450 Sutter
Okay, no one can scoop me on this because no one was there except for me and the grumpy elevator guy. I was at my doctor’s last week, and his offices are in the Grim Fandango building, aka 450 Sutter Street, San Francisco. So I took some pictures in case you’re not from SF and you wanted to see what the real Department of Death looked like:
If you click on “Read the rest” you might read a couple more words, but mostly you will see three more pictures!
When we were making Grim, we saw pictures of this awesome building in our reference books, and it inspired a lot of our architecture in El Marro and Rubacava. Little did I know that someday I’d move to the city and visit the Land of the Dead every time I went to my doctor, my dentist, or my optometrist. I got a root canal there once. Ah, memories.
"Beautiful gilt work, I'd probably sit and stare at it for half an hour before realising I'd missed my appointment. Can you remember what other interesting real-life places you used for reference in Grim Fandango?"
"It's what Ghostbusters would look like if H.R. Giger did the set design.
I can't believe I haven't seen the inside of this building before."
"Dentists? Dentists are for the living. I'm only after them for one reason, they're my ticket out of this toothache..."
"We went and looked at the building when I visited San Francisco, it was pretty cool! Here's a picture of the whole awning, for anyone interested http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/Kagaeris/San Francisco/Buildingoutside.jpg (I guess my mom decided she'd brave the possibility of being hit by a car.)"
"Medecin, Dentistry, Optometry, truly these are the sciences of death!"
"Holy crap, that's amazing"
"That is super sweet. Who's the architect, the Evil Shandor?"
"Tim, i lived a block away from there for two years... and for two years I was convinced that was the DOD! Finally! Closure!"
"Someone needs to put a poster for the number nine up on those walls and take a picture."
"This is how all medical facilities should look."
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"Wow, amazing photos! More please! And for the record, I was *going* to scoop you on this 'Double Fine Action News Report' (I *was* there: check out the second photo - 'Blurred Unassuming Guy on Right') but then I just felt bad, so I let you have this one.