I mean, just look at it.
edit: For anyone wondering, it’s from the first few seconds of HARDY - Sold Out.
They know what their doing.
Back in my home town, they built something that was clearly a cell tower, then just … Essentially glued a few fake pine tree branches to it.
They didn’t even bother to make the tower look vaguely trunk-like. It’s still matte grey and you can clearly see the antennae attached to the top. When I say “a few fake pine tree branches,” I’m not exaggerating; it’s been a few years so I don’t remember precisely, but it’s no more than five throughout the entire height of a cell tower. Mostly clustered together.
For those unfamiliar with AT&T, their logo has basically been the Death Star since the 1980s. It makes sense they’re diversifying into other evil movie monoliths.
So good thanks for sharing
I have one of these in my town. It’s a cell tower dead center in the middle of town, and they boxed it up in a building-like facade and put that glowing logo at the top. Massive eye of sauron vibes. It’s the tallest thing in the city. At night you can see it for miles.
I don’t know why anyone thinks cell towers are uglier then the facades they put in front of cell towers.
They could really benefit from a logo update. I see that and amm reminded of what an awful cell carrier they are as I’m sure millions of others are
That’s actually the most Ma Bell shit they could have done.
Well if you’re comparing 333 Commerce St building (topped out in 1993) with Barad-dûr, as depicted in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy (released in 2001-2003), then you maybe should ask why Peter Jackson’s art inspiration (specifically illustrator Alan Lee) based their depiction of Sauron’s tower on the AT&T building (although maybe the architect of the building in Nashville did also draw their inspiration from Alan Lee’s art, timeline become muddled here).
I could find no other depiction of Barad-dûr prior to Jackson’s which had that same forked design, most artists drew a sinister-looking but traditionally spired tower design, with the eye peering through a window in the clouds to some effect.
Tolkien’s book describes the tower like this:
“Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. All hope left him…
…and then he saw, rising black, blacker and darker than the vast shades amid which it stood, the cruel pinnacles and iron crown of the topmost tower of Barad-dûr. One moment only it stared out, but as from some great window immeasurably high there stabbed northward a flame of red, the flicker of a piercing Eye”
No mention of the two-prong fork design that I could find.
It’s interesting that Peter Jackson’s depiction was so good that people now just assume that’s how it always was.
I did try to read the books but, though I enjoyed The Hobbit, I didn’t make it through the first LotR book; as such, the movie depiction is the only one I really know. Not to say that makes it more accurate or anything, just my only experience with it.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
One ringtone to rule then all.
That’s pretty good!
Have you ever spoken to AT&T customer service?
No, actually.
No, it fits.
“His Eye is all round, but it attends more to some places than to others. He can’t see everything all at once, not yet”
Yeah as a customer I can say this is pretty accurate
I mean, it… does look pretty cool, honestly.
Well, you’re not wrong, but if you don’t want to look evil it’s not the best choice.
Sauron may have failed but he was way better at his job.
Wait 'til you hear about Palantir.
They could put a hand on each side and make it goatse eye of sauron. You know, go all the way. 😅
🫱⚪🫲 at&t
