Last Updated: October 7, 2008

Culminant

Being at the highest point.

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the second highest natural point in brooklyn

high nature looks on high sky scrapers. inspired by north american scum.

 
 

Jerry-built: No longer culminant

Eddie Boros’ Tower of ToysEddie Boros’ Tower of Toys grew and stood for a few decades on 6th and B. It was taken down in May 2008, a year after its creator’s passing. At my first encounter with the tower, the garden was closed. It was a cloudy day. It drizzled. The tower stopped me in my tracks. I lingered to take it in, looking through the bars of the fence. As a recent art school graduate, the Tower of Toys mesmerized me. It both honored and defied design theory. The structure was showing honesty in how it was built, starting on a broad base, tapering towards the welkin of this skyscraper city. It showed clarity in how it was created. If there is a comparison worth making with an architect-built structure it might be San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid, while in the realm of outsider architecture the structure has evoked Simon Rodia’s Watts towers for many. Eddie Boros defied what I learned in design theory in his construction and connection details. Although his tower looked and stood like a tall structure, its details did neither suggest that it should, nor assure its stability or longevity, where Rodia’s creation does. But Boros wasn’t a designer or architect in that schoolish way. He built from passion, with intuition, using that rough-n-tumble New York grit as the tower’s backbone and his own longevity as mortar. How cool is that

A photo album:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jschumacher/sets/72157605010716901/show/with/2485379258/

 

An elegy: http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/47237/

 

Taking it down:

 

Reminiscing:

 
 

Culminant: Heather in Brooklyn

Heather Evans. Mother of one of my closest friends is a true inspiration to me. She is a beautiful, healthy, strong, single mother of four girls, working hard as an investment banker for one of the world’s top firms.  In many ways, she is what I aspire to be like. I would like to be an investment banker for a firm like Goldman Sachs, happy, completely control of my life and have 4 lovely children.  As I sat down for dinner with the Evans family in Brooklyn, NY, it just amazed me how nice, relaxed, and put together this woman was. And it’s no joke raising four children on your own. Thank you Ms. Evans for the pleasure of meeting and dining in your presence and further inspiring me to pursue my future goals. You are at the highest point.

 
 

Amazing Culminant

 
 

Culminant: Park Slope, Brooklyn