Architecture Voicemail from Jen Graves
posted by on July 31 at 12:49 PM
A transcription of a voicemail on my cell phone from Graves this morning, transcribed exactly, since the inarticulateness kind of gets at the weirdness:
Hey, so I wanted to ask you, or tell you—it’s Jen—that there is something on the corner of James and Broadway. There’s this, like, there’s this building being built, and it’s scaffolding, it’s all scaffolding, really high, and then on the very top is the flag of the construction company, and also a tree, just a tree sitting there on top of the thing as though it were, like, planted in scaffolding. It’s way up in the middle of the sky. Sitting just up in the middle of the sky on scaffolding on the corner of James and Broadway. It’s really weird and totally worth Slogging and I’m seeing it as I drive…
I kinda want to see this but I’m slammed with work. If you’re reading this and can take a photo and send it to editor@thestranger.com, we’ll add it to this post.
UPDATE: Current man-about-the-office Ryan Packer snapped a photo, and Kelly O manipulated it a bit so you can see the tree; the flag; and the red, white, and blue beam.
It's traditional for construction companies to put a tree on top of the scaffolding once it's completed. I don't know why, but I've definitely seen it before.
Wait! More clarity! Here: http://www.utdallas.edu/news/archive/2001/topoff.htm
"The “topping-off” ceremony dates back to the 8th or 9th century. In medieval times, ironworkers would celebrate the completion of a building’s frame by placing a fir tree on top of the final beam. The practice was brought to America and today often incorporates the autographing of the final beam by those involved with the construction process."
It's a construction tradition to put a tree up once the highest structural element has been put in place:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topping_off
(Sorry, no photo.)
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I think you all missed the point of this posting... Christopher says he is slammed with work. I never knew anyone at the Stranger ever worked.
#5 The real point of the posting is Jen Graves driving. I didn't think that was allowed for Stranger staff.
#6, She could be using Flexcar which is an acceptable option.
And in Japan they keep a tree in the top of the building when it's complete.
Kind of a small one though.
I thought topping off meant something totally different.
"slammed with work" = seeking victims for next calf fetish photo
Sadly you're all being mislead by these trolls saying some baloney about a topping off ceremony.
What the flag, the tree and the painted beam mean is that some noble hereo gave his life building those condos.
Single tear drop falling, Cue Lee Greenwood's "God Bless The U.S.A."
Jen Graves Is a fucking idiot! Its like an insecure teenage girl talking..."Oh my god a tree, how cute, um, maybe, uh we should, uh let people know!?"
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