The Waterfalls Start Falling
[nggallery id=”22379″ template=galleryview] At 7 a.m. this morning, the Olafur Eliasson-designed waterfalls started cascading at four locations around the city. We’ve got photos here of two: The one under the Brooklyn Bridge (shot from the new Pop-Up Park—more on that later) and the one between piers 4 and 5. (The other two are on Governor’s…
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At 7 a.m. this morning, the Olafur Eliasson-designed waterfalls started cascading at four locations around the city. We’ve got photos here of two: The one under the Brooklyn Bridge (shot from the new Pop-Up Park—more on that later) and the one between piers 4 and 5. (The other two are on Governor’s Island and Pier 35 in Manhattan.) Wish we’d had a boat to go out in this morning! Update: Gothamist has a short video (with nice sound) posted here.
Waterfalls Project Rising in Brooklyn Bridge Park [Brownstoner]
Waterfall Art Project Coming to Life Under the Bridge [Brownstoner]
Thanks bxgrl. While your interpretation is dead on, I was trying to give an example outside of New York City – maybe the Great Wall was a poor one. How about the classic Parisian who has never gone up the Eiffel Tower or the Arc de Triomphe? Or the classic Egyptian who doesn’t visit the Pyramids at Giza and the Sphinx? Ok, you get the idea…
Don’t give bxgrl any ideas.
Don’t give the Fed any ideas, bxgrl!
I think he was trying to illustrate that well known phenomenon of the classic New Yorker who has never been to the top of the Empire State building or the Statue of Liberty.
Our Mayor has not yet seen fit to explain how the waterfalls will generate that money unless its to generate electric power to run the print machines at the US treasury 🙂
I am a visiting my child kind of tourist. I saw them this am as I left for home. I thought they were a lovely contrast to the hard bridge. Just like a waterfall in a lobby looks good, not art but pleasant. That said how will they generate
55 mill in income. Will they be selling sno globe replicas.?
To Biff Champion, the wall in China is loaded with Chinese people. The Olympics may make it different this summer but in spite of everything you read there are still not so many Western tourists.
“the remnants of a primordial Eden”… Roberta Smith and the NYT are officially done, as far as serious criticism. This project looks likes something you’d see in a W Hotel lobby.
Crap site installation that is one step beyond a fountain at a suburban mall in ’60s whereverland.
5:23- why do you care what only I think? I’m obviously so important to you that you just can’t leave me alone. as for knowing what I spend my money on- you have absolutely no idea. But to give you an inkling why I care :”Lower Manhattan Development Corporation contributed $2 million.”- LMDC is not a private donor.
Now, why do you care?
Things to do list:
1) Find wholesale connection for Mr. Bubble
2) Rent boat
just what brooklyn needs to turn into disneyland.