Jenny Burman Jenny Burman
 
A Los Angeles blog
from Echo Park

 
Bio | archive
RSS feed

Anti-Plumbean-ery

billboardimage.jpgChicken Corner's Plumbean Report celebrates the efforts of people who have used their houses as a medium to express their inner-selves -- beyond the inner-self that wants to fit neatly into neighborhood norms in housing. The inner-self that wants to turn their home into the Shark House or a Blue Bottle Palace. The inner self that can't help itself, in some cases. Those are Plumbean material.

Then along comes a marketing firm called Brainiacs from Mars and their evil-genius method for making a house look like a Plumbean, while doing the opposite: Turning said house into an Anti-Plumbean, a billboard to be precise. A billboard that has nothing to do with the inner lives of its inhabitants, except as regards financial distress. Yes, billboards now have inhabitants.

The ideas is this: People facing foreclosure can apply to Brainiacs to have their house turned into a billboard. If selected, Brainiacs will pay their mortgage as long as the house is a billboard. I don't know whether they get to vet the product, if it's other than Brainiacs.

Chicken Corner wonders whether billboard restrictions would inhibit such efforts. For example, in Echo Park, billboards in yards are not allowed. I assume the rule would extend to houses.

Marketing official David Le says the company painted its first house -- in Orange County -- last weekend and that they have received thousands of applications from Los Angeles County homeowners.

They're coming!


More by Jenny Burman:
Up close at Caine's Arcade
LAAS New Hope connection on block
More breaking news
Bear in tree
Polly want a better cage
Recent stories on LA Observed:
WeHo News goes away for awhile, comes back
Glendale ex-official stole from Montrose farmers market, DA says
Another media job open in LA: associate editor for Ms.
LA Times posts books editor opening with a new twist
Disney beats earnings estimates - even with 'John Carter' disaster
Previous story on Chicken Corner: Yes, you!

Next story on Chickn Corner: Assembly takes a stand against Trophy killer

New at LA Observed
Follow us on Twitter

On the Media Page
Go to Media
On the Politics Page
Go to Politics

LA Biz Observed
Arts and culture

Sign up for daily email from LA Observed

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner


Advertisement
Show Jenny some love