As for the old Picturehouse logo with its brightly lit block letters over New York, it will now be seen on the new films.
It's a stack of colorfully lit blocks of different sizes and designs, the brainchild of Rocco S. K. Yim, whose firm has several notable buildings in Hong Kong and mainland China to its credit.
It was a treacherous few blocks, along ill-lit, narrow sidewalks and pothole-ridden streets.
Forbes, a seventy-one-year-old Nevada-based strip-club and real-estate magnate, bought up San Francisco strip clubs in the nineties with various partners and now has a stake in nearly all of them in the city, including eight packed into a couple of neon-lit blocks in the North Beach neighborhood.
ONE recent Saturday night, two Brooklyn roommates were driving home when they passed something odd: an unmarked box truck parked on a desolate block in Greenpoint, spewing strobe-lit, milky fog.
I tried six times, I failed five and a half, he fixed it up for me, and as we walked the little block back to his fluorescent-lit stairway he put his arm around me and said, "Don't worry, you'll get it".
A toilet block, a seaside clifftop, a lamp-lit street.
A toilet block, a seaside clifftop, a lamp-lit street: The scenes photographed by Sean Coyle don't immediately give away signs of a dark past.
It tends to be a reflection of the times: so we've had the fantastical block and bonk busters, we've had singledom-lit and mum-lit all of which publishers seem to think have had their day.
"Detropia" has its share of forlorn images: office buildings with empty eye sockets for windows; idle, rotting factories, with fantastic networks of chutes, pipes, and stacks; a lone lit tavern on a dark block.
