Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is coming September 6th and every single car of the Grand Central Shuttle was covered with ads for it. Mary asked, I wonder how much this ad campaign costs? My thought? A lot!
It’s been unbearably hot this past week and one cool place to go is the movies. Three of the grandkids and I went to the movie theatre to see Toy Story 4. We took turns sitting in the chair of this cardboard commercial for an upcoming movie.
When I was a kid I loved reading Charles Addams cartoons in a big book we had in our house.
At the marketplatz- plastic chicken on top of the truck. No question what’s being sold here. (Apologies Stef, don’t look)
Waiting for recycle truck pick-up, New York City. Sent by my sister 7-4-16 via cell phone.
What a great find. Thanks, Mary.
In keeping with this week’s theme -a NYC Transit worker illustrates Transition–
but two images required.
Spotted by my sister who alerted me as to what he was doing. 
Tonight was the annual viewing of the Harold Ramis’ classic Groundhog Day movie. If you follow the blog, you know how much my family enjoys this holiday. (No gifts required)
I noticed in the opening credits how different the 1993 skyline looks.
The updated version will have to be another post. And I’ll need a helicopter ride to capture the same angle.
A screen shot of my computer screen shows the old skyline as it appeared before all the advertisements.
Just two years ago there was an article written by Bob Bauder about this issue- Skyline-defiling signs targeted by council chief. “Harris said the signs, including company names and logos, clutter the city skyline and detract from its aesthetic splendor.”
And author Charles Rosenblum’s blog post Under a Bad Sign– Pittsburgh Architectual Club weighs in on the issue.
My son Matthew in a Croatian TV Commercial
It’s just 30 seconds long. Not sure if the link will work.
Reminded me of the toothpaste billboard in Croatia. You might remember it, the supposed workers hanging on the side of the building in Zagreb.
Today at the Easton Mall, Maura (5) asked me what the men on the ladders were doing? Huh?
I looked up, then pulled out the phone. Thanks Maura.
Good eyes. I might have missed them. They are 3D in person. Here they look flat.
Easton Mall before the crowds arrived. iPhone camera is all I had in my pocket.
Saw this Sunday afternoon in the Strip District on the sidewalk in front of Art of Steel Ltd.
Three of the kids were playing in the sandbox and backyard tent when we saw and heard this blimp. They were really excited. It was going back and forth and all around. I had seen it earlier on Polaris Parkway but thought it was a tethered balloon for a used car place or something like that.
I shot the first with the phone and the second with the Canon 5D. I think the phone pic looks pretty good. But the larger file could withstand a crop to read the blimp’s lettering which we could not with our eye.
So it’s beer, day two!
And the advertising said:
BUDWEISER
Designate a Driver
(A crop from the photo above)
