Proof positive that Shawn Bentley can draw semi-straight lines and call it art way better than we can.
Our lines always get too straight or too irregular.
America’s Response Monument
This is “America’s Response Monument”. As you can see, it sits behind a tall fence at the World Trade Center. We aren’t certain as to why it is back there, but maybe it’s because the response that America did not do the best things after being attacked on 9/11? Just maybe…
Anyway, the monument’s base has the MOST wordy piece of information that we’ve ever seen on a monument.
It’s like someone asked “How do we fit ten plus years of savage brutality onto a stone ten foot wide and five feet high?” And then got the answer of “Very tiny letters. Lots of them. But we just won’t mention savage brutality.”
Freedom Tower April 2013
It’s been approximately two and a half months since we showcased One World Trade, aka the Freedom Tower. A lot has happened since we last visited.
The base of the southern side is being glassed and the spire is no longer sitting on the north side of the construction site.
In fact, it is scheduled to be topped off today.
The construction elevator that once hung on the outside of the western side of the building has been completely dismantled and the newly installed glass gives the building a Washington Monument sort of old/new construction look to it. Hopefully this will fade and blend in over time.
Meanwhile the eastern construction elevator still remains tall.
The building is an epic beast in size.
If you’d like to see what the Freedom Tower/1WTC looked like in previous months, click here for January 2012, here for February 2012, here for March 2012, here for April 2012, here for May 2012, here for June 2012, here for July 2012, here for August 2012, here for September 2012, here for October 2012 , here for November 2012, here for December 2012, here for January 2013, here for February 2013, and click here for an assortment of pics over the past three or so years.
World’s Largest Fishing Pole
This shot is from January of 2013. It’s an empty line dangling from the crane atop 1WTC aka the Freedom Tower.
It’s the equivalent to the world’s largest fishing pole.
Does the United States Censor The Internet?
Sometimes we wonder how free we actually are here in the United States, especially when it comes to the freedom of the internet.
We find it odd that there are always readily available working links to the bad things occurring at the hands of other governments, yet whenever stories like the one pictured on the CNN homepage come our way that discusses the bad deeds that our government does on our supposed behalf, we are met with an error message.
And it’s not just CNN, we find these “error” pages to be quite common across the board when it comes to articles about the really bad deeds done by the government. We wish that we could easily read them, but… something or someone usually makes it quite difficult and or impossible to do. We find it all very odd.