>> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
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>> ... enough of turning this city into a theme park!
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> Hate to say it, but I thought The Gates was fun. The color was more
> garish than I'd expected, and I sort of felt like a sucker for being
> there freezing in the middle of Central Park on a blustery February
> day. But there was definitely a festive feeling in the air.
> • 15,000 specially designed, recyclable, cast aluminum upper corner
> reinforcements which hold together the 2 vertical poles to the
> horizontal pole.
> • 15,000 (1/2 inch x 8 inch x 8 inch) (1.27 x 22,8 x 22,8 cm.) steel
> leveling plates. The leveling plate is between the base anchor sleeve
> and the steel base, it has a pivoting bolt which will ensure the perfect
> verticality of the poles, even when the walkways are inclined.
> • 116,389 miles (187,311 Km.) of nylon thread to be extruded in saffron
> color and specially woven into 1,067,330 square feet (99,155 square
> meters) of recyclable, rip-stop fabric, and then shipped to the sewing
> factory to be cut and sewn into 7,500 fabric panels of various widths.
> 46 miles (74 Km.) of hems.
Recyclable in this context means that the Christos will recycle pieces of the project to people who want a keepsake (documentation) of the Gates. This is how they raise money.
BTW, Doug, I think you mean the capitalist abomination that has been inflicted on Mid-Manhattan, not a more organic theme park commercialism that often gives cities their quirky charm.
In other words, Disney out of Manhattan!
Somebody with a fine arts degree,
Chuck