How about PO N.Y. I can be found scrounging near the red cafe sign...
My home is the water tower, top of the left hand buliding...
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Have A Bite Of The Big Apple, PO Style.
Have A Bite Of The Big Apple, PO Style.
by FourOfSwords » Tue 27 Mar 2007, 21:32:38
How about PO N.Y. I can be found scrounging near the red cafe sign...
My home is the water tower, top of the left hand buliding...
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Re: Have A Bite Of The Big Apple, PO Style.
by Baldwin » Tue 27 Mar 2007, 22:08:53
Throw in some black people looking for blood and you've got apocalyptic PO NY....oh wait...
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Re: Have A Bite Of The Big Apple, PO Style.
by undertaker » Tue 27 Mar 2007, 22:10:35
That's a good start, but it needs more emaciated and disease ridden corpses piled in the streets.
Also, please make a painting showing an out of work tenured professor of sociology with a sandwich board that says, "Will deconstruct Western civilization for food."
Also, please make a painting showing an out of work tenured professor of sociology with a sandwich board that says, "Will deconstruct Western civilization for food."
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Re: Have A Bite Of The Big Apple, PO Style.
by I_Like_Plants » Tue 27 Mar 2007, 22:54:00
Love it! I love art like that!
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Re: Have A Bite Of The Big Apple, PO Style.
by The_Toecutter » Wed 28 Mar 2007, 00:27:44
The skyscraper leaning against the Empire State Building makes the picture much less believable. In real life, it would have collapsed all the way to the ground. That kind of force acting upon the Empire State Building would have a high risk of collapsing that as well!
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Re: Have A Bite Of The Big Apple, PO Style.
by emersonbiggins » Wed 28 Mar 2007, 00:33:55
What Toecutter said. Even stiff quartering winds have quite an impact on the structure of a skyscraper (see John Hancock Tower in Boston), so it's quite asinine to assume that even the Empire State Building can take the point load of half a skyscraper on one of its corners.
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Re: Have A Bite Of The Big Apple, PO Style.
by MD » Wed 28 Mar 2007, 05:51:19
The foreground is nicely done. The photos merged execptionally well.
The background needs a lot of work.
The surface degradation on the ESB doesn't look believable, along with the previously mentioned building leaned against it.
I would suggest more buildings in the background with more windows broken out and less "chunky" surface damage.
The background needs a lot of work.
The surface degradation on the ESB doesn't look believable, along with the previously mentioned building leaned against it.
I would suggest more buildings in the background with more windows broken out and less "chunky" surface damage.
Stop filling dumpsters, as much as you possibly can, and everything will get better.
Just think it through.
It's not hard to do.
Just think it through.
It's not hard to do.
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Re: Have A Bite Of The Big Apple, PO Style.
by MD » Wed 28 Mar 2007, 05:55:54
That said, the foreground buildings you would expect all the window casings to be rotted away and more surface degradation.
this type of photoshopping takes a lot of time attention to detail.
'nuff nitpicking from me. I still like the effort; well done.
this type of photoshopping takes a lot of time attention to detail.
'nuff nitpicking from me. I still like the effort; well done.
Stop filling dumpsters, as much as you possibly can, and everything will get better.
Just think it through.
It's not hard to do.
Just think it through.
It's not hard to do.
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Taking A Bite Out of the Big Apple
by AlexdeLarge » Thu 06 Nov 2008, 00:36:19
Bloomberg: NYC Income Tax Could Rise 15 Percent
NYC mayor: Can't afford $400 property tax rebates
Remember, its your patriotic duty! And since the city never sleeps, you can work two jobs and help spread the wealth around!
NYC mayor: Can't afford $400 property tax rebates
Remember, its your patriotic duty! And since the city never sleeps, you can work two jobs and help spread the wealth around!
Viddy well, little brother. Viddy well.
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Re: Taking A Bite Out of the Big Apple
by cube » Thu 06 Nov 2008, 03:46:45
I never knew a city could impose an income tax, I thought that was the exclusive domain of Federal + State government ......NOT local government.
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Re: Taking A Bite Out of the Big Apple
by ReverseEngineer » Thu 06 Nov 2008, 04:18:02
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cube', 'I') never knew a city could impose an income tax, I thought that was the exclusive domain of Federal + State government ......NOT local government.
Where do you figure the money comes from to run a Police Force the size of New York's Finest, a Fire Department the size of New York's Bravest, and a Sanitation Department the size of New York's Cleanest? LOL. Not to mention the miles of city owned roads and underlying infrastructure of tunnels and cables and of course those Water Tunnels that bring the water from the upstate watershed into NYC?
Some property taxes do the job also, but a city like NY is one VERY expensive proposition to run. It sure doesn't help the Bottom Line of such a city when some of their HIGHEST taxpayers, like the brokers from Lehman and Lehman itself is Outta Biz. Not to mention big taxpayers like Goldman will no doubt show a LOSS on tax returns this year and even though functioning won't be paying taxes EITHER. No Profit here to tax.
How will NYC PAY New York's Bravest and Finest next year? When I lived in NY, I paid my Income Tax there along with the State And Fed Income taxes. Its the price you have to pay to run such lage organizations, so you can have roads to travel on, police to protect your property, a military to protect your nation.
Taxes can only work however in a functioning economy that really produces something, and with the collapse of the Financial Industry and Trade coming to about a complete STANDSTILL, its hard to see exactly what a city like NY actually PRODUCES?
Lining up at the Fed for a Bailout next year will be NYC, along with many of our major metros. They will print more Funny Money to pay the salaries of New Yorks Finest and Bravest, because without them the cities will devolve into chaos and they will Burn. Maybe the Funny Money works for another year to keep the system going. Not much longer than that though.
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Re: Taking A Bite Out of the Big Apple
by GeneralGreen » Thu 06 Nov 2008, 05:32:46
The worse thing to do in bad economic times is raise the working classes taxes in any form..it turns counterproductive..most will work for less or move or find some other alternative.
If NY wants money do like everyone else..go beg the fed for a bailout
If NY wants money do like everyone else..go beg the fed for a bailout
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Re: Taking A Bite Out of the Big Apple
by Consensi » Thu 06 Nov 2008, 05:41:39
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AlexdeLarge', '[')url=http://wcbstv.com/local/michael.bloomberg.income.2.856839.html]Bloomberg: NYC Income Tax Could Rise 15 Percent[/url]
NYC mayor: Can't afford $400 property tax rebates
Remember, its your patriotic duty! And since the city never sleeps, you can work two jobs and help spread the wealth around!
NYC mayor: Can't afford $400 property tax rebates
Remember, its your patriotic duty! And since the city never sleeps, you can work two jobs and help spread the wealth around!
I am relatively new here but I noticed one thing real quickly - certain posters couch almost every post in a political vein.
Maybe if NY (blue) didn't have to carry a lot of the expenses of other states (red) they could keep more of what they produce.
Spreading the wealth around seems to be a one way street from Blue to Red:
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Re: Taking A Bite Out of the Big Apple
by Sys1 » Thu 06 Nov 2008, 08:30:37
What about the tower of liberty by the way? 
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Re: Taking A Bite Out of the Big Apple
by Leanan » Thu 06 Nov 2008, 09:49:51
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cube', 'I') never knew a city could impose an income tax, I thought that was the exclusive domain of Federal + State government ......NOT local government.
Back when I worked in NYC, they not only imposed an income tax...they imposed an income tax on people who didn't even live in the city. If you worked there, you had to pay.
Their justification: people who work in the city are using NYC's roads and bridges, buses and trains. They're using the city water and sewer systems, polluting the city air, and helping fill up the city landfills. So they should pay income taxes.
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Re: Taking A Bite Out of the Big Apple
by Fishman » Thu 06 Nov 2008, 10:02:12
GG
That seems self evident, but apparently 52% of the American people couldn't figure this out.
That seems self evident, but apparently 52% of the American people couldn't figure this out.
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Re: Taking A Bite Out of the Big Apple
by frankthetank » Thu 06 Nov 2008, 10:48:15
I'm a blue state and have been in this high taxed hellhole for my whole life. Wisconsin has been giving and giving to the rest of these welfare cases in the red states. I want my money back! I guess when your state produces DELICIOUS cheddar cheese along with yummy swiss, colby, and muenster...everyone wants a bite 
rant over...
NY should tax those high class socialites right out of their Central Park mansions?
rant over...
NY should tax those high class socialites right out of their Central Park mansions?
lawns should be outlawed.
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Re: Taking A Bite Out of the Big Apple
by cube » Thu 06 Nov 2008, 14:21:33
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GeneralGreen', 'T')he worse thing to do in bad economic times is raise the working classes taxes in any form..it turns counterproductive..most will work for less or move or find some other alternative.
If NY wants money do like everyone else..go beg the fed for a bailout
You are making the common mistake of believing there is always a desirable choice available. That's not how life works.
If NY wants money do like everyone else..go beg the fed for a bailout
Look at it this way if given a choice, would you rather have your hand cut off or your arm?
If you sit there and hesitate and say, "how about neither!" ---> you get your arm cut off.
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