Originally Posted by
The_Doctor
Nice. I bet it's true more often than not, too. (And I bet the few vinyl labels I was once given by David McGuiness helped me sell a few lasers too, because they looked the part as well as beign useful warnings). When I was part of various squatted gigs, doing the electrics, I often hammed up the danger element a bit, partly because it was fun to do that, and partly because if people remember it, they really do take care. I never got into the rave scene, by that time I wanted a quiet life, but I did go to at least two raves. The same thing was in those too, a sense of danger. I think people actually want it, it's part of the thrill of being there. That whole 'industrial' scene, and the use of high-vis jackets and weird goggles and all, it's all part of that same thing, the idea of being safe in a dangerous situation. It struck enough people as cool that it has become a major influence on club scenes worldwide. There's a seven floored derelict building here that I have had plenty of fun in at times past, (and my one really long poem is about that place, but I'll need a far more appropriate situation before I post that..) and that place had stairs with no rails, no glass, no walls, floors with holes, doorways to oblivion over rubble tens of feet below. People have died there, many times. But not once apparently did anyone die during a drunken rave. And it's held several. I guess danger alerts people's senses. Which does (at least) two things: scares them into takeing care, generally, and, makes fun even more fun. I actually regret not going to one of those raves. I've seen that building gaunt and empty, many times, but I've never seen it psychedilcally alive and full of people. Totally different perspective..
I will now bow and step aside so that topics might resume.
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I think I am, too... Keith, I think you're right because the warnings are solid, they don't change, they come with clarity and act equally to all who see them, barring misreadings of text. A lot of work goes into symbol design. I make the point because at gigs if trouble flared, one person, pr action, might stop it, but another might aggravate it while trying to stop it. And it wasn't even predictable, so Andy is also right, sometimes it's just best to assume worst case and plan or act accordingly. I don't mean going over the top, but at least that way we can go the extra defensive mile, and make one good action that usually settles it without further risk. One thing I try to do in any of my designs of find the cheapest 'overengineered' way to protect the rest so I don't have to worry about that so much.
