#spyscape

[trainer-blue]

SPYSCAPE RIDDLER CANONLY BI CALLS YOU “DARLING” REGARDLESS OF GENDER

[lillianfromaccounting]

WHAT THE WHAT?!?! HAYLEY ATWELL AND VANESSA KIRBY HAVE A SPY PODCAST!?!?!?

https://spyscape.com/podcast/true-spies-s1

Hackers & spies, actors & artists, filmmakers & writers share great stories of intriguing secrets and inspirational skills.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

If you want to be spy for a day, you gotta go to Spyscape in New York City. It’s way too much to go thru here, so this is just the tip of the iceberg. 

First, you get your immersive briefing. You’ll meet the Cryptologists, enter the Hall of Encryption, and take the encryption challenge, sending a message to a colleague in need of rescue. 

Can you lie? On to the Deception Challenge.

Train to be able to tell if someone’s lying, and test your skills.

Then into the Surveillance Hall- you have to follow directions quickly and identify an array of things happening in the surveillance footage above.

To the Hacking Wing, where you’ll see this device that still holds the malicious code that they brought the famous Stuxnet Worm in on thumb drives.

The Special Ops Challenge is next. Can you get thru the lasers? (Your personal information is in your wrist bracelet, BTW.)

007′s Aston Martin is here. 

Next, Intelligence. There’re all sorts of equipment to see, old & new, big and small. It’s a vast place. 

At the end you’ll be debriefed & receive your scores to find out what branch you’re cut out for.

And, the best part- treat yourself to SWAG! Tickets are $39 for adults (kids $32), unless you want the “Missions & Martini’s” dinner & drinks for $59.

https://spyscape.com/

[hometowntourist]

“People should not be afraid of their government, government should be afraid of their people.” -V

[daysofsamdandtime]

Day Five

Having visited Spyscape last time we were in NYC we had booked for the new exhibition Driven 007 an interactive Look at Bond and the cars.

This was slightly less interactive than we thought it was really interesting to get behind the scenes looks at the effects and some of the gadgets used in the films. Inparticular they had the sfx, miniatures and visual designers step through the destruction of Skyfall in a room set up as the schematics for the shoot.

After this we made our way downtown on the subway to get to 14th st, the centre of the universe (according to Marta in Company) and over to the Whitney museum, which had an Andy Warhol exhibit on.

After a quick stop off at Pier 54, which is an old Cunard pier where the survivors of the Titanic disembarked from the Carpathia following the tragedy. Only the front steel structure remains of this but it was really interesting that they actually were supposed to dock (if the Titanic made it to NYC) at dock 59 (now a studio) and actually stopped there to get the lifeboats off at the White Star Line Pier before going down to Pier 54.

Spread over 3 of the levels of the museum we made our way through and saw works from his early career through to the 63 Mona Lisa and Camouflage Last Supper. Highlights were definitely the portrait room with the walls lined with portraits from Warhol’s mother, to Liza Minnelli and Aretha Franklin and the Marilyn and Liz portraits up in another gallery.

After going through the rest of the gallery we headed off up the Highline which was pretty cold, but it’s a really unique way to get around, and fast as there are no traffic lights to wait for.

When we got down from the Highline we cut across town past Penn Station and Madison Square Garden towards the Empire State Building, in the hopes that the lines wouldn’t be too long.

Luckily the lines were non existent, and after getting the ticket and going through security we were up to the observation deck. The view from the Observation deck was great, it was pretty cold and windy up on some sides but the sun was really lovely too. Looking over to 30 rock which I went up last February was an interesting view.

After more walking back to the hotel and a quick turnaround we got some sushi at the hotel restaurant and headed to the Music Box for Dear Evan Hansen.

Having already seen this show last year I knew what I was in for - along with knowing the soundtrack and bonus tracks, but seeing the performance for a second time I found it personally more moving. Noticing that Larry Murphy (the father) breaking down in the act one finale was something I must have missed my first time. The performances were all stellar and it is such a touching and moving story.

[mylovelysophiabush-blog]

[sayskez]

Question Everything

How do you make a spy museum even better? Give it an awesome identity, of course. SomeOne developed Spyscape museum’s branding to ‘stimulate curiousity’. I love the way parts of the logotype and letters are ‘redacted’ through cutaways which makes it feel cryptic but still readable if you piece together the forms. But best of all is the reversed question marks to form the ‘s’s in the logotype, matching the secretive theme of ‘question everything’.

I’m not so sold on the wayfinding and interior design though, as it feels like it never really goes beyond the typography. But would have to walk around the building proper to judge (yes, this will be my excuse to justify visiting the museum someday).

found via Design Week

[istarlicious]

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