Joining the lunchtime crowd in front of the 1600 Smith St. tower today: the towering inflatable rabbits of Australian artist Amanda Parer. Brookfield Properties, which owns the downtown office tower complex where the rabbits are loitering, is sponsoring the leporine art installation’s 4-stop North American tour of other Brookfield commercial properties. The bunnies spent some time in New York City before getting transplanted downtown for a week; they’ll be hopping off to LA and then Denver after the tour’s Houston leg wraps up this Saturday the 14th.
The installation is called Intrude, an allusion to the rabbit’s time-honored place in modern Australian lore as an ecological disaster. Here are a few more daytime angles on the critters, which are also getting lit during their nights downtown:
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Grammar Nazis…please chime in…
To me, “getting lit” = drinking heavily, while “getting lighted” = being illuminated.
@SuperDave: Grammar Nazi here! Your question is a good one and I’d like to try my hand at answering it.
“Getting lit”: spot on; to me, it is slang for becoming intoxicated.
“Getting lighted”: I actually view this as a rather grammatically clumsy phrase, though not grammatically incorrect. Let me copy and paste the referenced sentence below:
“Here are a few more daytime angles on the critters, which are also getting lit during their nights downtown”
If I read this sentence as is, I would assume it meant that the object was being illuminated by an external source, like a spotlight. However, that changed when I clicked the link embedded in the original article within the term “getting lit” and found this article from glasstire.com entitled “Gigantic Bunnies Hop Across U.S. to Houston!”
That article described the art installation as such: “Intrude will make for some fun playtime for the kids, bunches of inevitable selfies, and will light up internally at night”.
In my opinion, Glasstire.com’s article describes the lighting better. We could also say “[…] and will be internally illuminated at night” or “[…] and will be lit up using internal lights at night”.
Invasive species, indeed.