From a grimly fascinating piece on ambient advertising media in today’s media guardian:

“…increasingly, a higher premium will be placed on an environment ‘unpolluted’ by commercial messages. Like with nude bathing or public drinking in some societies, many people think product placement of this sort should be restricted to certain public spaces.”

Some parts of London are already like “message-parks” – full of the latest guerilla advertising and imagery. Commercially-backed or by an enterprising artist [and the line is fuzzy] every inch of structure and shelter in them is covered in messages and memes, fighting for the attention of the hub-hipster-virus hosts who are meant to hang out there.

Thos who create the messages and own the media of course reside, or aspire to reside in the whitewashed georgian elegance of Notting or Primrose Hills, untroubled by the eyenoise and spatial-spam they unload on the rest of us.

Space and quiet are getting more expensive – inflated by the invention of those who desire it most.