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[A-Schwarzenegger]

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[Duncan Grant]

1. I knew you were too cool.

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[A-Schwarzenegger]

2. I shoulda said christo AND Jeanne-Claude.

I saw the umbrellas.

http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/umFiles/umUSA.html

I see them still!

[Duncan Grant]

3. Amazing! Everything they do is EPIC.

I think the impact of art on this scale is underestimated. The shared community response is so vastly different than other public experiences (sports stadiums, mass transit, rock concerts, theater, etc.). I'm such an art geek - I love it.

Wish I could get to Central Park to see it: http://christojeanneclaude.net/tg.html

[Shredr]

4. Didn't one of the umbrellas fall on a woman's head and kill her?

Or is that just an urban myth I've never forgotten?

[RadicalMom]

5. I think so, but I'll see if I can find out. Look you're up to 202!

[Shredr]

6. Yay!

I'm feeling like I'm hitting my stride.

[RadicalMom]

7. It's not a myth, there were deaths...

Look at this:

* DART to the Los Angeles Times, for the unfurled hype (and furled self-interest) in its saturated coverage of "The Umbrellas of Christo," a $ 26 million project in which some 1,760, 488-pound, twenty-foot-tall yellow umbrellas were sprinkled along an eighteen-mile stretch of highway through California's scenic Tejon Pass. As had been accurately forecast in the October issue of Los Angeles Magazine, the Times provided a most favorable climate for the Bulgarian artist and his bumbershoots -- some thirteen articles and nine photos in the twenty days between October 8 and October 27 (when one of the umbrellas, uprooted by wind, caused a fatal injury, bringing the exhibit abruptly to a close), and some five more accident-related stories and five more photos between October 27 and November 1 (when a worker was electrocuted during the dismantling of Christo's sister project in Japan). Despitse the deluge, however, nowhere in its coverage did the Times see fit to mention that 30 percent of the stock of the Tejon Ranch Company -- on whose 270,000 acres of investable, developable land half of the umbrellas were installed -- happens to be owned by the Times Mirror Company, the paper's parent. Nor did it report on the prescience with which a TRC vice-president had told Los Angeles Magazine, <"Christo's Umbrellas> will bring us the kind of publicity we couldn't pay for."

[Shredr]

8. That's right, someone was struck by lightning

On one of his other projects. I saw the umbrellas from the freeway when they were up, it was quite a spectacle.

[RadicalMom]

9. are you from Southern California, too, or were you visiting?

[Shredr]

10. I live in LA.

Well, Santa Monica. I was going to USC when the umbrellas were up. Just drove up to see them. Did you see them?

[RadicalMom]

11. No. I didn't get to see them. I think they were scaring us away with

traffic nightmare stories. I liked that project. I live in Thousand Oaks, between LA and Santa Barbara, in the footholls of the Santa Monica Mountains. If you watched the Reagan funeral, they went a few blocks from my house when they exited the freeway. The only thing I've ever done at the Reagan Library was change my daughter's diaper. I needed a place, you know? Resisted any urge to donate it, though.