1/9/2024 0 Comments Kandinsky chaos control![]() Walking along the High Line, I’m interested in the lookouts that line the path and face the river. Originally it was named for this phenomenon: the Magic Cube. ![]() Architecture professor Erno Rubik, who invented the cube to teach 3D movement, created an object that didn’t disassemble when it twisted and turned. ![]() So coming from California-a place well known for its water (and more recently its lack of it)-when I saw what I didn’t know until later was the Hudson, instinct reeled me in.Īnother thing I didn’t know until later is that about three summers ago, a giant Rubik’s Cube sailed down this Hudson River for its 40th anniversary and its creator’s 70th birthday. In my solo ambling, I forgot New York had rivers, or honestly, water. In new places, I’m almost always geographically stupid, and here is no exception. I walked from Greenwich Village through I think the Meatpacking District then down a side street. I didn’t know until eavesdropping on a tour that this place is called the High Line, and I found it by following the water. I’m short a dad double-fisting a hot dog and a Big Bus brochure-which is my actual dad right now in our Times Square hotel. I stand at the railing, pretending to look native, despite my backpack, and not clueless, despite the Google map I’ve got queued up on the phone in my pocket. A loud someone takes a photo to my right and the flash lingers, icy and white, when they walk away. People are up here with me-the 22-year-old west coast naïf-but I’m the only one around watching the black sky and blacker water. The evening skyline in late August looks cold from the High Line, but it’s 75 degrees with humidity.
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