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May 27, 2005
TV Culture
I stopped by the Time Warner Center this evening and found tourists swarming around various Time Warner TV exhibits. Sets from Friends and Seinfeld are reproduced on two floors and costumes from various prime time shows are scattered about the hallways. The whole thing is sort of creepy and corporate -- the same way that tours of CNN studios or talk show sets seem like big ads. You start to wonder if the tourists realize that they are paying to see the real version of something that's not real in the first place. The out-of-towners were eating it up, though. One over-eager twenty something was gleefully quoting from episodes of Friends while taking pictures of Joey and Chandler's leather armchairs (omigod!!). I almost puked. I thought a picture of this group of friends taking pictures of the Friends set might be interesting -- perhaps a little silly, though. Still, I found a few interesting subjects for my Flickr-induced photo frenzy. Here they are (click to see the larger sizes).
On an entirely different note, I was looking at the Time Warner Center site and noticed a curious photo of the bronze sculpture. The male one with the, um, appendage? There seem to be a few first graders hanging off of it here (here's a direct link).
Posted by csageday at May 27, 2005 01:34 AM
Comments
In your first photo it almost looks like the people are sitting and watching a video of NYC on a big screen TV. Very appropriate.
Posted by: d at May 27, 2005 02:46 PM