#transamerica tower

[bobcronkphotography]

Transamerica Pyramid

San Francisco, California

Bob Cronk

[humanoidhistory]

Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, 1972. Photo by Werner Catrina. (ETH Library)

[tare-otome]

Sights Around Isle of Spires 5/?

Transamerica Pyramid

^ Lol camera clipping and LoDs 😅

Time lapse view of the Transamerica Pyramid. I had no idea what horrors we would find underneath...

[rabbitcruiser]

The City of San Francisco was incorporated on April 15, 1850.

[blech]

SF Yimby, in their story on the Transamerica Pyramid, featuring an earlier design by architects William L. Pereira & Associates:

The unbuilt ABC Tower in New York early study of elevator travel times, illustration by William L Pereira & Associates courtesy the USC Library

[justsomeguycore]

girlfriends btw

[dlyarchitecture]

[ja-lin]

Lovestruck in-game VS real life photography, San Francisco as seen in Villainous Nights and other series.

Union Square Events take place here and there's an ice skating rink in the winter months. The ice skating rink scene from Duke's route is one of my favorites. And iirc, he also proposed here to the MC.

333 Post St. San Francisco, CA 94108

Dolores Park A lot of characters had scenes here! I still remember the scene that took place at night, where Andi took off her mask to kiss MC. (Ok, but the one that killed me the most was that scene with young Renzei from Razi's route.) From this park you can get a very good view of the San Francisco skyline.

Dolores St &, 19th St, San Francisco, CA 94114

Bay View Another popular spot for scenes in the series. The best view is at Pier 7 along the Embarcadero. You'll see the iconic lamp posts and benches. There was a heart felt scene that took place here from Renzei's route at nighttime.

Pier 7, The Embarcadero. San Francisco, CA 94199

Downtown I couldn't get the exact location like the one in-game, but there's a really nice similar spot at the intersection of Powell St and California St that a lot of photographers go to because it's up a big hill. If you stand in the middle of the crosswalk on Powell you can get a good view of the city. Instead of Optimus tower, you'll see the iconic triangle shape Transamerica tower.

intersection of Powell St and California St

Optimus The tower which Optimus is inspired by is actually the Salesforce Tower. You can walk around the plaza and transit center nearby, but obviously can't go up to the offices. But, I'm guessing the design of Optimus' interior might have been inspired by the Salesforce transit center.

425 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105

[david-talks-sw]

Misc quotes about the Jedi Order.

"The one exception to Coruscant's predominant art deco style is the Jedi Temple. Lucas wanted the place where the Jedi to have a sacredness to it, as well as a daunting dose of grandeur. As a result, the Jedi complex is a bit Gothic, a bit pyramidal, and a but Chinese Forbidden City. - Jonathan Bresman, The Art of Star Wars: Episode I, 1999

"In contrast to the corporate coldness of the senate building, the Jedi Council architecture was designed to suggest a place of worship, a place that was both religious and monumental. For reference, Chiang took pictures of monuments from various cultures, then exaggerated their shapes and heights in his drawings." - Laurent Bouzereau & Jody Duncan, The Making of Star Wars: Episode I, 1999

NOTE: Just pointing out that the Temple isn't meant to represent an "ivory tower indicative of the Jedi's arrogance", but a place of worship which contrasts with the building housing the arrogant corporate elite.

The symbol of good in the galaxy, the sacred Jedi Temple is a hybrid of Gothic, art deco, and ancient Chinese and Egyptian architecture. [...] Inspired by the TransAmerica pyramid and the rest of the San Francisco skyline, Chiang and Natividad designed the temple complex to be distinctly different than the rest of Coruscant." - Jonathan Bresman, The Art of Star Wars: Episode I, 1999

"At one point during the Episode I design, we were thinking of the Jedi as lone samurai. They were going to be like a police force. But they evolved into the peacekeeping force they are in [The Phantom Menace]." - Iain McCaig, The Art of Star Wars: Episode II, 2002

"George wanted the Jedi Knights to represent the variety of sentient life in the Star Wars universe. We decided to use and upgrade many of the character designs for the Podrace arena crowds from Episode I." - Doug Chiang, The Art of Star Wars: Episode II, 2002

"The emperor's outpost on the [Second] Death Star is a tall spire. It's reminiscent of- when you see the first three trilogies- of the Jedi temple. In this case, the- there's one spire on the Death Star and the Jedi temple's got five spires." - George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode VI, Commentary Track, Special Edition DVD, 2004

NOTE: I love this one, personally: a symbolism that indicates the Jedi find strength in unity, while the Sith are all about putting themselves above everybody else.

"[The Jedi] should be a much more diverse group. You should have aliens in there, more exotic-looking people. [When casting background for Attack of the Clones], you gotta mix it up more." - George Lucas, Creating the Worlds of Star Wars - 365 Days, 2005

NOTE: This is in reference to something that had been done for the casting of Jedi extras in The Phantom Menace: they simply grabbed ILM staff and put Jedi robes on them. George explained that they need to vary the looks, which is partially why he decided to add Aayla Secura to the next film, played by - you guessed it - an ILM production assistant named Amy Allen!

"An additional redress of the Jedi Council chamber was the original Mace Windu office. But this set was abandoned when we moved the scene to a more monk-like meditation room. George didn't like the idea of Mace sitting at a big executive desk, because the Jedi seemed too terrestrial-based, too much part of a bureaucracy." - John Knoll, Creating the Worlds of Star Wars - 365 Days, 2005

NOTE: Look at that, George went out of his way and discarded a whole set-up simply because he wanted to make it clear that Jedi are not mired in bureaucracy, they're spiritual as all hell.

"One of the things that Dave [Filoni] has been sort of adamant about is that the Jedi are not super-heroes, they don’t have these, like, limitless powers, there’s certain things they can do and certain things they can’t." - Killian Plunkett, TCW: “Hostage Crisis” Featurette, 2009

[hartlesshart]

En Route to the Pyramid!

Big Bang Art 2/2

Alva made a noise of dismay, but as the towering Transamerica Pyramid loomed ahead of them, this was quite forgivable. Sylens guessed this was not all she wished to say from her wringing hands, but they continued for a minute in silence.

Had a fantastic time collaborating with Quote during this year’s @horizonbigbang Check out Quote’s marvelous adventure of Alva and Sylens here:

[bobcronkphotography]

San Francisco, The City

San Francisco, California

Bob Cronk

[humanoidhistory]

Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, 1972. Photo by Werner Catrina. (ETH Library)

[tare-otome]

Sights Around Isle of Spires 1/?

I finally finally let myself venture to the island i had been simultaneously longing for and dreading the entire game. So many familiar haunts...

Right away i could see i was near the ruins of Sutro Tower...

In the distance of the gloom i could see the silhouette of a submerged Tallneck...

Peering from around some trees and ruins i could see the Transamerica Pyramid...

[descendant-of-truth]

I absolutely hate when people use Tom's line "time for me to abuse the power entrusted to me" to put him in a negative light because they either ignore or miss the point of the context in that scene: Tom only uses the false pretense of saving a jumper to gain the needed clearance to travel to the Transamerica Pyramid's tower roof so Sonic can get his rings and escape from a madman trying to kill him

Yeah, it's basically a microcosm of what I was talking about in my last post; people seem to ignore the actual writing in these movies for the sake of making Tom out to be a bad person

And it's not that I don't think there's any room for criticism in the decision to make him a police officer in the first place, but I feel like the reaction to him is sometimes disproportionately harsh

Especially since, as I've mentioned a while back, Brooklyn 99 is one of the most popular sitcoms right now. Like, we use quotes from it as regular vernacular on here. Literally every main character in that show is a cop but I don't see people hating them for being positive (or at least likeable) portrayals of the police

Granted I don't know what the exact crossover is between people who like Brooklyn 99 and people who don't like Tom, but it does kind of irk me when people are like "oh yeah the movies are great except for one of the central characters whose bond with Sonic is the driving force of the first film"

[rabbitcruiser]

Father Francisco Palou founded Mission San Francisco de Asís in what is now San Francisco on June 29, 1776.  

[adamburt1984]

My Favourite American Things 🇺🇸

Superheroes/Comic Books Characters

(Like the Shield)

Spyro the dragons, Sparx the Dragonfly, and characters I like from Spyro the dragon games and Spyro the Dragons series (They’re invited/made in US)

Dr Pepper

Liberty Bell

Cloud Gate/Bean

Gateway Arch

Mothman Statue

Hot Dogs

KFC

Little Red Lighthouse (New York)

Empire State Building and Chrysler Building

Brookyln Bridge

One World Trade Center

Seattle Tower/Space Needle

Golden Gate Bridge

Peace Pagoda

Dragon Gate and Guardian Lion statues

Willis Tower

Delicate Arch

Mounment Valley

The Capitol Building

The Alamo

American Pizza

Burgers and fries

Wendys (lady/mascot)

Netflix

Star Wars (and characters and veichles I like)

Hot Wheels 

Sox (Disney/Pixar Lightyear)

Chatters Telephones

Alcatraz Island

Transamerica Pyramid

Conan O'Brien

Dean Cain

Donald Trump

Ronald Reagan

Abraham Lincoln

Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Slinky dog and Green Army Soldiers and RC car