I am really thrilled by the great (and multi-medic!) coverage of the project in the NY Times. The photos and the story really give, in my opinion, the intent and spirit of the project. I have also gotten a lot of great emails – I promise to get back to everyone after the end of the weekend.
I picked up my beautiful beacons from the fabricator today. They are so elegant looking and I really look forward to installing them. Unfortunately, some the permitting sort of fell in between some administrative cracks and I don’t have a permit for the weekend. I decided that it would be best to wait on the Canarsie Beach Park installation and re-schedule it when I get a chance to come out to do a presentation with Chris in the area.
So instead I spent the day drawing again. I finished up Canarsie, and moved into Mill Basin. I was being chased by a thunder storm, which finally opened up on us, so I will return tomorrow to finish the rest of Mill Basin. I had a really great day and got to talk to a lot of kids today. That was really fun. One young boy listened intently to Ed talk about climate change and actions to take on and then he said, “I’m on it!” We had a group of kids from like 5-9 following us around for a little while, and one girl was telling me about the butterflies that she saw at the museum. I don’t know if they fully grasped what we were talking about, but maybe the next time they hear something about climate change (in school or other) they will remember seeing the line and it will really click.
I have more stories to share, and will post those tomorrow (and hopefully get some of Ed’s great pictures!) And by the way, I fixed the rss and atom links for this blog – sorry about that….