THE LINGERING SOUNDS OF SELLING BY THE FREEWAY 
Almost a week after the daylong feeder road-side furniture sale they held on the abandoned grounds of the former Landmark Chevrolet next to I-45 North near the West Gulfbank exit, wacdesignstudio designers and guerrilla marketers Scott Cartwright and Jenny Lynn Weitz-Amaré Cartwright were still feeling the effects: “We were there for nine hours, thankfully it was cloudy… but the sound pollution really affected one of us to the point that even today our head and bodies still hurt… can you imagine how hard of a job road workers have when building or fixing the streets?” [Swamplot inbox; previously on Swamplot]
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That’s why commercial development lines the freeway and the few locations residential is adjacent, there are sound walls.
Either way residential homes are shielded.
A notable exception is all the recent residential that has sprung up right on 288– lofts and townhoues whose picture windows look out on the ever busier lanes of the South Freeway
Oh goody-
More self-absorbed, “look-at-me” types
peddling their stuff along the freeway.
Some call it “guerrilla marketing”, but if I
pulled onto someone else’s property and started hawking my wares, I’d be concerned that it would be called TRESPASSING. Have the owner’s permission?
Not clever, not “guerrilla”, just
“artistes” making an ugly backdrop even uglier. No sale.
Not creative. Not innovative. Not “cutting edge”. Not deserving of ANY media coverage. Just blight atop blight.
Follow our laws and PAY to market like most of us. Why cheat?
On top of that, pedaling very un-original designs….
The Scandinavians may want to have a talk about stealing their existing minimalist designs out of wood….
“We were there for nine hours, thankfully it was cloudy… but the sound pollution really affected one of us to the point that even today our head and bodies still hurt… can you imagine how hard of a job road workers have when building or fixing the streets?â€
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^ I’ve never known a construction worker or musician to have that problem. These folks probably have hypersensitive hearing, which could be genetic or could be a symptom of either past environmental stimuli or various diseases/disorders. It’s also possible that they’re pussies.