Damn Kids

So here on the 3rd floor of Capitol Records they finally decided to paint our elevator lobby. The trend moved slowly through the building and as each floor’s elevator lobby was renovated, some turned out very nice. I got somewhat anxious to see what they’d do to our floor.

Eventually they got to us, and they painted five boxes of color on the wall to see what color would finally make the cut for our floor. Staff for the floor walked past, most could be heard talking about which colors they liked, and which colors they hated. And we all seemed to agree that we really didn’t like this one particular color. That’s the color they chose.

So they painted the wall a lime green and for days afterward you could hear people talking about how it looked like someone vomited on the wall. They also added a shag rug in front of the wall that didn’t really seem to make sense. But when you looked at other floors, they all got some sort of rug, some new leather chairs that sort of matched the new wall color, and an old timey telephone. We just got a rug, and nothing else.

Weeks go by, I’m looking at this thing every morning, several times throughout the day while waiting on the elevator, and other random times I have to pass through that area. The lime green is slowly starting to grow on me, but that shag carpet just looks sort of like grass. Today I decide that something must be done. Why? Because it’s a half day Friday and I used Ambien last night. I’m in a strange mood.

So I made a sign, then made something to hang the sign on. I didn’t want to tape my new sign to the new wall out of fear that it might damage the paint in some way. I recycled an old FedEx tube and wrapped it in a press sheet sheet from the latest Starbucks project I worked on — Making Merry will be available at most Starbucks stores in time for your Holiday buying experience — then hung up the sign and posted it in the lobby. And waited.

One thing I noticed after taking the photo is that our green shag rug that we all joked looked like grass, actually does look like a lawn when photographed.

Those that have been reading my posts for years may remember when I took an old King Kong cartoon from the 30s or 40s and put a santa hat on him in Photoshop. I hung that on a Capitol Records sign in the office that was the Capitol Records tower. So King Kong was festive, and hanging from the top of Capitol Records. Well, a lot of people on the floor loved it, but it still didn’t stop me from getting in trouble for it. So I’m sure today’s stunt will pretty much end the same way.

Only time will tell.