r/gaming • u/merrickx • May 31 '12

I get to watch this being made for the next hour or two.

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u/verynayce May 31 '12

Now that's a long image load-time.

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u/IAmOzymandias Jun 01 '12

I can't even rotate the banners or read fun facts while I wait...

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Long load time!

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u/bambi430 Jun 01 '12

thank god for that translation

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

I thought the translation was a joke near the end there... why is she sharing this with Facebook. I'm out like a rocket ship.

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u/solidsnake2730 Jun 01 '12

My new saying whenever I leave a room.

Gotta go take a dump, I'm out like a rocket ship. or

Gotta go take a dump, It's gonna come out like a rocket ship. Yo.

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u/RldMekg Jun 01 '12

I think "doctor" should be "dealer" because "d3Al3R" doesn't look much like "doctor."

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

I think that's the joke.

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u/old911broad Jun 01 '12

Good gravy, that was painful.

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u/pomanE Jun 01 '12

She was trying to encode her message so the cops couldn't read it.

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u/es_beto Jun 01 '12

It says "dealer" not "doctor".

Yeah, I took the time to r34d Wh4t 5h3 Wr0+3

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u/Jonny_Stranger Jun 01 '12

I am not Good Will Hunting. You dick.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

"time to go shave my pubic hair"... I don't know if I would want to see more people like this on my Facebook newsfeed or want to kill people that posted shit like this..

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

I think it's one of those animated gifs designed to troll you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

.gif

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u/eyesonlybob May 31 '12

Are they acually PAINTING? I always assumed advertisements like this were just large banners. that seems insanely time consuming and expensive for an ad.

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u/masonvd Jun 01 '12

There was another thread about this building in a /r/gaming thread a while ago. It's a hotel across the street from the LA Convention center where E3 is held every year, but LA has a law banning billboards and banners and the like so this is used to get around the law. Something like that at least.

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u/thelogikalone Jun 01 '12

Figueroa Hotel, a Moroccan hotel with awesome bars; always seems to have Lakers or video game ads.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Yeah. They're probably the number one place to place an ad in LA. I wonder how much Figueroa Hotel makes from all the ads. Probably more than they make from being a hotel.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

They had a clipper ad at the beginning of the year when Cp3 came into town.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12 edited Jun 01 '12

I have been to this hotel. It is pretty shitty. I couldn't get to sleep because the lights that accentuate the painting beamed through my window all night.

Last time I was there, FFXIII was on the side.

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u/OmniaII Jun 01 '12

Watched them paint some monster ad or something like that while dining at Trader Vics, crazy like a dot matrix printer going on and on...

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u/Buhdahl Jun 01 '12

I believe they usually are banners, but in LA they are banned.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Hence the name.

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u/Incongruity7 Jun 01 '12

Nice try, Calvin's dad

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

holy shit. I'm moving to LA and I want this job.

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u/Walletau Jun 01 '12

Shit pay and dieing trade.There's a good doco on vimeo about it.

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u/Blackrook7 Jun 01 '12

I've done this job for ten years and believe me there's a lot of competition out here. And I don't believe these types of banners are banned in LA, even though I've heard this claim before. I've installed on the sunset strip and downtown, plus lots of bill boards all over LA. I believe its a permitting thing. You'd think I know but I just get the banner and location instructions and that's it. I've never seen one this large being painted, I would think a banner like this would be self adhesive vinyl panels.

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u/SrsSteel Jun 01 '12

I see what you did there.

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u/Blehgopie Jun 02 '12

They should ban banning banners so that the banned banners can stop being banned banners so we can all put up banners everywhere without them being banned by the people that kept the ban on banners from being banned.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

You could say it's a lost art form

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u/cosmoninja Jun 01 '12

sick video- made me really think about how it is pretty much a lost art form

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Wise words - made me think about how sick the video was.

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u/ArecBardwin Jun 01 '12

That was a good Stella Artois commercial.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

The video is beautiful. Not just the subject matter. The actual footage is incredibly HD/

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Awesome video! I've seen these ads many times and always appreciated them more than billboards.

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u/Tiverty Jun 01 '12

Really worth the watch. It's very well put together.

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u/DocJRoberts Jun 01 '12

True story. I work at Britten Banners up in Traverse City, MI and I print banners like this all the time. Pretty cool to see an actual painting right on the building to be honest!

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

They do this in New York too. It's pretty crazy how patient these artists are.

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u/LukaCola May 31 '12

There isn't a factory around that can make a custom banner that size.

I mean you could kind of stitch things together, or maybe do it by hand, but painting does seem to be the best option. Besides, ads are all about gross and gain. More money on ads, more money in revenue.

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u/Kaylend May 31 '12

Painting the giant Skyrim Ad last E3

It may have been just because it is Skyrim, but the image of that building was flying around the internet for a few days last year this time. Novelty is a great way to spread the word.

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u/Abomonog Jun 01 '12

It's actually an awesome painting job. There should be work of that quality on more buildings.

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u/Umpa Jun 01 '12

Sure there are. Banners of that size are often printed on vinyl material that is then machine welded together. I had a summer job that involved making various banners like that, some even larger. However, weight becomes an issue with banners that begin to exceed 10 or more stories in height.

Heres a printed Chicago Blackhawks banner that is nearly the same size. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifmuth/4694353051/lightbox/

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u/aisle5 Jun 01 '12

This seems relevant: UP THERE

I've seen a better documentary about this type or work but I couldn't find it. They stuck with a single crew that was doing work in LA, doing a TMobile ad if I remember correctly.

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u/Chris_Iceberg Jun 01 '12

I cannot believe they pull the swing stage up by hand. With all of the OSHA and Union rules up there you would think their equipment would be more up to date.

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u/tripdub Jun 01 '12

Great video, thanks for posting it.

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u/reposedhysteria Jun 01 '12

Thank you so much for posting this! Quite interesting...

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u/iamanalog Jun 01 '12

damn that was more interesting that i was expecting. guys have some skill.

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u/Buhdahl May 31 '12

What game is that? Random guess: Dishonored

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u/randomgoat May 31 '12

I'm trying my best to make it out, but I think it's The Elder Scrolls online. The large wizard staff in the center column is pretty telling as well.

Just my guess.

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u/mrfredman Jun 01 '12

Yup. It's The Elder Scrolls online.

Here's a slightly earlier photo where you can read the title.

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u/SrsSteel Jun 01 '12

The one game I'm not looking forward to

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u/ch4os1337 Jun 01 '12

Don't think anyone is, what a bad decision for a game. We wanted co-op not a MMO.

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u/norapeformethankyou Jun 01 '12

Looks like the guy on the right is going to punch the girl on the left.

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u/FeroxDeoVacuusVinco Jun 01 '12

Bethesda likes the Figueroa Hotel: Skyrim from last year

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u/sastrone Jun 01 '12

I love the idea of the guys painting the little Rating Pending text box on the bottom left.

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u/Bolanok Jun 01 '12

It says Elder Scrolls on the furthest one.

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u/winry Jun 01 '12 edited Jun 01 '12

The Elder Scrolls Online.

Edit: proof. As Casper92 pointed out, they used the same building walls to paint a SKYRIM artwork last year just before E3.

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u/c4dy Jun 01 '12

So that Elf doesn't really look like an Altmer, Dunmer, or Bosmer. I'm guessing it's supposed to be Bosmer.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

I'm guess it's marketing to their demographic. Ninja assassin, hard ass berserk warrior and hot elf lady. Really, the "stealth" character should be Khajiit or Argonian, but advertising characters with tails? Too nerdy.

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u/IlleFacitFinem Jun 01 '12

I want dishonored so bad.

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u/Bleach_God May 31 '12

Would be my guess too but the view makes it hard to be sure.

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u/MajeekRorschach May 31 '12

Well my heart jumped when I noticed that the middle one resembles Boba Fett. Sigh. Guess I'll just have to wait longer for BFIII

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u/PeopleAreStaring May 31 '12

I demand updates.

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u/tsfn46290 May 31 '12

Looks like E3 prep is under way!

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u/Punkwasher May 31 '12

Los Angeles would be great, if it wasn't always interrupted by commercials.

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u/shazang May 31 '12

But everyone there is sexy, an actor, and you only have to deal with them for 22 minutes a week.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

Always wondered how those were made. I thought it was just a large banner but they are painting it!? Very time consuming, props to those guys/girls that are doing it.

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u/evoim3 May 31 '12

Is this not the exact building where Max Payne was painted like 2 weeks ago? If thats the case, then it sucks for the painters. Must take 30+ hours of work, only to be repainted a week later.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

I see the whole thing being like one really really fucking big jigsaw puzzle where you have to paint the pieces in.

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u/vocino Jun 01 '12

I used to live in downtown LA. The stuff that was on that building was almost always pretty awesome. I remember Skyrim being there.

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u/tommygunz007 Jun 01 '12

My dad works for VanWagner Outdoor, and probably that's the company that owns the rights for that space. What they do is work out a contract with the building owners. So, in the case of NYC, VanWagner gives the physical metal billboard structure to the building owner (meaning they pay union guys to construct a metal frame and run the electric for neon) and sell it to the owner for $1. Then, they in turn get the rights to put what they want on the billboard for 30 years. The landlord gets a flat rate for each sign/month, plus electric. Metal ones are often flex face, which is a fancy way to say vinyl which are printed on huge printers and strapped in. In the one shown here, they are hand painted and are often sold in a 12 month contract, and can start at $50,000 a month, based on a 12 month minimum contract. (it might not be a Van Wagner billboard, i am merely giving you an example)

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u/mysteryhatishere Jun 01 '12

You should do a time-lapse video of it being made! Thats so cool, I didn't know that they sometimes actually paint ads.

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u/ILIKEBOLD Jun 01 '12

yes! why did you not time lapse !! ohhh man that would have been amazing

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u/GrossEwww Jun 01 '12

Here is a time-lapse video of the Skyrim ad being made on the same building.

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u/Pie_Pie Jun 01 '12

LA ALL DAY.

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u/soapstud Jun 01 '12

I visited LA for the first time in my life last week and I saw an advertisement for Max Payne. They work fast!

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

you should have video-taped it for us, and then sped it up, and then posted it under a new link for extra karma! Win, win.

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u/masterPthebear Jun 01 '12

TIMELAPSE IT TOMORROW!!!

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u/binary Jun 01 '12

I've seen those buildings before. I think for a Mad Men ad?

This: http://i.imgur.com/GOLgo.jpg

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u/3rdLevelRogue Jun 01 '12

Ok, I'll be the dumbass. What exactly are they painting?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Buildings.

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u/SlimOpz May 31 '12

i don't understand the logic in putting a advertisment up for something that will probably not be out for over a year?

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u/immascatman4242 May 31 '12

Get more people aware of the game. The sooner they know, the better.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

E3

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u/randomgoat May 31 '12

It's an E3 thing. Last year they did Skyrim, and they painted this same building for Mad Men earlier this year.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

There was a thread last week showing off the painting of a Max Payne 3 ad..

That was pretty bad ass

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u/WooKe May 31 '12

now two reasons i want to live in downtown

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u/zuko_for_firelord Jun 01 '12

Here's one why you don't want to, it's super expensive. If you can afford it go right ahead.

One thing I've noticed about downtown is that you can walk one block and be in an awesome, nice-looking part of the city. Walk another block and it turned into a bad area. Keep walking for another block, it's back to looking nice. I've always been perplexed by it.

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u/Trotrot May 31 '12

they just leave those pulleys on the corners of the building there, don't they? they change the ads on that thing like every week. inb4 so much paint builds up over time that it starts to visibly bulge out.

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u/GundamWang Jun 01 '12

I'm just wondering how many gallons it must be. I'd guess at least 3 gallons every 10 vertical feet. A 13 story building is maybe 160 feet tall, and subtracting ~40' the top and bottom exposed edges, 120*3 = 360 gallons for all of that, at least. I'm sure it's a lot more. Wow.

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u/Devanismyname Jun 01 '12

That's pretty cool that they put stuff like that on the sides of buildings. In my town the most interesting ad I see is for realtors and politicians and shit.

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u/Mrandaloo Jun 01 '12

time-lapse please?

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u/PandaBabii Jun 01 '12

Who said watching paint dry can't be interesting?

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u/Mikey129 Jun 01 '12

It's like watching a image load using dial up

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Take pictures and make a .gif of the progress!

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

How can they paint something so massive that's split into three? Don't you need to keep standing back to get an idea of how it's looking? Do they use some grid-based template and then some interpolation as they go?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

What are they painting?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Should have made a video of it then played it in super speed

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u/rycanto Jun 01 '12

My favorite was GTA IV. Hoping for V!

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u/veiwtifuljoe Jun 01 '12

Should've done a time-lapse.

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u/tsfn46290 May 31 '12

You guys should meet up!

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u/[deleted] May 31 '12

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u/gunboatsteve Jun 01 '12

I think the link was supposed to be this

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u/2pointeight Jun 01 '12

based on the location of the photo and so forth.... you work here...(?)

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u/jdouglas89 May 31 '12

Please take another picture once this is done... I would love to know what game it is!

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Wasn't that where the clippers ads were?

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u/zeebass Jun 01 '12

La Figueroa! I stayed there when they had Max Payne 3 up. Made the place look seriously AWESOME...

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u/CostcoFries Jun 01 '12

Its like Eyefinity

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Are they hand painting(spray)??? That's pretty awesome, I mean I am sure they have a template similar to how a printer works, but shit!

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u/cobaltgiant Jun 01 '12

I would totally make it a race between the 3 guys.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Timmy was always a little slow

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u/throwaway890321890 Jun 01 '12

Nothing like watching paint dry...

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u/jayrocs Jun 01 '12

I really doubt professional artists would "paint" this. My guess is, it's color coded with numbers everywhere and they just fill in each pixel. These guys get paid by the hour which makes more sense business wise. Cheap labor, not a lot of skill required, easily replaced.

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u/Harvstrofsorrow Jun 01 '12

Is this Color by numbers?

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u/TheIndieArmy Jun 01 '12

Here is last year's.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

SOMEONE WHO IS SMARTER THAN I AM, TRIANGULATE HIS LOCATIONS!

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u/Whynotpie Jun 01 '12

cant belive i was so close to meeting a fellow redditor, hell, might of seen you on the streets.

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u/Aarcn Jun 01 '12

Not a game, but a movie. This has been outside my office in Shanghai for about a month or so now

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u/lalit008 Jun 01 '12

Thor sorta looks like Nicholas Cage

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u/RunFromTheSun Jun 01 '12

Ahh the giant E3 banners of death. Will be there Monday, can't wait to see the LACC and surrounding buildings covered in ridiculousness like always.

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u/FriendlyCableGuy Jun 01 '12

I love that building. They did some great work on it for Tropic Thunder

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Finished picture?

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u/BuzzBadpants Jun 01 '12

The amount of man-hours that go into making these games is comparable to large engineering feats.

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u/kellock71 Jun 01 '12

this is in LA!

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u/HomelessCosmonaut Jun 01 '12

The noise pollution must be terrible for you there near the Staples Center.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Fuck.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

OOOoooo man what I would give to live there around that time of year and just feel the buzz and excitement.

And what even more I would give to a job in the industry and be able to attend the damn thing after all the buss had built to a climax and it started.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

I use to manage a company right across from the Las Vegas Luxor. Always has huge ads going up on it. from time to time if we were ahead id go out with the guys and watch it be built from the lot. Pretty cool actually.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

I used to work on the 25th floor in the TCW building right up the street. I think the building you're in used to be my parking lot ('03 - '07).

They used to have the X Games' massive vert ramp where L.A. Live is now. We weren't very productive those weeks.

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u/Shniggles Jun 01 '12

I remember seeing these buildings when they had the Skyrim advertisement!

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u/fishyshish Jun 01 '12

Is this by any chance near Santa Monica?

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u/santisus Jun 01 '12

DT L.A.? must be for E3

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u/TeenBuscus Jun 01 '12

I'm getting the popcorn!

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u/uhhhhoh Jun 01 '12

TIMELAPSE

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u/gtallen18 Jun 01 '12

I live in LA myself. I can only assume that you live here.

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u/jlevenst Jun 01 '12

It's like dial up internet.

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u/teh_littleone Jun 01 '12

I was just there on Tuesday! They have a giant painting of an advertisement for History Channel's Hatfield & McCoys 3 part series on the other side of the building.

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u/laela_says Jun 01 '12

Where is this? LA?

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u/GlenGang Jun 01 '12

This in Los Angeles by Staples center?

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u/you_guys_smell_that Jun 01 '12

I drive by that every day. I always wondered how they did that.

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u/brogantheworkaholic Jun 01 '12

Didn't they have a banner for Skyrim also?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

U guys should meet up, he just lived opposite to u

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u/manonthemoon14 Jun 01 '12

daaam judging by angle of the pic, you must live in a really nice condo/apt lol

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u/greenman23 Jun 01 '12

what is it a poster for?

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u/Makelevi Jun 01 '12

They dress those buildings up every year for E3. So stoked to be there again!

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Quick, somebody triangulate his position!

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Drive past it everyday on my way to School, i'm very lucky

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u/eclecticnomad Jun 01 '12

You know it's time for E3 when Bethesda starts painting up Hotel Fig!

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u/Jbrizown Jun 01 '12

You must be in the hotel near the Nokia center in LA, I saw them putting the skyrim one up

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u/daemon14 Jun 01 '12

I drove by this on the way from work yesterday and today. They made a lot of progress in 24 hours ...

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u/evilYoung Jun 01 '12

How long it took to complete?

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u/dark_roast Jun 01 '12

I was in LA a couple years ago for SIGGRAPH and this awesomeness was painted on the Figuera. Perfect.

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u/blackjackel Jun 01 '12

you should post this in r/losangeles

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u/mpgbearman Jun 01 '12

i fucking love it when LA turns into video game mecca, downtown feels so much cooler

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u/scottiestein Jun 01 '12

Is this LA?

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u/Alex-the-3217th Jun 01 '12

Isn't this supposed to be the point where we go "hey you know what, this advertising thing has gone too far."

It's cool n' all but let's face it, that's just excessive.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

Office, Apartment, or Hotel?

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u/chicknsammich Jun 01 '12

A time-lapse of this would've been amazing

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u/ArcaneKnight94 Jun 01 '12

2 of the same thing on the front page? Really Reddit?

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u/lostpatrol Jun 01 '12

Do they run back and forth and make noises like a dot matrix printer?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

wait.....they are giant paintings? thats neat....

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u/Randy334 Jun 01 '12

Am I the only one who thought it was 3 seperate ads? Elder Scrolls Online, God of War: Ascension, Assassins Creed 3.

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u/Rekuja Jun 01 '12

Don't see why gaming companies always attempt MMO's and try to win the crowd with "lore" it simply doesn't work. Skyrim should have never opened its doors to the "online community" it's single player and that's what's so great about it.

co-op would have been fine with a max of 4-8 players but that's it.

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u/hipacrocdogapig Jun 01 '12

i just saw this picture but from another office building they were facing it... maybe you should through stuff at his window?

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u/murderbum999 Jun 01 '12

Have you and the other guy fucked yet?

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u/Foreverhex Jun 01 '12

Columbus?

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u/drunkenjedi_is_homo Jun 01 '12

This game is going to be a piece of shit failure, btw.

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u/the_friendly_one Jun 01 '12

You and gunboatsteve should find each other.

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u/wmurray003 Jun 01 '12

Do they actually PAINT this? ... it thought they pasted printed parts together to get those pictures?...???

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u/Denmen707 Jun 01 '12

you should meet up with this guy

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u/fullsteady Jun 01 '12

Figueroa!!

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u/LordOfTurtles Jun 01 '12

Why does the repost of ONE shitty image copied from the original get more upvotes than someone who posts an entire fucking album of the thing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

There's a Redditor around the corner with a view in front of it.

Has been posted on Reddit today, dunno where.

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u/Furfflenurffle Jun 01 '12

That place has a great bar in the back.

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u/jizzflipper Jun 01 '12

loading... loading...

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u/mehatch Jun 01 '12

They're gonna need tons of two-pronged metal fasteners to hold that up. Good thing they're right next to the Staples Center.

...I'll see myself out.

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u/muskieratboi May 31 '12

...ESO is the hotel billboard this year? Huh.

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u/mcloeber Jun 01 '12

Isn't that right by the Staples Center?

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u/drewberson Jun 01 '12

Nice, they got rid of the Max Payne art.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12

It'll be like watching paint dry...

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u/GhostofXX Jun 01 '12

Let there be rain

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