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For my summer digital media class final review I made this:

(Go to YouTube and watch it in High Quality!)

After the Civil War but before being shot, Lincoln decides that a big-ass building would totally unite the country. Money that would have been funneled into the military flows like a river of glorious gold into the new Tower of Freedom. FDR picks it up as the core of the New Deal, ushering in a new era of peace, prosperity, and civil engineering. Architects, far from being the dirty whores of society, become its pampered concubines. HOWEVER, all is not well: bitter pro-war agitators, angry at the tower’s diversion of military funds, plot to bomb the tower. In September 1971 Freedom Tower crumbles in a midnight raid of dozens armed with pointy sticks. An enraged President Robert F. Kennedy declares the Tower to be the very foundation of the country, and reconstruction begins anew, bringing America’s second Golden Age and manifesting its true destiny.

The best part about this project was that it was 100% the fun part (making cool things) and 0% the boring part (figuring out the practical stuff). Putting together a neo-Baroque building was surprisingly fun—it sure beats having to make something “new” all the damn time.

(A sunset view of the Tower of Freedom.)

(A biblical view of the Tower of Freedom.)