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55 comments:
Behind your air conditioner vent?
Good guess, Debbie...but no. You're cool, like you wouldn't be behind my a/c vent!
Is that object in the center a latch?
No, Gary, it's not a latch!
Are you in a subway station, looking up?
No on both counts, Deborah!
is this part of an art sculpture?
Basically yes, though some might quibble over that.
Is it a fence?
No, Deborah, it's not a fence!
Is this piece of "art" a facing or facade to a building?
Gary, I think most people--and maybe all people--would say "no" to that.
Well, I don't know about you, but I'm certainly ready for clue #2.
I love the rhyme, Debbie...and I assure you that I will continue to uphold the helpful WWI guess/clue ratio.
And, as a recap: It's not behind my air conditioner vent, it's not a latch, it's not in a subway station, and it's neither a fence nor a facade. But it is part of some art sculpture thingy.
Keep on guessing!
Could it be a building that is also a musical instrument? For instance David Byrne's installation at the Battery Maritime Building.
Are you in jail?
Oh! Is it the Home Delivery exhibit at MOMA?
A musical instrument? No. A jail? No.
But the Home Delivery exhibit at MOMA? Undoubtedly the warmest guess so far, Myra!
Specifically, were you at (the) MoMA?
No, Debbie, I wasn't at (the) MoMA on (this) oCCASIon!
Were you outdoors?
Were you in Manhattan?
Are you outside looking down at a grate?
No, I was not outdoors. But I was in Manhattan.
Dave, that's a grate guess. But no, I was not outside looking at a grate.
I will take this opportunity to note that I first became "aware" of where I was when I was at (the) MoMA. But that's hardly the only reason why the Home Delivery exhibit at (the) MoMA was the warmest guess so far.
The devil is in such details.
Is this the grating that often gets pulled down in front of a store front as a security device?
(and you are presumably inside.)
Oh man, Dave, I see where you're at, but I swear it's not one of those grates and I swear I was really inside. I'm not blowing smoke.
OK, since I haven't guessed for a while I'm going to ask 2 questions:
1) Does this structure "blow smoke"?
2) Is this item involved in helping making the planet greener?
Did you realize "where you were" when you were at the Home Delivery show at MoMA, or a movie there, or the Dali show, or simply looking out the window from there? Or maybe you were in the bathroom when the light bulb went off?
No, Gary, the structure doesn't blow smoke. And, no, as far as I know, it isn't green.
Debbie, a movie at (the) MoMA was like an omen that all of us would be grappling with this question today.
As for Home Delivery, Dali, a window, and the bathroom light bulb? No, no, no, and no.
I hope this answer is good enough for everyone!
Do try to go one yes/no question at a time. I know it isn't easy, so I do appreciate the effort.
is it the unfinished glass "stairway to nowhere" (with the new TKTS booth underneath) in Father Duffy square?
No, Myra--you were basically warmer with (the) MoMA!
Is it something we're all somewhat familiar with, because if not, I'm really not understanding the guesses/photo ratio.
It's clearly not a no-brainer, Debbie. But there are certainly helpful avenues of questioning that hardly been built upon yet. Some good questions could really make a splash!
Are you in a public building?
I'm not sure what you mean, Myra, but my best guess is that the answer would be "yes and no, depending."
Feel free to clarify!
Is the "mesh" permanent or temporary? Whatever it is, I'm liking it!
The "mesh" is probably more permanent than temporary.
And I'm glad you're liking it, Debbie. And I'm curious as to your take on the question of the upside-down question mark.
Were you in Nike Town on E 57th St?
Were you at the NBA store on Fifth Avenue?
Oh, and re the question mark, I liked your interroflip as well as the quiggle. And I was very impressed by Dave's html ability.
Debbie's extremely warm, but I'd like some finessing here. Please refer back to the previous images, especially the first one, and please refine the guessing!
And Debbie, is there a short Spanish turn for the interroflip? If not, why not??
Are you inside the Tishman Building across from the NBA store?
Is the first picture a blurry too close view of Noguchi's waterfall screen?
Whoa--Ellen gets the point for the Noguchi guess!
A bonus point will go to the first person to "guess" the buildilng!!
666 Fifth Avenue, home of Top of the Sixes?
Don't have any info on the interroflip, sorry.
Oops--cancel that bonus point offer. It is indeed the Tishman (or 666) Building, the location of the Noguchi waterfall, the former home of Top of the Sixes, possibly still the home of a smoking lounge, a location of a Universal screening room, and the subject of Shirley Clarke's Skyscraper, a documentary short I once saw at (the) MoMA--but the NBA store is in the retrofitted building, not across from it.
Unless you can correct me on that.
So I'll give Ellen the point for the Noguchi waterfall guess, but I'm retracting the bonus point offer.
Well-done, everyone, and congrats to Ellen for identifying the Noguchi.
Okay with you, Debbie?
And don't you think it's weird that there isn't a short name for the interroflip? I mean, "question mark" is a little on the side (as is "exclamation mark") but the term for the quiggle/interroflip that's mentioned at Emdashes is enormous, almost like the name of a government bureau.
Oh--and the mesh in the second photo hangs over a subway exit/entrance.
DRATS! If only I had said "looking at the NBA store"!
What about the Noguchi ceiling did you take any "wavy" pictures of that?
No, I didn't take a picture of the ceiling. I was in the building to see a screening of Mamma Mia when I decided to take WWI? pix. However, I ran out of room on my cameraphone, and time became a factor.
On a return trip the guards dissuaded me from taking more pictures. Ever. Anywhere.
Perhaps you shouldn't wear those reflector sunglasses once you shaved your head.Afterall, you are very menacing and threatening looking, and that cameraphone looks like a...cameraphone.
Totally fine with me. I thought you were giving Ellen a hard time with not having the EXACT address, so I'm glad you retracted the bonus.
With regards to the question mark, maybe they should just be called "open question mark' and "close question mark" the same way we do with quotation marks.
You're a good sport, Debbie! Be sure to let Emdashes know your "open/close" suggestion--you could be a winner!!
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