Fellow Denver pub Westword contacted me yesterday about my mini-obsession with that Tetris building. You know, the one that had windows broken out to form Tetris pieces.

Joel Warner was working on a story for Westword's blog about the Internet. He used the story to point out that while some people are trying to "clean up" the blogosphere, which he describes as a mess, chock full of factually questionable information, often people just don't care.

Very true. Still worth doing< I think, when it benefits your readers.

On Tuesday, Crecente posted his Tetris photo on his video game blog, Kotaku. That image looks very similar to those posted on December 3 by DenverInfill as part of a story about a new Embassy Suites tower going up on the property.

This led to yesterday being the "day of hell," says Gonzalez. About two dozen pending prints of his Tetris vandalism photo were canceled. A photo editor called to warn him about manipulating photos. He received numerous angry e-mails and calls from strangers — and a couple of death threats. Through it all, he maintains his innocence. "I didn't mess with the window panes. It does look funky, but I took the shot seven months ago. A lot changes in seven months," he says, adding he has the negatives to prove it. "The logic is, why if it's fake, would I have given him the address? And I wish he had contacted me before he put up the post."

Both Gonzalez and Crecente are amazed at the online clamor generated by their blogs . "Who cares in the end?" asks Gonzalez. "It's just getting somewhat ridiculous."

Crecente agrees. "I don't like being in position of debunking a picture. The weird thing is, who cares if he did fake it? I still think it's a neat image." - Joel Warner

Indeed, I'm actually playing around with the idea of buying a copy... if he'd sell it to me. Brian Crecente

Blog Eat Blog [Westword]

Daily Snap shot this picture (the first one up there) of a building in downtown Denver six months ago and plopped it on his site. In the photo caption he said that he noticed the building while walking around Denver at that after staring at it for a few minutes he realized that someone had broken Tetrominoes into the windows.

The pic quickly got tons of attention from lots of gaming sites. But besides people saying that it was fake, no one did anything to see if it was. So I emailed Daily Snap to find out exactly where this building was located. He told me, adding that the picture was taken months ago and that some of the glass has since been broken out and some replaced. Hmmmm, seemed oddly defensive. Also, isn't it strange that a building currently being demolished would have glass replaced?

So I headed out to the building yesterday and took my own pictures of the windows (the second up there). There certainly are some Tetris pieces up there in the glass. Two of them to be exact. If you compare my pic to Daily Snap's you'll notice that it appears in his picture that someone took vandalism that looked like it could have formed Tetris pieces and finished off the job. So, either that someone did so with photoshop or you have to buy the story that a building currently being demolished had eight tiny squares of broken glass replaced. And that those eight bits of glass were only the ones that happened to form Tetris pieces, the scores of other broken glass windows were left untouched.

Sorry, I just don't buy it. Hit the jump for more pics of the building's broken glass, strange mural and... a clean palette? Brian Crecente