acute.org has some nice photos of the greenpoint gas tank implosions. Brooklynkid has some pictures of the tanks before hand, including one showing where the explosives were attached. Rumor has it that Steve has some film of this same event.
I picked it up from the lab yesterday and watched it last night. It looks pretty good. The next film night at the Parkside Lounge (first monday in August) will feature some footage of the implosion.
Here's an animated .gif of that gas tank implosion picture series.
you needed to be on the roof of that yellow building
Hmm…not sure about those comments, I guess it comes up every year around this time?
But seeing this post reminds me of a curious installation that cropped up on the Pulaski Bridge recently. A series of 10 vaguely Judd-esque steel boxes were installed on the guard wall along the pedestrian walk. They turned out to be naturally illuminated light boxes, containing a sequential series of photos of the tank implosion, reading left to right, with an explanatory text in the final box. They are credited to an organization called Place in History.The project isn’t documented on their website, but it’s an interesting idea, drawing associations between the tank implosion and the Trade Center collapse, which would have been visible from the same spot, looking in the opposite direction. I hadn’t made the connection before, and I was surprised to realize that the events had occurred within a couple of months of each other, an example of the “before and after” effect of 9/11; the implosion belonging to some other, previous world, indistinctly remembered.
The project is almost, but not quite an artwork, and the text speaks in an institutional voice about “our” voyeuristic fascination with the destruction, concluding that it’s hard not to feel ashamed of such attraction after 9/11. Someone graffitied “I am not ashamed of my fascination” on the last box (since cleaned) and I think that’s a legitimate response. Probably the thing would have been better just as images, without any explanation.
As noted above I shot footage of the tank implosions. The next roll of film I put through the camera was used to capture the WTC collapse two months later. I have always been dissapointed that the events were not recorded on the same piece of film but figure that splicing them together would be cheating and ultimately uninteresting.
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- jim 7-16-2001 2:32 pm
I picked it up from the lab yesterday and watched it last night. It looks pretty good. The next film night at the Parkside Lounge (first monday in August) will feature some footage of the implosion.
- steve 7-17-2001 2:22 pm
Here's an animated .gif of that gas tank implosion picture series.
- jim 7-23-2001 5:07 pm
you needed to be on the roof of that yellow building
- Skinny 7-23-2001 10:01 pm
- anonymous (guest) 11-27-2002 4:53 pm
- anonymous (guest) 11-01-2003 8:39 pm
Hmm…not sure about those comments, I guess it comes up every year around this time?
But seeing this post reminds me of a curious installation that cropped up on the Pulaski Bridge recently. A series of 10 vaguely Judd-esque steel boxes were installed on the guard wall along the pedestrian walk. They turned out to be naturally illuminated light boxes, containing a sequential series of photos of the tank implosion, reading left to right, with an explanatory text in the final box. They are credited to an organization called Place in History.The project isn’t documented on their website, but it’s an interesting idea, drawing associations between the tank implosion and the Trade Center collapse, which would have been visible from the same spot, looking in the opposite direction. I hadn’t made the connection before, and I was surprised to realize that the events had occurred within a couple of months of each other, an example of the “before and after” effect of 9/11; the implosion belonging to some other, previous world, indistinctly remembered.
The project is almost, but not quite an artwork, and the text speaks in an institutional voice about “our” voyeuristic fascination with the destruction, concluding that it’s hard not to feel ashamed of such attraction after 9/11. Someone graffitied “I am not ashamed of my fascination” on the last box (since cleaned) and I think that’s a legitimate response. Probably the thing would have been better just as images, without any explanation.
- alex 11-05-2003 8:54 pm
As noted above I shot footage of the tank implosions. The next roll of film I put through the camera was used to capture the WTC collapse two months later. I have always been dissapointed that the events were not recorded on the same piece of film but figure that splicing them together would be cheating and ultimately uninteresting.
- steve 11-05-2003 10:22 pm