Hello friends. We are thrilled to feature “Projecting Change” at The Empire State Building on “The Good News Channel” This is a very special night in NYC at the Empire State Building. Tonight the Empire State Building will display digital light images of endangered species in the hopes of helping the plight of animals.
Sammy & Family is thrilled about this event and wants to thank the Press Department of the Empire State building for helping us feature this story tonight. If something ever needed to be center stage, it’s the plight of the animals and their daily struggles.
For the first time in New York City history, this stand-alone, architectural projection art event featured towering images of endangered species—more than 350 feet tall and 186 feet wide, and covering 33 floors—on the south façade of The Empire State Building in an art event meant to draw attention to the creatures’ plight against mass extinction.
Photo Credit Jon William Brumbaugh
What could be more center stage than being projected on 33 floors of the Empire State Building. Wow, let me say that backwards, WOW. The projected images of endangered species will be almost 400 feet tall. The images will start being beamed from 9 pm tonight, right up until Midnight from a building on West 31 Street.
Travis Threlkel founder of Obscura Digital and Louis Psihoyos illuminated the night with live video projections, including (an 8 minute environmentally-focused tableau, combined with iconic imagery of endangered species, that made each 15 minute cycle running throughout the night a unique experience) showing a Noah’s ark of animals including Cecil the Lion, a snow leopard, a golden lion tamarin and manta rays, along with snakes, birds and various mammals and sea creatures choreographed to Racing Extinction’s original songs. Throughout, the LED lights atop the building were coordinated with the projection, by the building’s lighting designer.
(Photo by Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images for The Oceanic Preservation Society)
Travis Threlkel of Obscura Digital out of San Francisco, and Mr. Psihoyos, director of the Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove” came together to collaborate this once in a lifetime event about one of the most important dangers and challenges on Earth today. Apparently, this project was three years in the making. NYC has strict laws about images being projected in the city. Especially when it comes to the most famous building in the world.
This Illuminating Endangered Specie Event is coming right on time. This event comes on the heels of Cecil the lion, who was heinously killed last week in Zimbabwe, and President Obama’s speech in Kenya just last week that the USA is cracking down on the Ivory trade to help protect elephants.
(Photo by Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images for The Oceanic Preservation Society)
We have written many times before that Mother Nature is tough enough on animals and marine life as it is. The last thing they need is for people to stack the deck even further against them, and that is putting it mildly. People are crucifying all kinds of species all over the world, with a total disregard for the lives of these beautiful, Majestic creatures. Whether its Trophy hunting or Canned hunting, and whether the creatures are Majestic or not, its across the board outright heartless. It needs to stop.
This image is honor of Cecil the lion that was killed in Zimbabwe in early July of 2015
The Empire State building is notorious for changing its light colors at the top of the building for major news and events. In December of 2014, The Empire Strikes Back with a lighting ceremony at the top of the Empire State building to honor the annual dolphin slaughter that takes place in Taiji, Japan. The color of the lights representing this Japanese atrocity was red to symbolize all the bloodshed that takes place. They just recently changed their light colors when The Supreme Court ordered states to recognize gay marriages across the nation. In the spirit of New York City, The Empire State Building also Lit up in Yankees Blue Pinstripes to Honor Derek Jeter.
Lets hope this Endangered Species lighting event shocks and awes the world into a permanent state of animal kindness, animal equality, animal rescue, animal welfare, and so on, and so on and so on.
Travis Threlkel founder of Obscura Digital and Louis Psihoyos
Sammy & Family applauds New York City and The Empire State Building for this historic event one of the most important topics in the world today. For topics related to this matter please see Dr. Harp Seal and Scott’s Smith video and audio messages on animal welfare said in a way like never before.
“The Second Amendment from the Perspective of an Animal” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wIpM1Jak3o
“Where is the Geneva Convention for Animals? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_NebYbcuGA
“Sizing up Hunting by Dr. Harp Seal; https://soundcloud.com/dr-harp-seal/sizing-up-hunting-by-dr-harp-seal
Thank you friends for stopping and reading such an important message. God bless all animals around the world.
Written by Sammy & Family. More information on The Empire State Building Below.
About the Empire State Building
Soaring 1,454 feet above Midtown Manhattan (from base to antenna), the Empire State Building, owned by Empire State Realty Trust, Inc., is the “World’s Most Famous Office Building.” With new investments in energy efficiency, infrastructure, public areas and amenities, the Empire State Building has attracted first-rate tenants in a diverse array of industries from around the world. The skyscraper’s robust broadcasting technology supports all major television and FM radio stations in the New York metropolitan market. The Empire State Building was named America’s favorite building in a poll conducted by the American Institute of Architects, and the Empire State Building Observatory is one of the world’s most beloved attractions as the region’s #1 tourist destination. For more information on the Empire State Building, please visit www.empirestatebuilding.com, www.facebook.com/empirestatebuilding, @EmpireStateBldg, www.instagram.com/empirestatebldg, www.youtube.com/esbnyc or www.pinterest.com/empirestatebldg/.
About Empire State Realty Trust
Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT), a leading real estate investment trust (REIT), owns, manages, operates, acquires and repositions office and retail properties in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area, including the Empire State Building, the world’s most famous office building. Headquartered in New York, New York, the Company’s office and retail portfolio covers 10.0 million rentable square feet, as of March 31, 2015, consisting of 9.3 million rentable square feet in 14 office properties, including nine in Manhattan, three in Fairfield County, Connecticut and two in Westchester County, New York; and approximately 727,000 rentable square feet in the retail portfolio.
“The Second Amendment from the Perspective of an Animal” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wIpM1Jak3o
“Where is the Geneva Convention for Animals? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_NebYbcuGA
“Sizing up Hunting by Dr. Harp Seal; https://soundcloud.com/dr-harp-seal/sizing-up-hunting-by-dr-harp-seal
Thank you friends for stopping and reading such an important message. God bless all animals around the world.
Written by Sammy & Family.
