[video] A short documentary about the fading tradition of hand painted advertising.

[mattx]

http://vimeo.com/10562000

[beeswax]

I can't give thanks for this, so thanks. It's good to see this sort of tradition being preserved. I used to have an old drinking buddy who was a time-served painter, and after the smoking ban came in in Ireland a lot of the pubs were redecorated, but the breweries thought there was something missing, so he was called in to make the paintwork look as if it were nicotine stained. Plus ca change...