Well, I guess it is technically for Thursday.
Starting tomorrow and running through October 13th, the city is getting 4 waterfalls. Olafur Eliasson’s “The New York City Waterfalls” has been installed around the city. Although organized by the City and the Public Art Fund, the project is totally funded from private supporters, corporations and other foundations, with no city funds being put towards it. Now on to the project itself
“The New York City Waterfalls” are 4 waterfalls that have been installed in various locations along the river. You’ll find them at at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge (in Brooklyn), Pier 35 (by the Manhattan Bridge), near the Brooklyn Heights Promenade (between Piers 4 & 5) and by Governors Island.
The waterfalls will be active between 7am and 10pm so if you travel along the bridges you may get a chance to see them during your daily commute. Otherwise you can venture out to see them in your free time.
the pictures from the ‘pre-dawn’ test look pretty stunning and it looks like this could be something incredible to check-out around the city this summer right around sunset.
The project is similar to one that Eliasson did in Austria in 2000 and Madrid in 2003, but on a much grander scale. You can learn more about him and his work here.
First a welcome back to me, I am once again trying to get back to writing on a regular basis, I am going to try and start off slowly and build to my previous posting levels, so without further ado:
Here at AmericanMadness we have not been huge fans of the law that requires chain restaurants to post calorie counts. Essentially we feel that the information provided can be misleading since it goes by the assumption that th only concern with food should be the amount of calories you are taking in.
Now we have another problem with it: Over at CellarDoor they have a post with pictures from 2 Dunkin’ Donuts, both located in Penn Station. 1 of them listing the calorie count on a Chocolate Glazed donut at 80 calories and the other listing it at 340 calories. Both are printed up in the official D & D way so which is to be believed? Or maybe they are both right, maybe each Dunkin’ Donuts in the city is using different recipes and cooking methods and that is why they get different calorie counts. Or the donuts on the left could be almost 1/4 the size of the ones on the right, there are so many possibilities that I decided to ask Dunkin’ Donuts to explain it. I am still waiting for a response.
Also in the realm of calorie counting: Read more »
I’ve written often on this site about the propaganda tactics used to create the false impression of a scientific consensus about the effect of C02 on the earth’s climate. Because of this many people probably don’t see me as an environmentalist, but the truth is that I do care deeply about creating a clean environment where humans can live in relative symbiosis with nature. Part of my motivation for moving to New York City was the fact that urban dwelling just seemed like logical best approach to living in a world which will have 9 billion inhabitants in the not too distant future.
That being said, I was rather disappointed to see Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan go down in flames. Unlike his Olympic Bid and the West Side stadium, this proposal actually seemed to make sense. New York City is simply not designed to support massive numbers of vehicles. If most people did not already take public transport, the system would not work at all. As the population swells and more and more cars try to jam themselves into the The City the system will break down.
I’d like to ride my bike on my city’s streets without having to fear for my life. I’d like to be able to ride on a public transportation system that isn’t a relic from 1965 (The $350 million for public transport that Albany denied us will ensure that this does not happen). I’d like to be able to breath cleaner air.
The Legislature in Albany, who always seem to have New York City’s worst interests at heart, have denied me and other New Yorkers the right to live in a decent environment, so that they can drive their stinking SUVs into The City whenever they feel like it, without paying a toll for the misery it causes the rest of us.
