http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=114294

Yes, I have read that article and I think it's well written.

The building reminds me of the monolith in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Me too. Also resembles the UN building in NYC.

Btw, have you read this piece on Kubrick's 2001 by Jay Weidner? 

http://www.jayweidner.com/kubrick.htm

I forget who, here, originally posted a link to it. But it's fascinating. Many Kubrick/2001 fans would enjoy it.

Xzentrico,

What are those 3 orange objects that look like "humanoid" gas pumps in front of the Grey Bldg?

And could you pls also tell us the meaning of these words in this URL:

http://www.mehrzweckbeutel.de/staubsaug … tanten.jpg

mehrweckbeutel
staubsauger
beutelbilder
mutanten

Any significance in this?
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Yes, Grey Worldwide/Advertising/Interactive. Two ex-colleagues of my hub have recently joined this company. They're both in their mid-30s, both alcoholic, both supremely materialistic having no apparent interest in anything other than drinking and/or making money. Well as far as drinking goes, they're certainly in the right profession! Btw, we've known one of them for over a year and a half, the other for almost 5 yrs. One of them's been at Grey for about a month and a half, the other only for a few weeks, and they both are constantly telling my hub to come and work there. But, he's not interested as he's really comfortable where he is right now, not at an agency, in a reasonably low-stress job, minor/manageable office politics, and more... As for me, I have worked in 3 ad agencies and you couldn't print enuff money to make me spend another day in another one! The ultimate in cutthroat, soul-sucking environments if you ask me.

And yes, we are ever so clean...  Keeping the surface scrupulously clean, they seem to have Lady's Macbeth syndrome in european big cities. It is not a natural order resulting from the good will of good people, it is more a neurotic reaction to what is going on behind the courtains, i think.

Interesting insight!

The building reminds me of the monolith in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey".

" Can you elaborate any further on how people act or behave as OPs, robots, borgs, teletubbies, etc. in Dusseldorf?  What do they do or say?"

Sure. but i have to get some sleep first. I myself am a borg, an agressive one, when overtired.
  And yes, we are ever so clean...  Keeping the surface scrupulously clean, they seem to have Lady's Macbeth syndrome in european big cities. It is not a natural order resulting from the good will of good people, it is more a neurotic reaction to what is going on behind the courtains, i think.
  here is another picture of another alien fortress:

http://www.duesseldorf-today.rp-online. … itlich.jpg

I happen to live just next door to this thing...and there is a military base within a stone's throw from my house. With black helicopters and stuff. Now they want to move a part of it somewhere else and to build new clean & neat houses there, houses for families with many children. A very social action, how very nice of the military officials.

XT-C

"CREATE VALUE - THAT'S GREY!
IT doesn't matter where you're going - GREY is already there."

"What can Brown do for you?" - UPS

  haha

Sorry.

Thanks for the post XzenTriCo and welcome to the forum.   Can you elaborate any further on how people act or behave as OPs, robots, borgs, teletubbies, etc. in Dusseldorf?  What do they do or say?

(on an unrelated sidenote, anytime I see pictures of major cities in Europe, namely Germany, Switzerland, Austria, I'm always struck by how *clean* and neat they are.  They just look so much better than here in the U.S. in every way.)

I'm a human (?) being from Germany, i live in Duesseldorf:  "the communal portal of the federal state of North-Rhine Westphalia.  Düsseldorf is the bustling Rhine metropolis right in the heart of Europe and has its residents and visitors a lot to offer.(hahaha)
Thanks to its excellent location in the heart of Europe and its ideal traffic infrastructure Düsseldorf is perfectly suited to provide you with easy access to the entire European market
Düsseldorf has a population of 571,000
More than 100,000 companies operate in the Düsseldorf business region, 39,000 of these within the city limits
9 million people live in a 50 kilometer radius
Düsseldorf occupies a leading position in German foreign trade
Düsseldorf has been Japan ´s key business center on the European continent for many years
In the meantime other countries from the Middle East, such as Korea and Taiwan, have discovered the international business center Düsseldorf

About 100 consulates, foreign economic and tourism promotion organizations facilitate bilateral business contacts
International Schools with 750 pupils from 35 countries
(American, Japanese, Francaise and Greek)
International Companies in Düsseldorf
750 Netherlands
450 USA
450 Japan
350 Great Britain
250 France
90 Taiwan
40 Korea

KEY INDUSTRIES: Trade

   Information & Communication

   Media

   Biotech

   Advertising

   Fashion

   Services

TRADE:  2,500 wholesale businesses employing in excess of 30,000 people
   4,300 retail companies employing 30,000 people and operating 727,000 square meters of sales space
   Retail revenue per capita: 46% above German average
800 agencies employing about 6,000 people

Düsseldorf -LEADING LOCATION FOR THE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY:
More than 1,500 companies are based here
24,000 people are employed in this industry
more than 5,000 jobs have been created in the past 5 years
more than 30 network operators located in Düsseldorf
Leading location for mobile communications with the bases of Vodafone, E-Plus mobile communications, Ericsson and Nokia 
Foreign Companies
Alps Electric, Anritsu, Canon, Cisco, Epson, Ericsson, Fuji Photo Film, Hitachi, Kyocera, Nokia, Oracle, NEC, NTT, OKI Systems, Tulip, Sun Microsystems, TDK

The MediaHarbor Düsseldorf is home to 270 companies and in excess of 5,000 employees

BIOTECH:
Excellent conditions for companies from the biotech sector in the BioRegion Rheinland, the triangle of Düsseldorf - Cologne - Aachen
More than 130 biotech companies in NRW, 29 of these in the Düsseldorf area alone
More than 320 suppliers and service providers in NRW
Heinrich-Heine-University with 25,000 students, 9,000 of these in medical and scientific faculties
Sart-ups originating from the Heinrich-Heine-University generate more than 50% of all German biotech companies revenues
LifeScience Center: a technology center and incubator provides space to grow for young start-ups as well as established companies
Further biotech center "Bio Park Flehe" is now being developed to the Heinrich-Heine-University
You can order the new brochure "Life Science in Düsseldorf" directly here:  Publications 
Biotech Companies in the Düsseldorf Region
Air Liquide Kryotechnik, Alphabiocare, Bayer CropScience, Behr Labor-Technik, BioRetard, Cardion, Evotec Technologies, Diagenics AG, Henkel KG, Kourion Therapeutics, Monsanto Agrar Deutschland, Neuraxo Biotech, NewLab BioQuality AG, Orthogen AG, Peptor, Pharma Waldhof, Qiagen AG, Rhein Biotech, Schwarz Pharma AG, Serotec

FASHION CITY DUESSELDORF:
World-wide renowned fashion trade fairs
CPD woman - man düsseldorf
CPD xsite
CPD body - beach düsseldorf
CPD fabrics düsseldorf
GDS - International Shoe Fair
Premiere Schuh
Beauty International

  1,400 companies with an annual turnover of 15 billion Euro
Reputable companies: Anson ´s Herrenhaus, C&A Moden KG, Garant Schuh AG, Peek & Cloppenburg, Comma, Esprit, Diesel, Hirsch
  Associated companies: Christian Dior, L ´Oréal, Sara Lee and Shiseido

DUESSELDORF - LEADING GERMAN ADVERTISING LOCATION:
1,000 agencies with more than 7,000 employees
Base of Germany ´s TOP 3 agencies
BBDO Group Deutschland
Grey Group Deutschland
Publicis Group Deutschland
These companies generate 52% of the TOP 10 turnover
  4 companies among the German TOP 10. They generate 57% of the TOP 10 turnover
  10 companies among the German TOP 100. They generate 34% of the TOP 100 turnover
   Foreign agencies: Ogilvy & Mather, Hakuhodo, Dentsu
   Selected TOP 100 Advertising Agencies
BBDO-Group, Grey Global Group, Publicis Group, DDB Group, Citigate Group, BMZ, Euro RSCG Grop, Rempen & Partner, Cayenne Group, Gramm, Red Cell, Hakuhodo, Dentsu, Ogily & Mather."

Now, i have these infos from the official internet site. No, i am NOT proud to live in this city. It really SUCKS. The "atmosphere" here is awfully commercial, with all the problems and horrors of a big industrial centre.
WHY do i bother to quote all the boring statistics?
Well, one day i took a closer look at the NAMES OF THE LEADING COMPANIES, then i visited some of thier internet portals...and my life has become very much  like The X-Files since then. It is so obvious that almost or even all of the local industry is in "their" hands (or tentacles) .
The most disturbing thing is that "they" have been VERY successful in negative re-programming of humans. It is amazing how robotic people are here. I've been to other parts of Germany and also abroad and i must tell that the general mood in Duesseldorf is much much worse as in the areas, which are less "developed". My city is one of the best places to study such phenomena as organic portals, alien abduction, mind control, emotion manipulation...any thing. I am the lucky one to be a witness of the rapidly increasing alien influx in ALL spheres of business and entertaiment, i see it happening every day and it happens on a REALLY large scale.
I watch my campus friends being mind-f***ed and programmed to be perfect computers, i see my fellow students becoming borgs and/or mindlessly happy teletubbies.
  So, enough of my laments.  I think you all know that big cities are strongholds of  the Greys.
                       But...
Here is a thing i've been brooding about since a few weeks: The biggest and the most successful advertising company here is GREY WORLDWIDE!
I am not kidding, it is how they call themselves. As i checked out their online portal, i just thought to myself: Oh holy sh*T, the secret is out now...but how comes that almost nobody sees it?
blah blah...
Anyway, check the link below out, it is REALLY INTERESTING. LOL.

  http://www.grey.com/greyglobalgroupcontent.html

What do you think?

here is a photo of the main entrance of GREY WORLDWIDE in Duesseldorf, the company is huge and occupies a few large buildings.
  http://www.mehrzweckbeutel.de/staubsaug … tanten.jpg

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"CREATE VALUE - THAT'S GREY!
IT doesn't matter where you're going - GREY is already there."
(Grey worldwide business philosophy, tkaen from the original,lololol)

XT-C