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Build Your Own Cityscape
Hoagy writes "Many friends think I've moved when I show them this picture. I've constructed a lit model of midtown Manhattan to fill an otherwise unspectactular view out of our kitchen window. The website details the construction process and how to design and build your own. The city lights also automatically turn on/off via an X10 cronjob on my home Linux server." Nice hack job.
It would last about 5 minutes. Little kids find a little city just perfect for sight-seeing. The problem is that they like the godzillia view...
1. What ugly view did it cover up?
and
2. What did the neighbors build to keep from having to look at the back of the project?
The city lights also automatically turn on/off via an X10 cronjob on my home Linux server. /. effect's been unleashed on that poor server.
Methinks they'll be off for awhile under once the
...gets my vote for the "Too Much Time On His Hands Award of the Week."
Bonus points for bringing a Slashdotting upon himself.
~Philly
Also have a setup where it would look like cars were in front of my house, put shadows in my windows, and have cron job play music on Friday and Saturday nights to make it look like I have a life. Now THAT would have to look convincing.
My window is covered by a big black peice of fabric to block out light....
What's so great about the outside...
What day of the week is it?
Weatherbug says it's really nice outside...
Hmm... lemme check weather.com to see if it's gotten cloudy again so I can get my mail without getting sunburned....
Do you charge $11.95 for tiny grilled chese sandwichs in your kitchen now?s
Buy your fav baseball player's steroid-merchandise!
you added Godzilla rampaging through...
Well the grass is always greener on the other side? I live in the suburbs.. now WTF do i want?!
Carpe meam simiam!
Heh. Neat idea, but I prefer his approach. The nice thing about his is that it is stereoscopic. It's easier to settle into the illusion because even at a distance, the Plasma Screen will be noticable.
:)
However, what I really do like about your idea is that I could play with different ideas, like have stars streaking by like my house is at warp. I know, that's pretty geeky, but it'd be a fun project.
"Derp de derp."
P.S. The cityscapes in the background on Connan and Leno and Letterman aren't real either.
What a relief! Here I thought Dave Letterman was going to hurt someone when he flung his notecards out of the window.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
...but then again....
:)
Dave Letterman and Jay Leno have ENTIRE ART DEPARTMENTS and UNION LABOR to build those sets.
This guy had the gumption to do it on his on, so why the hell not give credit where credit is due? What's so damn special about your meaningless trott across this fine globe of ours?
Retarded fucking killjoys like you are what keeps this board so entertaining.
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
The city lights also automatically turn on/off via an X10 cronjob on my home Linux server
:)
You know what? Tell your X10 cronjob to take a break. I think we're gonna turn off your lights for you tonight... no no, don't thank us. It's our pleasure.
.... in fact, you don't really have much of a choice now, do you
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Well, if that site is also hosted on his "home linux server" then it wont be running any cron jobs for a little while.
:wq
Another good reason for news agencies (or anyone) to use a fake backdrop is so they don't get views like this.
[news for me, stuff that doesn't matter]
Right out of Resident Evil (the movie), as soon as I saw the pic, I thought; How many stories below ground do they live? =)
.:[MiE-g0nk]:.
Would it be in bad tase for the kid next door to fly his model airplanes into this?
(B) + (D) + (B) + (D) = (K) + (&)
I know a few people who got laid off in the last year or two, and they turned into total bums during that period.
Are you implying that is a bad thing? Its my dream! (except for the no money part)
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
...you got yourself one fucking ugly view of cardboard cut-outs!!! Way to go.
:)
TrailerScape
What he needs now is something like a small model airplane ... go across every once in a while
Well, it *is* model of midtown Manhattan, it'll take some fancy work to have the plane vanish in a fireball every once in a while without damaging the model.
P.S.
Before anyone flames me for my sense of humor, I live near NYC and the fighter jets that orbit the city fly right over my house. I even witnessed a pair of fighters zoom in on a passenger jet, one at point-blank range, and escort it to the airport. Freaky.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Bugs Bunny did this years ago by nailing a picture of an island up to the side of a ship luring the entire crew to jump overboard to try to get to it :).
box cutter (already had)
Hmm, terrorist in training?
Maybe he would have had better luck at a company with a name. I hear that having a name is pretty important when it comes to bringing in revenue.
Fewer homes that look exactly like the one next to it except for the a slightly different shade of beige on the vinyl siding?
Why?
Is someone to change his cronjob so the city scape flashes "CRASH N BURN" across a few adjacent buildings ;)
(Obreference)
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Internet Explorer (n): Another bug -- that is, a feature that can't be turned off -- in Windows.
I have a view of uptown manhattan from my window... only cost me $1350 a month. I guess your way is cheaper. And I can't see the Empire State or Chrysler Building.
;)
I can see the Frederick Douglas Houses tho..