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Christo and Jeanne Claude

 
 
ehBeth
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 11:38 am
Did you click on the box that said
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check to start a gallery with this image
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 11:50 am
photos were too big...


http://img200.exs.cx/img200/963/thegates0086no.th.jpg
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 11:53 am
http://img197.exs.cx/img197/9886/thegates0108tv.th.jpg
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littlek
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 11:53 am
nice, I like your shot better than the one of the front page of the globe.

<hey, a bunch of us were worried about Frank, have you heard from him lately?>
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sozobe
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 11:55 am
Edgar said that he's just busy with golf these days.

Well I'm not sure of "just". Busy with golf, didn't figure out if he's also not feeling well.
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 11:57 am
No, I was beginning to wonder myself..



http://img182.exs.cx/img182/5631/thegates0140ef.th.jpg
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 11:59 am
oh, like that last one
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sozobe
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 12:00 pm
Loving these pics, Joe, thanks.

What keeps making an impression on me is the live/dead contrast -- vibrant colors and movement against the bare gray skeletons of trees.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 12:02 pm
the movement is really working for me


Joe - do the pix seem better to you than the installation did 'live and in person'?



I've also just sent a note to Frank. He promised me a walk. :wink:
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sozobe
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 12:07 pm
By the way what happens for me when I click on the pictures is as it starts loading it's too big for my screen, then when it's all finished it adjusts and is perfectly sized. (Large but can see the whole thing.) Not sure what is causing that automatic adjustment, but works great from my end.
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 12:08 pm
Just a reminder: This part of Central Park is the most forested, wildest, (if you can be wild this deep in the city),(I saw cardinals and two redhead woodpeckers this morning.) so the gates are especially odd in this setting.

from this morning:
http://img191.exs.cx/img191/7361/thegates0117rr.th.jpg
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sozobe
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 12:09 pm
Wow. Olmstead was a smartie.
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 12:12 pm
I can't see Robert Frost writing a poem about this road in a woods.

http://img195.exs.cx/img195/2053/thegates0130cz.th.jpg

And this is what I mean by seeming to be a construction site. As you come up over this rocky outcrop this is what you see in the distance. I thought for a second it was a barn....

http://img227.exs.cx/img227/5278/thegates0046iu.th.jpg
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 12:12 pm
I'm enjoying the photos but I can only see Francis' pics, and then the last three Joe posted on this page, great photos. The rest are image x's. Hmmm, probably my computer.

Rats, I still don't know what I think.
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littlek
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 12:13 pm
beautiful - thanks for the photos, Joe!

And thanks for the info on frank......
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 12:18 pm
Does this one fits?

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gismonda/images/central.jpg
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sozobe
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 12:21 pm
Those blocky things bother me. I read somewhere that they were originally supposed to dig 15,000 holes, put the posts straight in, that'd be a lot better esthetically. I get that this is more temporary, remove 'em in 16 days and no sign of their presence, but it messes with the line. Directs your attention down when your attention should be directed up.
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littlek
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 12:21 pm
Yeah, I think as I heard about it it grew into something more amazing, in my mind, than it is in reality.
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eoe
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 12:23 pm
thank you thank you thank you for the photos.

The absolute symmetry of it all is what fascinates me. The precision.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Sun 13 Feb, 2005 12:24 pm
True. But also how it's both, precision and then organic shapes as the fabric does its own thing. Lots of interplay, lots of contrasts.
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