Boston Will Never Forget
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As part of a guerrilla marketing campaign for the television cartoon, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the Cartoon Network placed dozens of blinking gizmos, called Mooninites, in ten cities, including Boston. In nine of those cities, the blinking electronic devices were taken for what they were: underground advertising. In Boston, however, a terrorism alert was sounded, and parts of the city were shut down while the police tried to figure out if the Mooninites were bombs or not. These 38 gizmos had been in Boston for several weeks before the authorities finally noticed them on January 31st.
The two men who were hired to place the devices around Boston were arrested for perpetuating a terrorist hoax, but were later released because the law requires that you have the intent of creating a terrorist hoax, which these two men did not have. In the aftermath, the head of the Cartoon Network resigned, and Turner Broadcasting, which owns the Cartoon Network, paid the City of Boston million for its trouble.
Many people in Boston were upset by what the Cartoon Network did. Many other people were angry because Boston police took six hours to figure out that these gizmos were innocuous marketing devices. And when it was finally determined that the Mooninites were harmless, Boston officials blamed everyone but themselves.
Anyway, I spotted this "Boston Will Never Forget" sign posted on the side of a building in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington, DC. Best I can figure, the sign is part of an underground campaign to remind people how easy it is to react first and think later.
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Hanna-Barbera Studios, December 1997
Image by Fred Seibert
This photograph is the last all-studio portrait taken at Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. Time Warner had bought Turner Broadcasting (owner of HB) and folded the studio into Warner Bros. Animation. WBA chief Jean MacCurdy made the decision to fold HB. Eventually, it resurrected as Cartoon Network Studios. Luckily, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera were able to sit for this last portrait of the company they founded.
1 Jim Hearn
2 Paula LaFond
3 Jim Stenstrum
4 Mark Lewis
5 Steve Swaja
6 Vaughn Tada
7 Carlos Lemos
8 Nora Johnson
9 Vincent Davis
10 Paul McAvoy
11 Maxwell Atoms
12 Chris Bracher
13 Steve Marmel
14 Mike Ryan
15 Robert Alvarez
16 Patricia Gatz
17 Jeff Collins
18 Ed Collins
19 Carlton Clay
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21 Hugh Saunders
22 Sergio
23 Gilbert Quesada
24 Paula Lafond
25 Gary Olson
26 Al Gmuer
27 Renaldo Jara Jara
28 Sandy Ojeda
29 Susan DeChristofaro
30 Mimi Magnuson
31 Harry Nicholson
32 Mary-Ellen Bauder
33 Louis Cuck
34 Marc Perry
35 Linda Barry
36 Pat Foley
37 Kerry Iverson
38 Paul Douglas
39 Julie Humbert
40 Jim Moore
41 Tim Iverson
42 Van Partible
43 Bodie Chandler
44 Joseph A. Bova
45 I can't count
46 Keith Copsin
47 Kris Lindquist
48 William Parrish
49 Colette Sunderman
50 Carol Iverson
51 Nancy Grimaldi
52 Davis Doi
53 Melissa Lugar
54 Joanne Halcon
55 Nelda Ridley
56 Diane Kianski
57 Sandy Benenati
58 Barbara Krueger
59 Alison Leopold
60 Linda Moore
61 Diana Stolpe
62 Eleanor Medina
63 Janet Mazzoti
64 Genndy Tartakovsky
65 Craig McCraken
66 Jean MacCurdy
67 Joe Barbera
68 Maggie Roberts
69 Frederick Flintstone
70 Bill Hanna
71 Iwao Takamoto
72 Wanda Smith
73 Paul Rudish
74 Karen Greslie
75 Andy Bialk
76 Chris Battle
77 Nancy Sue Lark
78 Michael Shapiro
79 Zita Lefebvre
80 Brett Varon
81 Sultan Pepper
82 Craig Kellman
83 Luz Leon
84 Lara Sheunemann
85 Diana Ritchey
86 John McIntyre
87 Pat Lawrence
88 Amy Wagner
89 Brian Miller
90 Victoria McCollum
91 Rob Romero
92 Sharra Gage
93 Charlie Desrochers
94 Iraj Paran
95 Sami Rank
96 Jason Butler Rote
97 Liza Ann Warren
98 Chris Savino
99 Scott Setterberg
100 Donna Castricone
101 Sue Mondt
102 Martin Ansolabehere
103 Kevin Kaliher
104 Summer Wells
105 Heather Jackson
106 Ray Garcia
* Photo supplied by Chris Battle,
kindly identified by Chris Battle, Eric Homan, Marc Melocchi, Fred Seibert & Amy Wagner
Las Vegas - New York New York
Image by Bobasonic
Keep watching the kids cartoon "Wonder Pets". This photo of mine may be used in the cartoon as a backdrop soon !!
This is a great website .. www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=montecarlolasvegas-lasvegas-.... The site has lots of facts and stats on buildings all over the world. The stats they have on buildings is massive! .....
This NY-NY is the 2nd tallest hotel and 4th tallest building in LV as of April 2007, and is 161m high and built in 1997 with 49 floors. Architect: Neil Gaskin.
The Empire State Building and Chrysler Building sections actually have to be called the Empire Tower and Chrysler Tower. Because of copyright issues they can't name those buildings the same as the famous landmarks in New York. The hotel rooms are inside a cluster of false New York skyscrapers which form a true skyscraper in their own right. Among the depicted towers are the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building. A ten-level garage provides parking for guests. The hotel rooms are located in separate "towers" with separate elevator banks; these towers are copied or based on New York City buildings, such as Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Century Condominiums, Manhattan Municipal Building, Sony Tower and others. The hotel motto is "New York New York - The Greatest City In Las Vegas". The casino is critically acclaimed as one of the most prestigious in the city. Like New York City's Empire State Building, the hotel's Empire Tower was the tallest building in the city in the early 2000's.
The Thief!
Image by z5
An old, framed cartoon drawn by Tom Carlisle, formerly of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. Date of drawing unknown, other than 11-2. Taken to black and white, sharpened and cropped. Apologies for the reflection of the glass up top. See other photos for more current, aged paper and frame. Carlisle was an assistant to Ding Darling, famed long-time cartoonist for the Register from the 1910s-1940s.
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