Empire State Building's Endangered Animals Display

[Twitchin Kitten]

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NYC, fuckin' a!

Saw this on the news this morning. August 1 NYC's Empire State Building put on a first ever display on the building besides the lights at the top. Pretty awesome.

This is a video I found of the thing someone took from the street, but if you look at the second video, it's 3 hours long, it's better quality. You can fast forward through the long one, but it's really cool what they did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyoUtCr6tHA

The long one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w91i1X9UgrY

[LKTraz]

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Pretty cool display!

I'm almost never in the area when the light displays are active and I can only see the building in the distance from I - 78 exit #57 as I approach the Newark airport so I wouldn't have been close enough to make out the details anyway. I did catch the color display once or twice but as I said it's a bit away from where I can see it.

That display would have been really cool to see from the street or better yet from maybe the Chrysler building's upper floors!

[Twitchin Kitten]

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No, looking at it at night from the avenue would have been best. The longer video has the entire clip. It ran for about 3 hours at a cost of like $1million and they used 40 cameras to run it. It was because of the outrage over Cecil the lion's death that prompted them to do this and call attention to just how many species of animals are on the endangered list and how big a problem poaching is.

People can say I'm one of those "crazy animal" people, but growing up in the city, having lived on a farm and now stuck in a suburb, it gives me a perspective that those who never had the chance to live in a variety of places never get. When you're in a city, your only wildlife are pigeons and some squirrels if the park is lucky enough not to have gotten rid of them all. There are no songbirds waking you up with the sun in the morning and you don't get to see a little rabbit snatching a piece of greenery from a garden. There are no does with their fawns sharing grain with your horses. You don't hear the owls at night and early in the morning and you certainly don't see the beautiful silver and red fox out hunting. No hawks, no eagles, just pigeons and some squirrels.

I'll never understand hunters who don't really hunt. Luring an animal is NOT hunting. Leaving it's carcass to rot is NOT hunting.