"Money Isn't Everything, Mortimer."
I've been known to remark (frequently, and in public) about my love of the Lehman Brothers building at 47th and Broadway.
At night, it looks like the whole building is made of screens. The screens look wrong somehow, like they're not supposed to be there - but in the best possible way, like something holy is just tearing through the darkness with a message of peace and strength. One night, when I first moved to the city, I was running through Times Square to the subway; I was feeling useless, dejected, lost. I stopped before this building, and ocean waves were cascading across the screen... then clouds... then fields of wheat... and finally this text slid into view:
I thought to myself, "Maybe I should get a job there."
I mean, these people BUILD VISION. I'd like to build vision! I'd like to manufacture perception itself, control the ways in which we perceive the world around us. If I was in charge of Vision-Building at Lehman Brothers, I can only imagine the reforms I'd make...
Except Lehman Brothers probably won't exist tomorrow.
Who's gonna make all the vision?! Anyone? Anyone?!
Love
Dan
At night, it looks like the whole building is made of screens. The screens look wrong somehow, like they're not supposed to be there - but in the best possible way, like something holy is just tearing through the darkness with a message of peace and strength. One night, when I first moved to the city, I was running through Times Square to the subway; I was feeling useless, dejected, lost. I stopped before this building, and ocean waves were cascading across the screen... then clouds... then fields of wheat... and finally this text slid into view:LEHMAN BROTHERS: WHERE VISION GETS BUILT.
I thought to myself, "Maybe I should get a job there."
I mean, these people BUILD VISION. I'd like to build vision! I'd like to manufacture perception itself, control the ways in which we perceive the world around us. If I was in charge of Vision-Building at Lehman Brothers, I can only imagine the reforms I'd make...
Except Lehman Brothers probably won't exist tomorrow.
Who's gonna make all the vision?! Anyone? Anyone?!
LoveDan
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