The city gets some help from Eyebeam

It looks like Mayor Bloomberg is endorsing current Eyebeam resident Andrea Polli’s proposal (a project she began four years ago) to create wind turbines for the spires of the Queensboro Bridge. Working with the NASA Goddard Climate Research Group, technical designer Markus Maurette and videographer Morgan Barnard, Polli produced a short video promoting the installation of working turbines as an art project on the bridge that would provide enough power to light the necklace lights, which were turned off by Bloomberg a few months after 9/11 in order to save money. Polli’s project was inspired by the darkening of the necklace lights and by the Northeast blackout of 2003.


Polli’s project has been presented widely througout New York City, nationally and internationally. Looks like the inspiration is mutual-during the 2003 blackout, Polli remembers listening to the mayor speak of the need for innovative solutions to the energy issue on the radio, and began work on the project the very next day.


For more information visit: http://www.andreapolli.com/queensbridge

Posted on August 29, 2008 at 04:10 PM   |   Previous Entry   |   Next Entry   |   Entry List   |   Email Entry   |    Digg

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