Florence- Notte Bianca Dregs

[fumobici]

OK, I missed the notte bianca in Florence by a few days. That said there were some remnants left to puzzle over or admire.

Perhaps my favorite of these was a piece on la Ponte alla Carraia.



Trees were planted into trash containers and arrayed on the busy bridge to make a little magic forest.



I'll let the signage provide credit where due.









Here you can see the containers they were planted into.



An interesting addition was they took some of the containers, filled them with styrofoam peanuts and scattered them amongst the trees to make places to relax in the little forest.



People were quite happy to avail themselves.



As was I.



Go ahead, make fun of the shoes. You know you want to.

In the evening later LED lights came on and lit the trees from below.





The whole thing was perhaps actually best appreciated from the next bridge downriver.

[fumobici]

Next up in the piazza Santa Croce there were these odd "rolling houses".







Here's who to contact to get your own. Who doesn't need at least one?

[fumobici]

Then there was this oddly charming (I thought at any rate) installation in the courtyard of the Palazzo Strozzi. It was a sculpture made completely of rolls of transparent sticky tape attached to the pillars around the courtyard. Even though it was officially part of the notte bianca, it was still in progress.







Here you can see the construction process ongoing:



Seconds later I was sternly informed that taking video was strictly forbidden.

So I took some stills of the woman who seemed to be directing its construction working inside the piece adding reinforcements.











The last image was apparently too much for the gallery staff and I was told to put my camera away.

But too late, the damage as it were being done by then I left.

;D

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Looks like the same sort of displays as the Nuit Blanche in Paris (October 1st this year).

In Paris, though, they are ultra fast for removing and disassembling things the moment an event is finished. It's quite disappointed when you have just missed something, because you nevertheless rush there to see if there is anything left, and it is all gone. Sometime you can see the last truck driving away from the scene.

You were a lot luckier.

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Interesting photos, fumobici. Any idea what the purpose of the sticky tape structure would be? I can't believe the lady is sitting on top of the whole thing! I've got to have one of those rolling houses.

[bjd]

Hmmm, I don't like that sticky tape thing. It reminds me of a giant spider cocoon.

Are those five finger shoes as comfortable for running as they are marketed to be? I just read McDougall's Born to Run. I'm not sure the shoes did well against the Indians' huarache sandals.

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Jun 16, 2011 11:07:47 GMT deyana said:

Interesting photos, fumobici. Any idea what the purpose of the sticky tape structure would be?

What is the purpose of art? ;D Depends whom you ask. That'd make a good question for a French philosophy exam.

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Jun 16, 2011 11:27:59 GMT bjd said:

Are those five finger shoes as comfortable for running as they are marketed to be?

I find them exquisitely comfortable which is good because they are surely ugly. I doubt I'll run in them, I really only run when I play tennis.

[lola]

I'm just catching this now, mustard snob. I love the tape, the bosque, AND the shoes.