My company, TOWN RESIDENTIAL, has launched an exciting, unique and engaging marketing campaign. Our company slogan is: “Our neighborhoods define us as much as we define them”. Taking this to heart and to a higher branding level, TOWN has embarked on a 90 day campaign: LookUpNY.
TOWN is encouraging the public to interact with the company’s website by posting photos of interesting buildings, facades, street scenes, anything that speaks New York to them. We have so many landmarks, so many pre-war buildings with amazing sculptures, setbacks, cornices and spires. However, do most visitors and for that matter denizens actually see this beauty. The answer is a resounding NO. You have to look up, as in LookUpNY. That’s not to say that New York is all about what’s up in the air. I have been scrolling through the hundreds of photos already submitted and there are snippets of neighborhoods, parks, statues, landscapes, seascapes and more; After all New York is a pretty big city!
I strongly suggest you visit http://www.townrealestate.com/lookupny/ and look at the fabulous photos, check out the daily quiz question about the photo of the day in the Gallery.
This is MY blog so you can guess this is heading someplace other than the TOWN web site. I asked Murray to give me some photos I could submit to TOWN and who knows maybe he would win. All I wanted was to go on the helicopter ride around the City which is part of the first prize. I picked the ones I wanted to enter and was about to file all of them on my computer when it occurred to me what would make a better FAB FOTO FRIDAY than several of his spectacular shots of The Chrysler Building. This striking landmark, this icon of the City deserves a blog post of its own.
I did some quick research and just a couple of remarkable facts are:
Ground breaking: September 1928
Built at the pace of 4 floors per week – no workers died on the job
Originally designed to be 975 ‘ – 125’ added when the spire topped off the building. The spire was built secretly inside the building and then hoisted onto to the dome and lowered into the 68th floor . The remaining sections of the spire took a mere 90 minutes to bolt in place.
Built to house Chrysler Headquarters, there are many homages to the auto industry; radiator caps, hub cap design, setbacks with abstract images of automobiles, gargoyles like hood mascots anchor the upper corners of the building.
Briefly the highest building in the world until the Empire State building eclipsed it.
BUT enough words, take a look at the pictures!
Art Deco Architecture
The Chrysler Building at Night
This is MY CITY
Reflections
Hood Ornament in the Sky
Two Iconic Figures
Nacho and the Chrysler Bldg
All photos courtesy of Murray Head
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Movies That Make You Cry
Posted in Amuse-bouche du jour, BY THE WAY, From My Point of View - Personal commentary on Movies and Books, Smooth or Crunchy, tagged Affair to Remember, Cary Grant, Christmas, Deborah Kerr, Empire State Building, Hollywood, Turner, Turner Classic Movies on October 2, 2012| 6 Comments »
Cary Grant (Photo credit: twm1340)
I just walked into my apartment after having dinner with a dear friend who told me all about her wonderfully romantic vacation. My husband had left the TV on in the den and of course it was tuned to ONE OF THE ONLY TWO stations he watches – TCM (Turner Classic Movies).
And what did I see? OMG I had the good fortune to walk in on the last scene of An Affair to Remember!!!! OMG (again) that scene just rips your heart out and then puts it back in its appropriate place…
Cary Grant was beyond gorgeous in this movie. Perfectly groomed, hair with a part as straight as I-95, impeccably dressed in his own clothes always sporting French cuffs and there he is pacing nervously around Deborah Kerr‘s living room. She is posed and poised on the couch dressed in red (after all it is Christmas) and a red coverlet covers her lower body. Well I’m crying as soon as he starts carrying on about how he never went to the Empire State Building and she plays it so cool yet conveying through some facial expressions the tumult of emotions at play in her mind and heart.
Tears are dropping down my cheeks and I know that the crescendo of this emotional scene has yet to unfold but it definitely on its way. The shawl, the confession of waiting and waiting, the deep looks exchanged between the two former lovers….He moves to the door and in true Hollywood pull-at-your-heartstrings style, he stops and turns for one last look.
And then slowly in perfect timing, he explains to Terry why he didn’t take money for the painting…I’m bawling now, sobbing at each passing moment. The climax is heartfelt and Nickie’s face is a road map of discovery, pain, realization and heartbreak.
What movies make you cry? I have some more, but I think An Affair to Remember is my all-time-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry movie. Would love to hear from some of my readers which movies cause their eyes to fill up!
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