Very Black and White

I have a friend who is enamored of advertisements, commercials and promotional things in general.  Many a time when we are out and about, he would take some photograph of a billboard, say Calvin Klein or some such nonsense because of the some scantily clad drug addict looking "model".  I, on the other hand, read with absolute joy about the place (I believe it may have been in Brazil) where advertisements of any kind were banned.  It was simply thought to debase the public.  There are few things that I dislike more than the barrage in the city of gigantic paid advertisements that try to trick people in buying products which have no value and often endorsed by people (often "celebrities") who have even less value.  So, whenever I pass by a certain area downtown and look up at the space once occupied by painted signage (and now painted over in black and in white), I think and hope that others may soon follow.  Although I must say that there are some advertisements in memory which are quite spectacular, but I won't go into that now.

As plain as black and/or white.