There a great deal of concern about automation eliminating human jobs. Spinning a sign seems to boost the attention that people give to signs by about 80%. Sign spinners are paid about $50 to 150 per ...

They're a familiar site at many a busy intersection: the helicopter, the kick-flip, the Bruce Lee - all manner of swirling, twirling and spinning "tricks" to draw drivers' attention to a new ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — You’ve seen them at intersections and outside strip malls spinning an arrow-shaped sign and trying to grab the attention of drivers and passers-by. Turns out, there’s more to it than ...

ATLANTA — We’re less than 200 days away from the Summer Olympics where some of the best athletes in the world will compete for gold. But middle-January brings a lesser-known world competition for sign ...

“We hate it when you call it sign twirlers,” says Caleb Jordan, who has worked in the industry six years and is the general manager for AArrow Advertising. Come blistering heat or pouring rain, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, Clint Hartman, a sign spinner from Portland, Ore., performs a routine in downtown Las ...

There’s a whole taxonomy of people on any given street who want something from you: the clipboard activists, the donation fund folks who are too aggressive, the lady selling bad art, the creepy free ...