My Pixie Blog

Two Wet Towers

As my Pentium 3, 1.8 GHz beast of a computer attempts to render my interior/exterior perspectives, with raytraced windows, I peruse through the internet with all the free time I have. I then stumble across the extraordinary fountains by Juame Plensa in Millenium Park, Chicago. Two 50-foot glass and steel towers with LED displays, and spouts that run a stream of water down the entire exterior, as well as shoot a jet of water from a point. Plensa took over 1,000 pictures of Chicagoans (Chicagonites, Chicagoneons?) which every 12 minutes display on the face of the tower facing the other tower, on each tower (look at the picture, get it). The images are animated, and the mouths of the people open to shoot the jet of water out. This gesture is to recall the city's gargoyles, whom also "spit" out water as a symbol of life.

Absolutely wonderfully done and applauded by the people of Chicago (see how I got around it there), parents and children flock to experience the fountains on these extremely hot and humid days of summer. So, because my rendering is still going, I'm going to go outside with my coworker and try to recreate the Plensa fountains- NY style. I'm going to tie his a** up to a hydrant, pop that baby open, let the gushing water explode off his helpless body, providing the rest of us that streaming abundance of cool fountain water. And I figure every 25 seconds after his mouth is overwhelmed with water, he will spit it out at those of us laughing at him, again cooling us in rapid fire. Oh man, he has no idea what's coming.

posted by Anonymous @ 10:55 AM