{"id":1812,"date":"2008-10-29T14:18:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T21:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2015-12-20T09:03:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T14:03:36","slug":"main-street-is-melting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/main-street-is-melting\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Street is Melting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Currently sitting in Foley Square<\/a> in Lower Manhattan, have been here since 6am assisting Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese – two Brooklyn-based artists – to realize their public installation, Main Street Meltdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even though the available WiFi is sweet<\/em> I don’t have much time to write. So I’ll just post some quick images and captions so I can get back to taking more images. I’ll write up a more comprehensive post laters.<\/p>\n

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around 7am, the tables are setup which will become the plinth for the 1600 lbs. of ice sculpture that will get loaded on top.<\/p>\n

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Marshall Reese, planning the next move.<\/p>\n

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Dressing the table.<\/p>\n

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preparing the ice trays<\/p>\n

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master ice sculptor Okamoto<\/a> from Long Island City, preparing the base.<\/p>\n

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ECONOMY ice letters laid out<\/p>\n

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the E goes up<\/p>\n

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ECONOMY gets pissed on, rain ensues.<\/p>\n

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ice drip<\/p>\n

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interviewing people<\/p>\n

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while I was away at lunch, the EConomy collapsed!<\/p>\n

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ice detailed<\/p>\n

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Currently sitting in Foley Square in Lower Manhattan, have been here since 6am assisting Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese – two Brooklyn-based artists – to realize their public installation, Main Street Meltdown. Even though the available WiFi is sweet I don’t have much time to write. So I’ll just post some quick images and captions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[6,117],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","tag-artist","tag-sculpture"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/economy-500.jpg?fit=500%2C273&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-te","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16110,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/16110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}