Neatorama » water tower http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:26:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Moving Eyeball on a Water Tower http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/15/moving-eyeball-on-a-water-tower/ http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/15/moving-eyeball-on-a-water-tower/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:44:51 +0000 John Farrier http://www.neatorama.com/?p=54470

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Marcos Zotes projected an eyeball on the bottom of a water tower in Brooklyn. It’s watching you ominously, like a long-legged alien striding over a conquered Earth.

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Photo: James Young

For the last ten months, James Young has assembled a collection of photographs of water towers in Ireland. BLDGBLOG has more:

Many of the structures are militaristic and even explicitly fortress-like. They are prisons for water. Others could be mistaken for ornamental menhirs, functionless and inexplicable totems standing patiently in the fog and rain.

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Equipped with a hydraulic crane and a cage, hippo hunter Chris Hobkirk and his team from the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Association set to work. In a four-hour operation, they drained the tank and used poles to gently nudge the hippo into the 3m-long (10ft) steel cage before winching it to safety.

Mr Hobkirk – who has rescued more than 180 stranded hippos in the past six years – said it was a tricky procedure but he was glad with the outcome.

‘Maybe we got lucky with this one. In the past, I have removed hippos from small dams. In those cases, the water levels have always been much lower so this was different.’

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