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If the Rock Center Christmas Tree is the equivalent of the Lincoln Memorial, then the Rock Center Statue of Atlas is the equivalent of the Jefferson Memorial.
It’s simply passed by and thought of as being WAY less cool than the guys who paint themselves silver and make whistle sounds with their mouth.
There are several things in life that we will simply never understand. One of which is the fact that people travel to NYC from all over the world to see the sights, particularly the Empire State Building, and then aren’t blown away by it.
They will usually look east from 42nd Street in Times Square and say, “Hey look, there’s the Empire State Building (in reference to the Chrysler Building)” and their friend will say “Yeup, there it is.” Then they will talk about how the man dressed in silver and covered in silver paint who does whistle noises as he moves is the coolest thing that they’ve ever seen — we’re pointing Midwestern/Bible Belt folks out most with this one.
Anyway, the point being is that people from all over the world know what the Empire State Building is, and the fact that you can go to the top of it to see one heck of an amazing view is a widely known worldwide fact. So why then, would the Empire State Building feel the need to place this billboard along the New Jersey Turnpike…
Especially when one considers that the visual that one has before the billboard is this…
And this is the visual that one has after the billboard is this.
Do the people at the Empire State Building not realize that they already, by default, are advertising to the folks who drive along that very spot? Or, are the people at the Empire State Building simply saying, “Hey all you tools in New Jersey, you’re too stupid to know that you can visit the top of this building, so please stop by and take a trip to the top, eh?
We will be the first to admit that we haven’t a clue as to what the new NBC series The Event is about, but with this advertisement stating, “a desperate act will start it” we assume that The Event is an entire series that was started, or inspired by, thanks to the horrific ending that Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof came up with for Lost.
Either that, or the McDonald’s number that that lady is wearing inspired it… YOWZA!!!
We’d like to state that for the most part we are pro-union workers and pro-union work. That said, whenever we pass a new building that is under construction, especially in New York City, we wonder what the motto of the construction worker’s union’s are.
Because the motto that tends to ring through our head is this: “Union labor, we build crappy looking buildings. Proudly!”
Yesterday afternoon we noticed that the huge and obnoxious billboard of Jay-Z and Mikhail Prokhorov toting the New Jersey Nets that claimed “Blueprint for Greatness” high up above Madison Square Garden was thankfully being painted over.
The quick removal of this utterly pointless billboard pretty much solidifies our opinion about the Nets — they’re not great enough to last more than one month in New York.