Thomas Locke Hobbs

50 Million Christo Fans Can't be Wrong

Along with art-loving New Yorkers and seemingly half the EU, I spent a good portion of the weekend enjouing Christo & Jean Claude's The Gates in Central Park. And, like every other photoblogger in New York, I'll essentially be surrendering this blog to Christo-mania til Feb. 27th.

The best parts were in the northern half of the park; The Great Hill, North Fields and Harlem Mews. There were fewer people and the vistas were better.

Here's a Gate being unfurled. There weren't many left by noon on Saturday but my friend Steven reports that people followed the volunteers around and cheered at each unfurling.

I got a free swatch. When backlit, the fabric really glows. When the sun is to the side it shimmers altho when it's lit straight on the color is a bit washed out. I'm recommending to people that they start from the northern end of the park and walk south so that the sun is always lighting up the Gates from behind.

The best faraway views aren't necessarily from the highpoints but rather across the meadows and lakes. I didn't make it to the rooftop of the Met as it was a zoo this weekend.

Some links: Blue Jake's photos [he posts much higher resolution photos than I do], Felix Salmon's Commentary, Design Observer's Commentary [somewhat negative], Greg Allen's analysis on how they costs $20million [they shouldn't].

Monday, February 14, 2005

Hi. I'm a 32 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. Currently I'm posting most of my pictures on BuenosAiresPhotographer.com. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.