John CorcoranW 121st St between Amsterdam Ave and BroadwayHeart Four · Location 407 · Drawn July 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Download photograph 10Download photograph 11Download photograph 12Video podcast0:00West of Amsterdam on West 121st Street, you'll see an outcropping from the building onto the sidewalk.0:08Above the center of this gated entrance are some beat-up chiseled letters that read The Emerson.0:14If you were to enter in through this pink gated front and look to the right,0:19you would see a wall next to a window with bars on it.0:22Our drawing was made on this dirty gray wall between the window and the main entrance.0:30This is John J. Corcoran III.0:33He was drawn in July of 2004.0:36His drawing is counting one person.0:41If we add an eyelash to a tape art drawing that's on a building,0:45people will point out the eyelash and say, like, wow, that's incredible.0:49And meanwhile, you've just drawn, like, a full-size silhouette0:51on a building in a handful of minutes,0:54and it's the eyelash that really gets them.0:56And life's in those details.0:57And the same thing happened with the O Project, and in specific the Google Earth, that now1:02that people really are flying around Manhattan looking at CAD buildings and seeing the drawings1:08we've done with the samples of the textures that we've captured inside the bounds of tape,1:12it really pushes people's buttons.1:16And ours!1:21Mr. Corcoran, known to everyone as Jay, was in the Merchant Marine, a first engineer on huge cargo ships.1:29His schedule had him sailing all over the Far East for tours of 84 days.1:34He was in perpetual motion, golfing, doing yard work, going on field trips with his children, Megan and Jake, and working on his cabin.← Location 406Heart Four · Location 407Location 408 →
