Clocktower Building to feature art display. (Transcripts).Real estate developer and arts patron David Walentas, president of Two Trees Management, owners of over three million SF of office, retail, residential and gallery space in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn, has once again demonstrated his commitment to supporting the burgeoning arts community along the Brooklyn waterfront by donating top floor space in the historic Clocktower Building for a unique artistic display. Artist Michael Counts and his company GAle GAtes et al. recently presented a stunning view of larger-than-life New Yorkers who will appear to be ten stories tall. Eight windows and four 14-foot high. clock faces on the 16th floor in the waterfront tower of 1 Main Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn, were transformed into vast video. projection screens from which the faces of hundreds of New Yorkers-children, mothers, fire fighters, relief workers, residents and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of personalities gazed out onto New York in all directions, surveying the landscape and watching over the city at this unique time of rebirth re·birth n. 1. A second or new birth; reincarnation. 2. A renaissance; a revival: a rebirth of classicism in architecture. and renewal. "Michael Counts and GAle GAtes et al. have entertained and challenged theatergoers, art lovers, music buffs The name Buffs can mean:
The historic Clocktower Building was originally the center of the Gair Industrial Complex and continues to define the skyline of DUMB 0 and the Brooklyn waterfront. Due to its prominent location in one of the busiest and most spectacular areas of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , the clock tower of 1 Main St. is visible to millions of people daily - pedestrians, subway riders, vehicle traffic on the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan (at Canal Street) with Brooklyn (at Flatbush Avenue Extension). , the BQE BQE Brooklyn-Queens Expressway , and the FDR Drive, workers in Wall Street skyscrapers, residents along the East River and in DUMBO, and beyond. Entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: "Looking Forward," the display was a visual and physical manifestation of New York's resilience, exposing New York's truest strength in its people. The display culminated on May 3 by providing an outlet for the voices of hundreds of New Yorkers through a simulcast with radio station WFMU in which listeners had a unique opportunity to finally hear what the people in the clock tower were saying. The broadcast was set to an original score by long-time GAle GAtes collaborator Joseph Diebes, synchronized syn·chro·nize v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es v.intr. 1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous. 2. To operate in unison. v.tr. 1. with the Clocktower images. More than 20,000 people were invited and brought their radios to the bridges and surrounding areas to view the finale. |
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