Signs

Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss, left, hold a press conference in front of an illegal sign on the side of a buiilding which is on the corner of Overland and Pico in Los Angeles. Their backdrop: a “Gap color redefined” ad that features a blonde model reclining across several stories of an office building at 10680 W. Pico Blvd., just above signs advertising the first-floor Citibank. “It’s visual blight, a distraction to motorists, just treating the architecture of the city as a canvas,” Weiss said during a brief press conference.

April 10, 2008