about ten years ago, the Whitney Museum set up a life-sized, temporary replica of Hopper’s “Nighthawks” in the former retail space now dubbed “The Flatiron Prow Art Space”.
Some people were upset at the giant white lettering proclaiming that designation across the windows, saying it spoiled the look of the installation, while others walked past, obliviously texting on their phones anyway.
The people in the painting were flat cardboard cutouts.
That means you had to take pictures from just the right angles…
but still, you could catch them from different viewpoints, kind of bringing it to life.
This has to have been taken during WW II or very shortly thereafter. The gun turret, “YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU”, and the fact that the Fuller Building didn’t open until 1929 backs up my reasoning.
I stand corrected it’s probably sometime during WW I.
I stupidly didn’t do the most basic fact check when I took 1929 as the opening date for the building (I thought something didn’t seem right about it, but as I said; stupidity).
During the war, the United Cigar Company allowed its store to be shared by a US Army Recruiting station, and also became an agency for selling war bonds.
One article, if you do want to read more about it:
The two spoiler boxes contain a puzzle and its solution I’ve copied directly from:
ORIGINAL LOGIC AND VARIETY PROBLEMS (ISSN 1533-8274) April 2007, No. 122.
Published by:
Penny Press, Inc.
6 Prowitt Street,
Norwalk, CT 06855-1220
As close to the formatting of the puzzle and its work sheet, as it appears in the magazine, as I can get (the work sheet is exact).
VARIETY LOGIC: SQUARED SQUARES
My daughter, Hannah, has just turned four ! We marked the occasion with a huge birthday extravaganza, which was attended by many friends and family members and featured pony rides and a visit from a clown. What thrilled Hannah more that (sic) anything else was the mountain of presents she received, which included a rocking horse, some high-tech gadgetry, various dolls, and a set of blocks. Although I thought four was a little old for a child to receive blocks, Hannah developed a strange fascination with them. The 25 identical square blocks contained only the letters of the word “square,” with a different letter on each of the six sides. While watching Hannah play with her blocks, I noticed that she had arranged them in a five-by-five square, such that the top sides in each diagonal, horizontal, and vertical row of five blocks contained five different letters. As I looked upon this scene with stunned pride, Hannah gave me a quick wink and wandered outdoors to her Power Wheels. From the information provided, can you determine the letter displayed on the block in each position (1 through 25 in the illustration)?
1. The letters facing up on blocks 10, 19, 11, 4,
23, and 17 were S, Q, U, A, R, E, in that
order.
2. The same letter was facing up on blocks 9
and 25. The same letter was facing up on
blocks 7 and 15. Different letters were facing
up on blocks 14 and 20.
3. The letter facing up on block 5 comes later
in the word “square” than does the letter on
block 16.
4. The letter A was facing up on exactly five
blocks; the letter S was not facing up on
more than four blocks.
The Solution to the puzzle.
Hints from me:
1. This is an elimination game.
2. As boring as it may seem, read, and absorb the meaning of, everything in the introduction and then follow the four clues.
It’s a fair puzzle in that there is only following logic to the solution.
Have fun.
From yesterday…. Thanks, Nighthawks, Allexi, and P51Strega for pointing out that the color was washed out in that photo of the Crayola building, and showing another view.
I was intrigued by the idea of a whole building labelled the “Crayola Experience” and Googled it… after all, how much can you do with a crayon?
Turns out, more than I thought.
…
It’s a paid attraction… there are FIVE of them, each in a different state, where for something like $28 each (!!!) for adults, less for the kiddies, you and the family can spend a few hours wandering among giant crayons, plastic waterways, huge vending machines and other brightly colored amenities….
Coloring pictures, melting wax into different shapes, designing a wrapper for your very own crayon, and having all sorts of unexpected fun with Crayolas…
and of course go to the on-premises retail store and buy … what else?… crayons.
Or coloring “activity sets”, or what look to be about four-foot-long Crayola plushies, in case you’ve always dreamt of snuggling with a big furry purple crayon… in which case maybe you need a little help, but who am I to judge?
In case you can’t make it to Texas, Mall of America, Orlando Florida, or one of the other two, you can order online from the store … natch.
….
I actually watched a short video of a family enjoying it.
There was a giant real crayon displayed near the entrance that weighed 3/4 of a TON.I think they said 15 feet long.
Blue, in case you wonder.
No I’m not going to post it. I know nobody else here is that crazy.
We grow mostly large cherry tomatos. We had a flush of ripening and my gardener suggested we freeze the surplus. Over the past couple of weeks it has worked very well. We are still harvesting the last of this year’s bounty as needed, and we have a couple of gallons frozen.
,
Interesting fact!
A doggy nose print is as individual as a people fingerprint.
And that looks like a very good nose. 🙂
Not too dry?
the things i learn from reading the comics! thanks, 3.
“You gonna eat that whole cookie? By yourself?”
.
Commiserating about the heavy crosstown traffic at this hour…
and this #$%&! uneven brick pavement.
LOL
ships that pass in the night—or day
,
I remember posting about this…
about ten years ago, the Whitney Museum set up a life-sized, temporary replica of Hopper’s “Nighthawks” in the former retail space now dubbed “The Flatiron Prow Art Space”.
Some people were upset at the giant white lettering proclaiming that designation across the windows, saying it spoiled the look of the installation, while others walked past, obliviously texting on their phones anyway.
The people in the painting were flat cardboard cutouts.
That means you had to take pictures from just the right angles…
but still, you could catch them from different viewpoints, kind of bringing it to life.
Now I’m wondering about that big white dot across the street.
A picture link to an article about it.
Oh wow.
It’s an actual thing.
Or was, in 2013.
This has to have been taken during WW II or very shortly thereafter. The gun turret, “YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU”, and the fact that the Fuller Building didn’t open until 1929 backs up my reasoning.
going by the ladies’ dresses, my guess it was shot in 1915 or so, maybe earlier.
I stand corrected it’s probably sometime during WW I.
I stupidly didn’t do the most basic fact check when I took 1929 as the opening date for the building (I thought something didn’t seem right about it, but as I said; stupidity).
Fuller. Bldg. was built in 1902.
Yes… WWI.
During the war, the United Cigar Company allowed its store to be shared by a US Army Recruiting station, and also became an agency for selling war bonds.
One article, if you do want to read more about it:
(edited in later: I did not add the code to make that link huge… it somehow adds its own formatting and puts in extra words. I can’t figure out how!)
Thanks for the history lesson. 🙂 🙂
Cool!
The two spoiler boxes contain a puzzle and its solution I’ve copied directly from:
ORIGINAL LOGIC AND VARIETY PROBLEMS (ISSN 1533-8274) April 2007, No. 122.
Published by:
Penny Press, Inc.
6 Prowitt Street,
Norwalk, CT 06855-1220
VARIETY LOGIC: SQUARED SQUARES
My daughter, Hannah, has just turned four ! We marked the occasion with a huge birthday extravaganza, which was attended by many friends and family members and featured pony rides and a visit from a clown. What thrilled Hannah more that (sic) anything else was the mountain of presents she received, which included a rocking horse, some high-tech gadgetry, various dolls, and a set of blocks. Although I thought four was a little old for a child to receive blocks, Hannah developed a strange fascination with them. The 25 identical square blocks contained only the letters of the word “square,” with a different letter on each of the six sides. While watching Hannah play with her blocks, I noticed that she had arranged them in a five-by-five square, such that the top sides in each diagonal, horizontal, and vertical row of five blocks contained five different letters. As I looked upon this scene with stunned pride, Hannah gave me a quick wink and wandered outdoors to her Power Wheels. From the information provided, can you determine the letter displayed on the block in each position (1 through 25 in the illustration)?
1. The letters facing up on blocks 10, 19, 11, 4,
23, and 17 were S, Q, U, A, R, E, in that
order.
2. The same letter was facing up on blocks 9
and 25. The same letter was facing up on
blocks 7 and 15. Different letters were facing
up on blocks 14 and 20.
3. The letter facing up on block 5 comes later
in the word “square” than does the letter on
block 16.
4. The letter A was facing up on exactly five
blocks; the letter S was not facing up on
more than four blocks.
Hints from me:
1. This is an elimination game.
2. As boring as it may seem, read, and absorb the meaning of, everything in the introduction and then follow the four clues.
It’s a fair puzzle in that there is only following logic to the solution.
Have fun.
My head exploded.
I think I’ll rest my brain with the optical illusion again….
,
I can’t look at this too long.
It’s not only word puzzles that can make my head explode.
that’s two explosions—all in one day!
One more will make par for the course.
On the other hand, I could look at it all day long. It’s mesmerizing.
That may explain something.
Yes. (But, what?)
Thanks, Cleo.
Unfortunately, even the fellow on TV isn’t really making sense…
So Clara and Claude are even farther from understanding.
….
It’s OK, guys… a WiFi hotspot is for sharing your connection with other devices…
perhaps someone’s phone, if that person isn’t authorised to log in to it.
I think you have enough problems understanding getting a connection for yourselves.
….
As for Cleo, if it’s neither edible nor useful as a weapon, she doesn’t much care.
From yesterday…. Thanks, Nighthawks, Allexi, and P51Strega for pointing out that the color was washed out in that photo of the Crayola building, and showing another view.
I was intrigued by the idea of a whole building labelled the “Crayola Experience” and Googled it… after all, how much can you do with a crayon?
Turns out, more than I thought.
…
It’s a paid attraction… there are FIVE of them, each in a different state, where for something like $28 each (!!!) for adults, less for the kiddies, you and the family can spend a few hours wandering among giant crayons, plastic waterways, huge vending machines and other brightly colored amenities….
Coloring pictures, melting wax into different shapes, designing a wrapper for your very own crayon, and having all sorts of unexpected fun with Crayolas…
and of course go to the on-premises retail store and buy … what else?… crayons.
Or coloring “activity sets”, or what look to be about four-foot-long Crayola plushies, in case you’ve always dreamt of snuggling with a big furry purple crayon… in which case maybe you need a little help, but who am I to judge?
In case you can’t make it to Texas, Mall of America, Orlando Florida, or one of the other two, you can order online from the store … natch.
….
I actually watched a short video of a family enjoying it.
There was a giant real crayon displayed near the entrance that weighed 3/4 of a TON.I think they said 15 feet long.
Blue, in case you wonder.
No I’m not going to post it. I know nobody else here is that crazy.
couldn’t resist, Susan…
beat me to it
I’m pretty quick when it comes to posting pictures. It must be all the birthday parties over the years….
that was a challenge, if i ever heard one!
Yer darn tootin’ it was!
Is that Pasquale from “Rose is Rose” dreaming to peel and melt it?
You mean the little tyke in front of the showcase? I guess it could be!
Well… I guess I helped bring out the sheer number of crazy people here….
Though the visible portion of a buried attribute is usually far smaller than the total.
I probably just scratched the surface.
Thats a lot of wax!
cheeseburger
tonight’s dinner! using the last of our home grown tomatoes
We grow mostly large cherry tomatos. We had a flush of ripening and my gardener suggested we freeze the surplus. Over the past couple of weeks it has worked very well. We are still harvesting the last of this year’s bounty as needed, and we have a couple of gallons frozen.
I think that im going to have a crabby patty instead.
Crab-cakes in a burger bun.
Coleslaw instead of lettuce.
cleo!! that’s too much information!!