Not exactly news, but we made a Lincoln Project ad: Nice skyline shot through arch at about 38 seconds.

symphonicpoet wrote: ↑

Nov 11, 2020

(It is kind of cool that you're looking through the arch, but down on every building in town. In some ways I feel like that better conveys the scale of the thing than your usual over the river shot.)

We're done with LP at this point, yes?  

I see the Arch in more and more ads on TV where they want a city skyline that unmistakably represents the middle of America.  Some of the other downtowns in this video have more generic skylines and I have no idea what cities they are.  (Let me know if you know.). The only distinctive major city skylines in the US are DC mall, NY, Chicago, SF, Seattle, St. Louis, & Hollywood sign in LA.  All the rest look generic.  Am I missing any?  I think I saw New Orleans St. Louis cathedral to represent the South.

I saw the Arch recently in some ad for a nation-wide rollout of something or another. It's a go-to symbol that everyone recognizes as a place holder for regional America. 

I'm like Mayor; I have a thing about city skylines, and I pride myself on being able to identify just about any that are out there. Sometimes it takes a minute, but I usually figure it out. 

The Austin skyline took me by surprise. I didn't realize it was already on that level. 

The first NYC skyline shot is sneaky as most of that skyline - Hudson Yards - didn't exist 5 years ago. 

Best I can tell urban shots: 
0:00 - DC - Capitol Dome & Washington Monument 
0:08 - Seattle - Space Needle
0:09 - NYC - Hudson Yards
0:10 - NYC - Brooklyn Bridge
0:21 - Chicago - Wrigley Field
0:22 - Cleveland - City Center District / Downtown
0:28 - New Orleans - St. Louis Cathedral / French Quarter
0:29 - Austin - (agree with wabash - I LOVE the Jenga-ish building = "The Independent" = tallest residential building in US west of the Mississippi @ 690')
0:31 - NYC - Statue of Liberty
0:34 - NYC - Statue of Liberty & South Manhattan
0:37 - St. Louis - Gateway Arch & Downtown
0:40 - Los Angeles - Hollywood Sign
0:41 - Philadelphia - Ben Franklin Bridge
0:46 - Atlanta - Downtown looking over Georgia World Congress Center to the East (toward downtown).

Nice to see STL featured. I don't get the ad though. I don't follow politics much and don't know who this organization is. Is this message for democrats or republicans? Lol either way I'm sure everyone will love each other now after we've been told to hate for four years. 

^I think Lincoln Project's real target is populist voters. Suburbanites and blue collar voters. I don't think they're really targeting Republicans, save possibly to split the party by convincing some not to vote, or at least not to vote for Trumpists. (I have a hard time believing enough Republicans would break ranks so much as to vote for a Democrat as to make a difference.) But it's hard to say. Their first ad of which I was aware was essentially a big montage quoting Republicans past and contrasting what they said with Trump. (Mostly Reagan, as I recall. But maybe also Bush I and II, and perhaps Eisenhower.) They at least claimed they were trying to target moderate Republican voters. But Obama/Trump crossover voters (so much as there actually were any) would make more sense. 

The Urban Land Institute - Americas is also using the Arch as a geographic placeholder for their 2021 Awards For Excellence.

^ dammit! the arch is taller than the space needle and the washington monument!

And the Hancock center is half again as tall as any of the rest of it. And the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans is . . . short. As is the Statue of Liberty. Ah well. Just leaves the Arch all that much more impressive when people actually see it.

The topography of the land all of the buildings sit on is unknown, though.  Or the perspective from which the "picture" was taken.