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GagaDaily.com (2.0) 12-4-2011
So really I'm not sure where the right place is to put my little story but I guess Gaga Thoughts will work.
I am a failed poster thief. (well, let's call it "liberator") :haha:
I have been successful in the past, (2004 Gwen Stefani Wango Tango bus stop poster, countless Lion King store displays, the odd newspaper stand promo (actually I have asked for most of those, save Gwennie)) but today was a particularly crushing defeat.
Mostly because these posters I saw today, unlike all my other conquests, were of Gaga.
And they were so damn big and beautiful. Oh my god.
Anyway, I was out on a doctor's appointment trip to the Cedars Sinai Medical Plaza Towers in Los Angeles. Specifically, at the intersection of Hamel Street and the 8600 block of 3rd Street. (right in front of the big black twin medical towers)
Hidden under some scaffolding at a construction site across the street, were 3 beautiful huge images of Gaga's pyro-tits bra and the letters Lady Gaga, advertising The HBO Special, The Remix of Born This Way, and Born This Way -- The Collection.
SO nice looking amidst all the dust and wood and ugly pipes and working men.
I had to try to get one. Or all of them :crazy: so the second I popped my relative into the cardiologist's office, I snuck out on the pretense of using the restroom, and seeing the snail's pace of the elevators, opted for the stairs, flying down 10 flights to street level. Panting a bit, I emerged into the daylight to see my quarry right across the street!
8600 block of 3rd Street, Los Angeles: *behind black car)
Poster on Hamel Street (around the corner, intersecting 3rd)
Front:
Center:
Bottom:
Side view with my scrabbles on the bottom of one:
Side view 3rd Street:
Lady:
What a great poster, no? Sure isn't for sale in any store, either. These are some of the rarest posters in the movie/film/TV/music memorabilia world to get in your collections. Why, you may ask?
Because they are almost never saved by anyone, except possibly the lucky few printing company employees who take one or two for themselves or friends. They aren't meant to be taken down, just repostered over by more paper and glue. Street posters, like this Gaga one, are generally made of the same paper that was once used universally in postage stamps: thin paper with water activated adhesives coating the back. This paper can easily be applied with a bucket of shellac-type glue and Swiffer-type mop. In most big cities like LA and NYC, this is done by a guy and a truck at 3am, when the streets are deserted. Unless you just happen to be in the streets at that time and have a nice cash present for the Swiffer-mop poster guy -- you are going to have a hard time getting one of these.
Which is exactly what I had -- a very hard time. Approaching the poster, I tested the edges with my pocket knife I always keep in my backpack, and discovered to my disgust that the Gaga poster was very thin paper indeed, and securely glazed into place by an even coating of thick clear hardened glue. The Gaga poster was pasted over posters older and thinner and more brittle than it was, and these were hardened and stuck to a very splintery plywood board. I stared at it and kept feeling around with my knife for purchase, which just wasn't there.
By this time, I could tell people around me thought I was a little strange. The Latino construction workers were sniggering on their scaffoldings above me; and people waiting for crosswalk signals seemed to be riveted by me. Perhaps they were wondering just what was so great about this poster that I seemed oblivious to the leaky pipes dripping questionable droplets on my head as I sliced at it.
One worker above my head answered the others in laughter: "La senora quires Gaga!"
Translation: "The lady wants Gaga!"
Oh, guapo, you have no idea, mehan! I thought to myself as I tried for 15 minutes, getting cuts and scrapes on my fingers, trying to pry up the edges and free the poster. But the harder I tried the worse it became, with the poster ripping itself up more than it was tearing away from the wall. It was stuck so very well that any attempt to peel it off just peeled off strips instead of the panels I wanted. (You can see in one of the side view images the poster where I tried in vain to tear it off the plywood wall.)
I had to give up. Believe me I hated to, but even CrazySkas knows when she's beaten. :haha:
So I settled for taking pictures of it to show all of you, and decided this:
If anyone has a good chainsaw, or likes to sneak around at 3am waiting for Swiffer Mops and a truck --
this rare street poster could be yours!
If not, then you can just rightclick and save all of my images of it for your pop hearts.
I, in the meantime, am going to google "street poster printers" and see what happens :haha:
Maybe I can haggle one directly from a source. These blasted gorgeous posters don't just make and hang themselves! :haha:
Thank you for reading my story of what I did today :)
---ChicaSkas
(that loca senora who quires Gaga)
GagaDaily.com (2.0) 12-4-2011
So really I'm not sure where the right place is to put my little story but I guess Gaga Thoughts will work.
I am a failed poster thief. (well, let's call it "liberator") :haha:
I have been successful in the past, (2004 Gwen Stefani Wango Tango bus stop poster, countless Lion King store displays, the odd newspaper stand promo (actually I have asked for most of those, save Gwennie)) but today was a particularly crushing defeat.
Mostly because these posters I saw today, unlike all my other conquests, were of Gaga.
And they were so damn big and beautiful. Oh my god.
Anyway, I was out on a doctor's appointment trip to the Cedars Sinai Medical Plaza Towers in Los Angeles. Specifically, at the intersection of Hamel Street and the 8600 block of 3rd Street. (right in front of the big black twin medical towers)
Hidden under some scaffolding at a construction site across the street, were 3 beautiful huge images of Gaga's pyro-tits bra and the letters Lady Gaga, advertising The HBO Special, The Remix of Born This Way, and Born This Way -- The Collection.
SO nice looking amidst all the dust and wood and ugly pipes and working men.
I had to try to get one. Or all of them :crazy: so the second I popped my relative into the cardiologist's office, I snuck out on the pretense of using the restroom, and seeing the snail's pace of the elevators, opted for the stairs, flying down 10 flights to street level. Panting a bit, I emerged into the daylight to see my quarry right across the street!
8600 block of 3rd Street, Los Angeles: *behind black car)
Poster on Hamel Street (around the corner, intersecting 3rd)
Front:
Center:
Bottom:
Side view with my scrabbles on the bottom of one:
Side view 3rd Street:
Lady:
What a great poster, no? Sure isn't for sale in any store, either. These are some of the rarest posters in the movie/film/TV/music memorabilia world to get in your collections. Why, you may ask?
Because they are almost never saved by anyone, except possibly the lucky few printing company employees who take one or two for themselves or friends. They aren't meant to be taken down, just repostered over by more paper and glue. Street posters, like this Gaga one, are generally made of the same paper that was once used universally in postage stamps: thin paper with water activated adhesives coating the back. This paper can easily be applied with a bucket of shellac-type glue and Swiffer-type mop. In most big cities like LA and NYC, this is done by a guy and a truck at 3am, when the streets are deserted. Unless you just happen to be in the streets at that time and have a nice cash present for the Swiffer-mop poster guy -- you are going to have a hard time getting one of these.
Which is exactly what I had -- a very hard time. Approaching the poster, I tested the edges with my pocket knife I always keep in my backpack, and discovered to my disgust that the Gaga poster was very thin paper indeed, and securely glazed into place by an even coating of thick clear hardened glue. The Gaga poster was pasted over posters older and thinner and more brittle than it was, and these were hardened and stuck to a very splintery plywood board. I stared at it and kept feeling around with my knife for purchase, which just wasn't there.
By this time, I could tell people around me thought I was a little strange. The Latino construction workers were sniggering on their scaffoldings above me; and people waiting for crosswalk signals seemed to be riveted by me. Perhaps they were wondering just what was so great about this poster that I seemed oblivious to the leaky pipes dripping questionable droplets on my head as I sliced at it.
One worker above my head answered the others in laughter: "La senora quires Gaga!"
Translation: "The lady wants Gaga!"
Oh, guapo, you have no idea, mehan! I thought to myself as I tried for 15 minutes, getting cuts and scrapes on my fingers, trying to pry up the edges and free the poster. But the harder I tried the worse it became, with the poster ripping itself up more than it was tearing away from the wall. It was stuck so very well that any attempt to peel it off just peeled off strips instead of the panels I wanted. (You can see in one of the side view images the poster where I tried in vain to tear it off the plywood wall.)
I had to give up. Believe me I hated to, but even CrazySkas knows when she's beaten. :haha:
So I settled for taking pictures of it to show all of you, and decided this:
If anyone has a good chainsaw, or likes to sneak around at 3am waiting for Swiffer Mops and a truck --
this rare street poster could be yours!
If not, then you can just rightclick and save all of my images of it for your pop hearts.
I, in the meantime, am going to google "street poster printers" and see what happens :haha:
Maybe I can haggle one directly from a source. These blasted gorgeous posters don't just make and hang themselves! :haha:
Thank you for reading my story of what I did today :)
---ChicaSkas
(that loca senora who quires Gaga)
