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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:34:36 -0500
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
To: mit-talk@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20051214003706.GD9545@multics.mit.edu>
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
Some updates.
I finally got ahold of Gordon King, the Facilities project manager
for the project (for some reason he's not in MITDIR, but he is
listed at http://web.mit.edu/facilities/about/tel.html).
He's not involved in the decision-making and policy aspects, but he
was able to clarify some points:
1. Demolition of the mural has not yet been scheduled. It will not
happen until "at least after Christmas," however.
2. Preserving the existing mural as-is is essentially non-feasable (as
Sean had suggested). King described the wall to me as a cement block
wall.
3. The digital photographs taken by the photographer Facilities hired
are expected to be of sufficiently high-resolution that he thinks they
would be able to produce a 1:1 scale reproduction. (This ignores the
question of where such a thing would go, of course)
4. The removal of the mural will not produce a scene like at the end
of {Cradle Will Rock} with guys with sledgehammers knocking down the
mural [my characterization, not his.] They will build a sheetrock wall
extending about a foot into the Infinite, and then demolish the wall
from the inside.
--jhawk
+1 617 797 0250
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