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How You Like Them Apples?
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Jen Carlson
Published Dec 11, 2009
Modified Dec 11, 2009
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Viral videos are okay when they're for a good cause, right? City Harvest has a pretty neat one out where the star of the show is... the apple! Take a look:
Fittingly enough, the ad was filmed on an iPhone... but just how did they get all those other apples in the subway system? They didn't, of course. If you want to look behind the curtain, there's a video after the jump explaining how it was all done.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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