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they’re up. some of them anyway. there have been a few setbacks which, apparently, is quite common in the billboard business. inclement weather’s a big deal apparently. as you might imagine no-one wants to be putting posters up in the pissing rain. got back from prague this afternoon. But will have to return some time soon. got the 7.25am flight yesterday and just as I was being handed the keys for the rental car at prague airport andrew got a text from london saying that they might not all be up until tomorrow. we were due to fly back the next morning. except the sender of said text couldn’t be sure until the billboard people emerged from their morning meeting. two and half hours later we decided not to extend our stay until the following evening – mainly because of the cost – and drove up to the E55, on the off chance we’d find something worth documenting. fortunately they had put up up the biggest image, pictures of which i’ll be posting as soon as i get a chance. it’s pretty impressive ! what’s particularly interesting though is the fact that it’s on a very fast highway – the main route out of cz to germany. as such, any roadside images – they’re fairly sporadic – tend to make a very fleeting impression. as for text, it’s all very much in your face, for obvious reasons – no time for subtleties at 140 km per hour. however, despite all the discussions about text size etc (see below) i think the text on our poster is probably still too small. the road’s just too fast for it. but when night fall’s it could be different. the billboard’s illuminated and it’s very large – looms over the highway. unfortunately we didn’t actually get to see it at night. we got busted by czech police for parking on the hard shoulder. another problem, there’s nowhere else to park. so that was that. last time we were in cz we got busted for driving the wrong way up a one way street. which was nice.