CAN you dig it?

So last night they were filming Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps at the New York Federal Reserve Building (and yes, Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen appear to be listed as members of the cast, according to IMDB). So since they helpfully floodlit the facade, I took advantage of the photo op. Nice, eh?

We were on the way to see this year's NYC CANstruction exhibit (they have contests in different US cities). I love those competitions since they donate all of the food (100,693 cans this year) to local food banks after each year's exhibit closes, and have posted photos on my Snapfish page, if you're curious.

Here's a photo of my favorite entry, PumpCAN Pie (does this count as food p*rn?), which while not as structurally challenging as the Walk/Don't Walk sign (the display changed depending on where you stood) or the 4-sided Beatles display (which won for best use of labels), still tickled my fancy.

It used over 2,500 cans of food, and the accompanying sign listed the "ingredients" such as the number of cans of creamed corn needed for the crust. Heh.

It's a good thing we went last night, because apparently one of the sculptures, which I think was based on the still in progress Shanghai Tower, collapsed this morning. My coworker Julia said it was the same location as the collapsed entry last year, which leads me to winder if there is some slight imbalance in the floor. Otherwise, the idea that a structural engineering firm built a structurally unsound object is a little unnerving!