Posted on 12/18/2008 8:24:00 AM PST by Carlucci
Thank you for making me spout manicotti onto my keyboard.
I am definitely stealing that line!
No outside walkways, especially not heavy ship-like steel as shown in the pic, on any of the blimps in use in the USA.
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I am going with female alien invaders also.
From planet Hillary.
So HOW did the photographer get so high up???
You could have just asked the manager of that Dave & Buster.
Yeah...but they seem to be a bit too far west and they are too tall...
Franchises like Dave and Buster's are typically decorated the same. Everything arriving on the truck is put in its designated place. The manager is unlikely to know anything about the origin of a picture.
For instance, Outback Steakhouses look the same all over the world. The signs aren't even translated into the local language.
Unless a prerequisite for managing an entertainent facility is a degree in Art History, I am quite certain that would have been a huge waste of time.
Another catwalk above the subject.
Roger that.
Like Good Taco (Taco Bueno) used to have pics of Pancho & Zapta sitting with their feet on something. That something were heads that were cropped out of the pics.
Someone complained.
Houston PING
If it is a fake it’s pretty good. Notice the shadows of the bridges onm the water and the shadows of the handrail and lady are all leaning toward the photographer.
It is very compelling.
I agree with the poster who said you should have requested to look at the actual back of the print.
I have only been to Dave & Busters once and after a while everything was blurry .............
That was my first guess, but the old torch (currently in the base building below the statue) looks like this...
Notice only 1 rail on the torch, vs the 3 rails in the photo of the lady.
To me it is obviously a composite picture...
Notice I didn’t say fake, I just believe in the interest the restarant had in decorating their establishment with compelling and interesting photos and other “frou-frou” (BTW, where is FrouFrou???) they certasinly got their money’s worth...
Notice the mode of dress the woman (if it really is a woman), her hair style, sunglasses are way to contemporary in my opinion to corrolate to the nostalgic fair of the photograph...
The railing and device behind her are nautical in theme...The hatches and other accessways into the device behind her indicate (in my vast naval experience) a device that could be a “reciever” or some other transmitting device that might be used for either communications or some other form of sensing RF (radio frequency) emmissions from other ships or land installations...
The high altitude shot of lower Manhattan is just that...When it was taken is subject to additional scrutiny, as the exact configuration of that area is not readily apparent to me...I have not spotted the WTC as yet...It would have had to have been taken after 1977 I suppose...
Overall the perspective of the picture indicates that the woman, much less her immediate surroundings indicate that she would be very comfortable at that altitude in the first place...
The whole derrigible (airship) idea doesn’t compute with me...
The “shadow” comment gets me to thinking of the whole cut-n-paste picture of Lee Harvey Oswald standing there holding the rifle, some documents and the shadows on the head differ from the alignment of the shadows on the body that the head is cut and pasted to...
The first question is why??? Why do you pose with a rifle, wearing the clothes he had on with one hand holding a rifle, and the other holding documents???
Somehow I am going to have to figure out why I would ever want to pose for a picture like that...Then see if anyone calls me a goober for doing so...I know some would call me a goober anyway...
Onward and upward I say!!!
Ahhh!!! The WTC is cut and pasted in a slight aspect difference with the level of the original photo of the Manhatten aerial photo...It is not shaded, and the light hitting it is really way too different than the light and shading of the rest of the skyline...
And the device behind her does looks more and more like an electronic sensing devices used on military vessels in recent history...
The original shot of her might have been taken on a dependents cruise or some other event on one of our ships...
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