The Somerville Gates

[frederic.livejournal.com]

You've probably heard about Christo's "Gates" in NYC's Central Park. Here's the local artist Hargo's "Somerville Gates"... in his apartment:



http://www.not-rocket-science.com/about_gates.htm

Comments

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

he has a really nice apartment.

bastard.

[frederic.livejournal.com]

Indeed, and huge! 2,400 square feet?

Look on the bright side, Village St. is right next to the train tracks and if you lived there, you'd have an early A.M. wakeup call every day!

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

except my 1,000 sq foot apartment is right by the train tracks too :(

Though my bedroom is opposite and noise-shielded, so I guess it's ok. It's funny how after a year my cats still freak out when a train goes by.

[georgy.livejournal.com]

It's neat and all, but can you explain to me why this is on Boston.com this afternoon?

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

I've heard whispers that there's some sort of rivalry between Boston and NY.

Though, in reality it's a Boston inferiority complex--maybe that's Hargo's message!

[frederic.livejournal.com]

Don't know. That's where my coworker saw it and pointed it out to me. Probably as an amusing parody of all of the attention the news has been giving the other gates. Either that, or there needed to be something uplifting in the news lately.

[being-homeless.livejournal.com]

was he really on CNN or was he joking?

[frederic.livejournal.com]

There was nothing on the cnn.com (using a search for "somerville") which says nothing of the tv version (I don't have cable so who knows). I wonder how 204 CNN appearances for the other gates was calculated...

[being-homeless.livejournal.com]

I looked too and saw nothing so i figure it was a joke. but he did land on boston.com so thats cool. :)

[bluepapercup]

Heh. That's kinda great.

I want that cat.

[frederic.livejournal.com]

Quite well behaved... My cats would so be knocking over the gates and hockey pucking them underneath the stove!

[being-homeless.livejournal.com]

thats way cooler than the ones in NY.

[julyana.livejournal.com]

ah yes, it've seen this. pretty darn silly.
i have no desire to see the real thing to tell you the truth. :)

[ihavemeaning.livejournal.com]

I'd like to register this guy as my hero.