Olafur Eliasson rap, via Rod Aminian. I nearly peed myself at the mad disses this guy is slinging. The sun thing at the Tate was rad, but his silly hose frame under the Brooklyn Bridge was downright embarrassing. Gee, lets take something that should be awesome (50 foot urban waterfalls) and then put them next to the only things imaginable that will make them seem small and inconsequential, like the Brooklyn Goddamned Bridge. Way to go, smart guy. It only looked cool when artificially lit through a 4x5 camera on a two-minute exposure…at night. Then again, New York City paid him $15 million to install some scaffolding and fire hoses to serve as a tourist trap so I’m sure he’s stoked.
I think that $15 million dollars worth of concrete dinosaurs and giant thermometers spread throughout the city would have been cooler.
