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Gel speaker update: Leni Schwendinger
Jul 8, 2006
Gel :'06: speaker Leni Schwendinger has lit the Coney Island Parachute Jump, an enormous tower that was used in a past era (before runaway liability payouts) as an amusement park ride. No company would insure a parachute jump today, but it can still be used as a lighted beacon to symbolize the history, and future, of Coney Island.
Leni used some of the same processes that she used on Glasgow's Kingston Bridge (which she talked about at Gel). The Coney Island project, she writes, "was an opportunity to meld 21st century lighting with a 20th century industrial structure. The Parachute Jump is revived as a signature icon for Coney Island's evening and nighttime hours."
Congrats to Leni. Here's her site: lightprojectsltd.com
And here's the New York Times story on the lighting of the Parachute Jump.
