the Empire State Building and then us yeah and it's just like that many people want to come see it and it's they they
And Empire State South has been this beautiful place, this beautiful natural meeting point for everybody in the city just because of its locality just because of its appeal to
Here's the Empire State Building.
The building of the Empire State Building-- I just constantly am fascinated that that architectural icon
we have Empire State Building keychains and underwear there is Rubik's Cube Underwear by the way um and there's just all this sort of stuff that it's just
which overlooks the Empire State Building.
in the Empire State Building.
It's "Empire State of Mind" by Jay-Z, who was kind enough to license the song to us, really appreciate that.
And each floor of the Empire State Building, imagine, represents a duration 10 times that of the previous floor.
Can you talk about how the Empire State Building-- that building and the city's architecture-- how central that was to your design?
And so we moved it to the Empire State Building, which is more iconic anyhow.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: I saw the Empire State Building.
So for example, the Empire State Building is 5,000 Post-it notes high almost exactly.
And that's the equivalent of about three Empire State buildings straight up into the sky.
And I thought I want to light up the Empire State Building with endangered species.
And then they're in a boat going down to the Empire State Building.
I'm going to throw the phone off the Empire State Building.
huddled together on the observation deck of the Empire State Building.
They've saved enough power already to power the Empire State Building for something like 10 years.
volume or the most complicated and so this uh Empire State Building model is actually the current record holder it's
One of the estimates that I give in the book is the exponential Empire State Building took us up to 10 to the 100 years, a familiar number for everybody here,
Like in the beginning of the story, the Empire State Building is growing amidst the Great Depression, and at the same time,
Normally kirigami is used to make things like the Eiffel Tower or Empire State Building, something like that.
So, I guess when I opened up Empire State South, which is a real big restaurant in Atlanta, I was like, man, a lot of people are doing restaurants.
He says Julian Simon is like the guy who jumps off the Empire State Building and says how great everything is as he passes the 10th floor of the building going down.
about a year and a half ago a place in Atlanta called Empire State South which has gotten an amazing amount of reviews
From there, we opened up Empire State South in Atlanta.
It's a 2 point 9,000,000ft To give you an idea that's more than the square footage of the Empire State Building.
Some of them are things like landmarks, the height of the Empire State Building, or the height of the Eiffel Tower, or something like that.
Google used to have something where it was like, so how many pennies are in the Empire State Building, or something like that.
Instead of telling me what the number is for that particular-- like how many pennies are in the Empire State Building, you can ask me questions like, is there
or multiple times a day, she draws or paints the Empire State Building.
And so right there, we got the wheels in place to light up the Empire State Building.
They turn off the lights that illuminate the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building in New York.
It's like living here, it's like, oh, I'll go to the Empire State Building sometime.
I imagine, and I ask you to imagine with me, that the Empire State Building is our metaphor.
So you can say I sort of took you from today up to the hundredth floor, if you will, of the Empire State Building.
giant boat trip and climbing up a mountain and coming back to New York City and then climbing the tallest point, the Empire State Building--
For us, the idea of 1933-- the Great Depression, the building of the Empire State Building in 13 and a half months--
And at the beginning to when we are, we do have a nod to the building of the Empire State in the opening of the show.
Although, in the really beautiful first chapter, I think, we learn that, in her Williamsburg loft with her view of the Empire State Building, every day
It's still one of the largest buildings in New York City, a skyscraper laid on its side, bigger than the Empire State Building.
And I said, well, I don't want to talk about the movie so much, but what I've been trying to do to really end the movie is to light up the Empire State
Well, the first thing that I heard was a website-- I went to a concert in the basement of the Empire State Building,
Hugh Acheson is the chef and partner of four restaurants in Georgia, 5 & 10, The National, Empire State South, and The Florence.
Hugh Acheson is a chef and partner of the Athens, Georgia, restaurants Five and Ten, The National, and Gosford Wine and the Atlanta restaurant, Empire State South.
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