Look Out For a Zebra in Decatur on Friday Night
Decatur Metro | September 22, 2010
From the Decatur Arts Alliance…
Images of a running zebra will flash across the Decatur streetscape this Friday evening, September 24. After making its journey through Decatur, the zebra image will be projected on the front of the Decatur Court building at 315 W. Ponce de Leon Ave. for 30-45 minutes on Friday night.
The artistic installment, Lima Lives!, honors and celebrates the life and spirit of Lima, the zebra that escaped from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus last winter and made a mad dash through downtown Atlanta. For nearly one hour, this courageous animal managed to break free of his circus routine and run wild in the streets of Atlanta. Riffing on the excitement of multiple sightings of him that day, Lima Lives! will roam Atlanta at night.
The project premieres in Decatur and features nightly projections around Atlanta culminating October 1 in Castleberry. Lima Lives! is presented by Flux Projects, a non-profit arts organization that commissions and presents temporary public art projects for large audiences beyond the walls of traditional arts venues.
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Lima was euthanized due to injuries resulting from his jaunt through downtown. Nice work, Ringling Bros. One would think humankind would have moved past the need to make wild animals “perform” for our amusement.
Don’t get me started on bullfighting. That would ruin my whole day.
Any details on time Friday evening or where in the sky this will be? Where do people think will be the best viewing spots. I’m thinking someplace high and open is in order. Cemetary? I think this will be a big family hit.
This kind of news that I’m unlikely to find anywhere else is why I follow Decatur Metro religiously.
Some additional information is at http://www.fluxprojects.org/limalives/index.html. Contact info is at http://www.fluxprojects.org/about.html.
From link in Calendar at http://www.decaturartsalliance.org/:
When Fri Sep 24 8pm – 10pm Eastern Time
Where Throughout the streetscape of Decatur and Decatur Court Bldg at 315 W. Ponce de Leon Avenue (map)
Is it Lima as in Peru or Lima as in bean?
If you would like to help a real live zebra (and other animals), please consider a donation to Noah’s Ark. This is a wonderful rescue group for both unwanted exotic animals and foster children.
Noah’s Ark 712 LG Griffin Road, Locust Grove, GA 30248 770-957-0888 http://www.noahs-ark.org
To bring it back to Decatur, Evidence the zebra was the victim of a pedestrian hit and run…
Oh I’ve been donating to Noah’s Ark ever since they took in Evidence. He is doing great now after the operations.
The story of Lima reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut story I read long ago. Deer in the Works (1955)
This is kind of awesome
i think so, too. Still trying to figure out where best to hang out to see Lima.
Me too. Please post ideas folks. I think we need open skies and height–ASC obseratory area? But maybe I don’t understand the concept. Maybe it’s so big that it’s like cloud cover?
It reads (to me) like they’re using the Court building as the display screen.
What Deanne said. Plus I didn’t read “…will flash across the Decatur streetscape this Friday evening” as a bat signal, but just projecting it from a truck onto buildings or the street as they drove through town.
I think it’ll be projected onto buildings—like the tiger video on the Arts Alliance link. Maybe from a moving truck, driving along Ponce? I’m guessing that since it will go on for 2 hours, it’ll be hard to miss. DAA said they would have more specific info today.
Ok, now I get it. The projection is on the buidings, not the sky. That was clear in the text but I was fooled by the picture which I thought indicated something more like a laser show. I’m not sure a big projection onto the sky even makes sense. But I figured if techies can figure out how to get the Internet onto a little phone, they could project movies onto the sky.
Please post updates on where the projection is. I have a family that followed the zebra story avidly.