Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Tribute to Woody Allen planned in Morse Code. But why ?

A new section of Riverside Park South will be adorned by a tribute to Manhattan through the words of director and actor Woody Allen.

The buildings, planned to be built about a year from now, are scheduled to have overhangs of aluminum sheeting to provide shade. Words will be written on these aluminum walls, but not in the way one might think. The words will be spelled out in Morse code.

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I have more countries confirmed on CW than SSB, but this is... interesting.

The text chosen is a quote from the opening scene of Woody Allen movie “Manhattan.” In the 1979 movie, Allen says: "He adored New York City, he idolized it all out of proportion. Uh no, make that, he romanticized it all out of proportion. Much better." Those are the lines that were translated manually into Morse code and will later be cut into the walls with a laser.

Will the playground have see saws that look like Morse keys ?


The dot and dash mesh patterns on the sheeting looked like Morse code, and so Coombe and his colleagues decided to have some fun. But Woody Allen wasn't the first writer Coombe and his colleagues considered.

At first they wanted to find a work that referenced New York's waterfront, because Riverside Park South overlooks the Hudson River, Coombe said. They sifted through Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," which opens in Manhattan, but couldn't find anything they liked.

That clears it up. it's a random exhibit for a randomly chosen author.

'K.

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