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Red, Yellow, and Blue Ropes Galore!

05/11/13 | New York City

When Rachel from Life Unsweetened asked earlier this week if any of her readers ever play tourist in their own city my answer emphatically, YES! I live in New York City and I love being a tourist, even for, as Thursday evening turned out, 20 minutes on my way to another event.  When I saw Naomi of the tremendously popular Love Taza visit the new art installation in Madison Square Park with her littles I knew I had to head over and see it for myself!

It is exactly one mile from my front door to the SE corner of Madison Square Park and as any New Yorker knows, you are welcomed to the quaint area by Shake Shake.  I reluctantly sped past the tasty eatery to see Madison Square Park Conservancy’s new installation for Spring and Summer 2013 by New York-based artist Orly Genger. The monumental installation is entitled Red, Yellow and Blue and features over 1.4 million feet of painted hand-knotted nautical rope. Take a look!

To give these massive structures perspective she used enough rope that he total length equates to nearly 20 times the length of Manhattan,  over 3,000 gallons of paint, and the installation weighs over 100,000 pounds!

The rope exhibit really was spectacular and if you have time to to go see Red, Yellow, and Blue in Madison Square Park I would definitely recommend it and it will be in NYC until it heads to Boston on  September 8th!

P.S.  I am really excited to announce that next week is going to be the second Past Adventures takeover featuring six of my favorite trips, from the map can you guess where they are?

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  1. Lian says

    May 14, 2013 at 3:18 am

    wow! amazing photos kelly! love the colorful ropes and the idea is super cool!

    have a great day!
    ♥
    http://herlifeinstyle.blogspot.com

  2. Alyssa says

    May 13, 2013 at 9:46 am

    I love playing tourist in NYC too, Kelly! I was actually in Madison Square Park on Friday for a quick Shake Shack stop before The Great Gatsby, and I saw the installation. I wasn’t expecting it to be so huge!

  3. Cake Couture says

    May 12, 2013 at 10:54 pm

    What great pictures! I love NYC! I definitely need to make a trip back there!
    xoxo

    http://www.cakeandcouture.com

  4. Sonia De Macedo says

    May 12, 2013 at 10:14 pm

    Living in NYC how could you not! I don’t think I’d ever sleep, just wandering around the streets and all hehehehe!

    SDMxx
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  5. Katie says

    May 12, 2013 at 9:24 pm

    that rope thing is so crazy!

  6. Rachel says

    May 12, 2013 at 6:19 pm

    Thanks for the shout-out! I feel like there is SO much to do in NYC that you can always be a tourist there no matter how long you’ve lived there!

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  8. Janna Renee says

    May 12, 2013 at 4:58 pm

    Wow! I’ve never heard of this. The time and effort it must take…

  9. Melissa Cabrini says

    May 12, 2013 at 12:07 pm

    GREAT PICTURES
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  10. Hannah Anderson says

    May 12, 2013 at 11:07 am

    Great post, and the pictures are gorgeous! We should follow each other!

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  11. Amy Shaughnessy says

    May 12, 2013 at 9:36 am

    Wow, this is so cool! I have to admit that I don’t play tourist in my own city. I feel like I have seen everything. I like going to bigger cities like Houston and seeing different things. Dallas and Houston are two of my favorite places to go so each time we go, we try something new.

    Amy

    Fashion and Beauty Finds

  12. Erin says

    May 11, 2013 at 8:38 pm

    This is crazy! I’m definitely going to have to go see this.

  13. Color-Block says

    May 11, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    wow great post..amazing place and pics..
    kisses

  14. Mahnoor Malik says

    May 11, 2013 at 2:12 pm

    Amazing post 🙂

    Mahnoorshaul

  15. Ira Kharchenko says

    May 11, 2013 at 1:40 pm

    I love the pics! So beautiful:)

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  16. Areeba says

    May 11, 2013 at 1:06 pm

    Beautiful photos. I am so lame about this travel matters!

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