Artist to build four giant waterfalls in New York

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Posted by leph555 on Jan-18-2008 17:35:

Artist to build four giant waterfalls in New York

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four giant waterfalls will be erected in New York for three months this summer in a public art project city officials hope will create $55 million in extra tourism revenue for the Big Apple.
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The waterfalls, including one that will fall from the famed Brooklyn Bridge, are the brainchild of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Installation will cost $15 million, funded by private donations to New York's Public Art Fund.

"It's about seeing water in a different way," Eliasson told a news conference on Wednesday, unveiling plans for the waterfalls, which will range in height from 90 to 120 feet -- around the same as the Statue of Liberty from head to toe.

Three of the waterfalls will cascade into the East River and New York Harbor from free-standing scaffolding towers that Eliasson said were part of his artistic vision, mirroring the scaffolding towers that sprout up throughout New York. The falls will be in place from mid-July to mid-October.

City officials are hoping to emulate the success of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's project, "The Gates," which drew around 1.5 million visitors to the city in February 2005 to view about7,500 saffron panels draped through Central Park.

Increased hotel, restaurant and other business revenues linked to the waterfalls should bring an additional $55 million to the city's economy, Deputy Mayor Patricia Harris said.

The Circle Line boat company will offer free and discounted trips to give visitors a closer look at the waterfalls.

But Eliasson said Circle Line boats would not be able to get as close to the water as tourist boats do to New York state's most famous waterfall, Niagara Falls, on the Canadian border.

"It's quite a lot of water, it would not be good to go under," Eliasson said. The scaffolding will have a floating barrier at the bottom to stop small boats going underneath and a "shark cage" under the water to stop fish being sucked into the pumps that will take the water to the top.

The pumps will be powered by renewable energy sources and the falls will be lit only by low-level lighting at night that Eliasson said would be "not Las Vegas-style."

Eliasson, who was born in Copenhagen in 1967, is best known for his 2003 installation "The Weather Project" at the Tate Modern in London, a giant sun made of mirrors, lamps and mist that drew over 2 million viewers.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080116...waterfalls_dc_1

this is going to be some sick ass shit

Posted by goodgreef on Jan-18-2008 17:40:

wierd, but very cool.
Art is so ... subjective lol.

Posted by iammesol on Jan-18-2008 20:06:

That's soooo sick.

Posted by Zewad on Jan-18-2008 20:08:

it'd be cooler if they were permanent

Posted by Rinster on Jan-18-2008 20:12:

cool!..

Posted by l�cid on Jan-18-2008 20:17:

pretty cool concept.

The Gates was pretty fucking wacky too.

stuff like that makes me miss NY.

Posted by b i n k u n on Jan-18-2008 20:37:

The Weather Project installation was f*ckin' amazing.....may have to take a trip back to NYC to see this when it's done.

Posted by Fibonacci on Jan-18-2008 21:41:

thats fucking stupid. you can't even jump in a wooden barrel and rock that shit.

Posted by nefardec on Jan-19-2008 01:06:

awesome, can't wait to see it

Posted by jpisani on Jan-19-2008 01:08:

It can't be worse then the orange gates...

this one I actually wouldn't mind checking out, seems like a cool idea.

Posted by smokeape on Jan-19-2008 01:15:

Money would be better spent checking and replacing the truss plates on the old bridge after the Minneapolis failure. Reckon that's not cool though, so let it collapse with a nice little waterfall underneath for a dramatic effect.

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Posted by MeLLyMeL on Jan-19-2008 01:17:

Read that in the NY post earlier this week.

Good stuff.

If I see it, I see it. I hope not though haha.

Posted by jpisani on Jan-19-2008 01:25:

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Originally posted by smokeape
Money would be better spent checking and replacing the truss plates on the old bridge after the Minneapolis failure. Reckon that's not cool though, so let it collapse with a nice little waterfall underneath for a dramatic effect.

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They already checked them, and this is funded by private donations...

Posted by smokeape on Jan-19-2008 02:47:

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Originally posted by jpisani
They already checked them, and this is funded by private donations...

Cool. Go ahead and proceed. You didn't state the results of the check, but lead us to believe that you're the authority on these specific engineering matters.

Private funding for a waterfall has nothing to do with a corroding bridge.

Good try though.

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Posted by jpisani on Jan-19-2008 03:38:

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Originally posted by smokeape
Cool. Go ahead and proceed. You didn't state the results of the check, but lead us to believe that you're the authority on these specific engineering matters.
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I didn't lead you to believe anything, I just simply stated that they were checked. (Heres something I just pulled up since you seem like you care about it. Link)

quote:
Originally posted by smokeape
Private funding for a waterfall has nothing to do with a corroding bridge.
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EXACTLY!!!!! Youre the one who brought this up.

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Originally posted by smokeape

Good try though.

Thanks!