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This is interesting!
posted by
Straightforward
on April 26, 2008 at 4:25 PM
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fw, you are certainly one of the reasons
why I do come back here to write. Thanks for all the encouragement. Unfortunately you will miss THE GATES. They come down this weekend.
posted by
Cynthia
on February 24, 2005 at 4:38 AM
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Tapsel-T, thanks for the thumbs up...
posted by
Cynthia
on February 24, 2005 at 4:36 AM
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Cynthia - what a great trip and description
Sooo glad you are back. I tried to show pictures of the Gates to my daughter, but she couldn't relate. I soo wish we could have made the trip. We'll be in NYC in a couple of weeks.
posted by
fwmystic
on February 23, 2005 at 2:59 PM
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Cynthia - This is the best reporting on
The Gates that I have read. Good job.
posted by
TAPS.
on February 22, 2005 at 10:50 AM
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Telynor, it has been snowing
here in Boston since we got back from New York. If it snowed there too, I bet tHE GATES look fantasic against all that white stuff. Make the effort to go. You won't regret it.
posted by
Cynthia
on February 22, 2005 at 3:58 AM
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I'm going to try to get there next weekend, before the Gates vanish. I hope the weather will hold too. I really enjoyed reading your take on this, it sounds remarkable.
posted by
telynor
on February 21, 2005 at 10:05 PM
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Good.
I tried to explain Cristo's work to my Nigerian co-workers, and they think he's crazy.
The fellow who hiked the Trans African Transect a couple years ago trailed out a bio-degradable filament line from a device which measures the line and hence records your distance travelled.
Not as aesthetic as Cristo but he got the big C on linear feet, I reckon...
posted by
majroj
on February 21, 2005 at 8:27 PM
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Majroj, You're right, auctioning
them off is not what Christo is all about, but every scrap will be recycled. I confess I bought a print of one of the original drawings for THE GATES. All the proceeds from merchandise goes back to New York, to support NURTURE NEW YORKS NATURE, a non-profit charity.
posted by
Cynthia
on February 21, 2005 at 12:31 PM
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Hi Voyager, Wow, so close
and yet so far...after 911 i think everyone felt a little bit of a New Yorker.
posted by
Cynthia
on February 21, 2005 at 12:17 PM
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Excellent adventure.
I've read and seen more about the project since your last post. Sounds like a real experience; too bad they couldn't,say,auction the gates off...
Naw, then it wouldn't be Cristo.
posted by
majroj
on February 21, 2005 at 11:03 AM
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Dear Cynthia, this is splendid. When reading this it almost felt like I was present there( altough I'm about 4.500 miles away!). I like Christo's work, and learned a bit more here now about the man himself. How rare have non-selfish people become these days! Thanks for sharing this with us! See you around!
VOYAGER9940
posted by
Voyager9940
on February 21, 2005 at 10:59 AM
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