis» cinematography — stand
in a field by the
roadside, asking questions and hurling accusations.
The highway offers clues: a matchbook hidden
in your armrest, a photo
in the glovebox,
billboards and crows along the
roadside.
For whatever mayhem may take place within the confines of his simple church, the public aspect of his project is pure
roadside carnie, as his lawn sprouts
billboards with messages like «God Loves Fags» written
in Hebrew, a «Crucify thy Selfie» made of quotations from three famous art - history crucifixion paintings with a hole to stick your head through, and a lion's cage made of an old hay wagon.
In Ruscha's work, language and architecture are used to build pictures that radiate with the optimism of 1950s highway
billboards — heavenly
roadside visions as tempting and fleeting as a mirage.
Inspired by Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular reflects an expanded view of the vernacular posited
in Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour, and Robert Venturi's Learning from Las Vegas (1972), one that embraces the spectacle of the street and the stylistic cacophony of the strip — the totems,
billboards, and neon signs of
roadside America.
Inspired by Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular reflects an expanded view of the vernacular posited
in Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour, and Robert Venturi's Learning from Las Vegas (1972), one that embraces the spectacle of the street and the stylistic cacophony of the strip - the totems,
billboards, and neon signs of
roadside America.
The Rocket Skates: Similar inadequacies
in the Acme Rocket Skates caused him to lose control and collide «with a
roadside billboard so violently as to leave a hole
in the shape of his full silhouette.»