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    On the phone with my Dad.

    He says, "I saw on TV they have some waterfalls in New York."

    Short pause.

    I say, "Oh yeah, the sculptures."
   
    He says, "They don't look like waterfalls to me."

    I say, "They are some kind of art project."
   
    He says, "They don't look like my idea of a waterfall.  To me, a waterfall is where there is a cut in the rock worn down by the water, and the water rushes through it."

    I say, "That's a real waterfall.  We have those.  But this is an art installation."

    He says, "It looks like some kind of scaffolding made out of pipes, with a thing on top of it, kind of like an, an oil derrick."

    "It's art, Dad."

    Long pause.
   
    "It doesn't look like a waterfall."-

  

 

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Dan Stuart
Sunday, 29 June 2008
I guess I should upload a photo but there is absolutely no whimsy or wonder inspired by this installation. I've seen two of them both in daytime and at night, sober and tipsy and your average windmill at a miniature golf course has more artistic merit. NYC... the new Orlando, only less ironic. Sad.
davo
Sunday, 29 June 2008
so i suppose they look nothing like the conceptual sketchs, maybe they can set up a big slip and slide on wall street and call it a raging river...
Reno Sepulveda
Monday, 30 June 2008
And think of the electricity it takes to pump all that water. Bloomberg says it will all be worth it economically. How do such stupid people make so much money?
Dan Stuart
Monday, 30 June 2008
Bloomberg might be a lot of things but stupid ain't one of them... Christo's "The Gates" brought in 200 million on a 20 million expenditure and it ain't just a guess, there's a couple of different formulas used to ascertain shit like this and the 200 million is a conservative estimate. Of course, "The Gates" worked on a couple of different levels that "The Falls" just don't. What's more troubling is that NYC is fast becoming a tourist dependent city like Paris where every dollar is service economy or real estate oriented. Bring back the homeless ASAP.
davo
Monday, 30 June 2008
i think they are working on that on a national level
Monday, 30 June 2008
Right about the tourist dependent city. At least Paris started by subsidizing, in various ways, essential workers like nurses and firefighters and schoolteachers. The powers that be in NYC seem surprised when anyone outside the financial sector mentions they need more money to live. It would take one hundred percent of most workers' incomes to pay market rent or mortgage in Manhattan.
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