Tuesday, July 17, 2012

This is How You Paint a 150 Foot Tall Batman

This is How You Paint a 150 Foot Tall Batman:
This is How You Paint a 150 Foot Tall Batman
315 Park Avenue South is exactly halfway between my apartment and the Tor offices. For nearly two decades I’ve watched an anonymous group of painters create 150 foot movie poster murals on the side of the building.
I’ve always wondered how they construct the image and what it might look like from up close while it’s being put together. It’s one of the only places where advertising is still painted — it’s an original work and it changes up about once every six weeks. I even joked that one day I would sit outside the building all day and wait for the crew to come out.
[Then they started painting a huge Batman]
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