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WaMu Condo Conversion
That didn’t take long…
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Slog tip and photo sent from Justin Lief, and much thanks to the hilarious pranksters.
That didn’t take long…
Click on the image for a larger version of the sign.
Slog tip and photo sent from Justin Lief, and much thanks to the hilarious pranksters.
Comments (16)
Thanks for posting my work! Glad you enjoyed it.
Posted by Justin | September 29, 2008 10:51 AMWell, I think the museum actually owns their building and leases to WaMu. ;)
Posted by Ben Schiendelman | September 29, 2008 10:55 AMThat's pretty awesome. Nice work, you mischievous jackanapes!
Posted by yelahneb | September 29, 2008 10:57 AMWaMu and SAM co-own the land (as mentioned in
Posted by Nandor | September 29, 2008 11:45 AMhttp://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/379714_samwamu19.html ), and WaMu actually rents part of SAM's building -- not the other way around. If JPMorgan wants to shitcan the museum, they will need quite a few lawyers to do it. Note that this is a PROPOSED land use action.
Um, Nandor, no it's not.
Posted by Fnarf | September 29, 2008 12:00 PMThe font looks wrong for "NOTICE OF" etc., but otherwise it's brilliant.
@4 - Ummm...did you actually read the notice? Carefully?
Posted by Ohmygodtheyretearingdownsam!! | September 29, 2008 12:04 PMGood stuff. Props to whoever put the time and effort into this one.
Posted by Keo | September 29, 2008 12:04 PMThere ought to be a Nobel Prize for Thoughtful Mischief. Hell, they give out prizes for economics and what favors have those laureates done us?
Posted by Joe M | September 29, 2008 12:06 PM#6, I did read the notice, although it is difficult to see the map. What I'm confused about is this: If SAM own their own building, what gives JPMorgan the right to tear down their building?
And Fnarf (#5) and the general public: I am admittedly an amateur -- I don't really know what a "proposed" land use action means. I was just using a non-legal definition of "proposed". Sorry about that. But please help me here: What is this about? Does JPMorgan have the right to demolish SAM?
Something that is unclear to me is whether SAM own the land. I believe they do, but I've looked through a couple articles and haven't found that (and don't have the time to look through more articles).
Posted by Nandor | September 29, 2008 12:19 PMRembrandt. Picasso. Pollock. The Fake Proposed Land Use Action Notice Guy.
Posted by Lionel Hutz | September 29, 2008 12:19 PMOh good god -- I am the most gullible person on SLOG!
Posted by Nandor | September 29, 2008 12:21 PMNandor: it's a JOKE. The sign is NOT REAL. It was not put up by the city, it was put up by an artist.
Posted by Fnarf | September 29, 2008 12:22 PM@9 - While you're looking up land use and legal terms in books, look up "irony" "humor" and "performance art."
Posted by Lionel Hutz | September 29, 2008 12:22 PMNandor, alas, your English usage is even worse than your bullshit-detection; there is no such word as "gullible" in the English language.
Posted by Fnarf | September 29, 2008 12:26 PMYou know, it's a clever joke, but it's really not that far off the mark. After all, the Renaissance Madison Hotel (or whatever it's calling itself these days) was built to be either a hotel or an office building, depending on the economy. And the Red Lion hotel used to be a bank building.
Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay | September 29, 2008 1:35 PMYeah, many former office buildings in Lower Manhattan have been converted to residential buildings over the years. It happens, just maybe not with such new buildings.
Posted by Andy F | September 30, 2008 12:26 PMComments Closed
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