Digital Printing

Times Square Prison

A simulated prison scene is designed to advertise the DVD release of HBO’s third season of Oz.

Published

19 years ago

February 6, 2006

Jacob Rieskamp Signs of the Times March 2006 Issue

Visitors to New York’s Times Square have been sent to prison. A simulated prison scene atop a Times Square building was designed to advertise the DVD release of HBO’s third season of Oz, a prison-life drama. Created by Atomic Props and Effects (St. Paul, MN) and Levy Lighting (New York City), the eye-catching ad includes a "barbed wire" fence created from painted pipe cleaners. Complete with prison guards, an 8 x 10-ft., steel-and-wood guard tower atop an 18-ft.-high steel truss was paneled with opaque white Plexiglas

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