In one of the courtyards of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, is a swimming pool framed by a limestone deck. When seen from the deck, the pool appears to be filled with deep, shimmering water. In fact, however, a layer of water only some 10 centimeters deep is suspended over transparent glass. Below the glass is an empty space with aquamarine walls that viewers can enter.
The Swimming Pool was designed by Buenos Aires artist Leandro Erlich in 2004.
How, exactly, did they "suspend" the water over transparent glass??
ReplyDeleteThe glass is just wavy.....
ReplyDeleteStupid question, no offense. They have glass covering the top. They pour water on the glass. The end.
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome, I also found this great experiment video about a diet coke and mentos explosion in a microwave on youtube that was really entertaining. It is pretty near death as far as diet coke and mentos goes. It is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVPZSK77yTw. Take a peek, its worth it.
ReplyDeletethen the water isn't suspended over the glass, it's on the glass itself
ReplyDeleteAwesome!!!!
ReplyDelete@May 20, 2010 10:28 PM
ReplyDelete...do you have some sort of mental handicap?
where do they get air?
ReplyDeleteHow many have been hurt diving in to save someone?
ReplyDeleteLMAO
DeleteWoah, that's pretty trippy.
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its photoshopped i can tell by the pixelz
ReplyDeleteYou're retarded i can tell by th kommente.
ReplyDeleteTool, it's real, nothing has been photoshoppe, it's not fake. Douche.
epic lulz in tehse comments
ReplyDeleteThe water is suspended on special glass that has been cleaned with water repellent glass cleaner like on those shopping channeles.
ReplyDeleteThere are some deviant pixels in the images for sure. I am still determining via computer forensic evaluation whether or not it is shopped but my gut instinct is that photo three is shopped because of the pixels.
why do you fun size brained dorks think everything is fake? it's a real invention even tho its stupid.... it's like a stove in which you can't cook or a car you can't drive.
ReplyDeletephoto 3 is a different pool entirely...
ReplyDeleteI love it when people get mad over the "photoshop" comments. It's full of lulz.
ReplyDeleteYou know how I know it's been shopped? The pictures were originally higher res.
ReplyDeleteFor those unaware of what a joke is:
ReplyDeletehttp://mrw.blox.pl/resource/500pxShopped.jpg
It's an old Internet meme (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme)
That is so cool. :)
ReplyDeletewow very cool! looks awesome
ReplyDeleteGreat job and good ideas some one use them at home and hotels....
ReplyDeleteWhat is the point of a fake swimming pool??? Why not just have a real one?
ReplyDeletetotally want a house with a room like that and a rooftop patio. maybe one day.., oh and people are STILL doing the photo shop thing? *sigh* guess you'll keep doing it as long as other morons keep falling for it. Rather sad really.....
ReplyDeletehow do you get out...? and photo 3 is a completely different pool.
ReplyDeleteThis was so cool to see!
ReplyDeleteThis is cool man :)
ReplyDeleteIts kinda cool but obviously fake
ReplyDeleteNot Fake...It´s architecture...
ReplyDeletehttp://designyoutrust.com/2009/07/31/21st-century-museum-of-contemporary-art-kanazawa/
just to end this "shopped/ not shopped" war
ReplyDeletehere's the info for both picture 3, and all the other pictures
for picture 3:
this is the fake pool located at:
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.
for all the other pictures:
this is the fake pool located at:
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan here's some links for you dummy's!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT7gjhHq9d0
http://thecoolgadgets.com/fake-swimming-pool-leandro-erlich/
this links will also answer you other questions about this sh!t
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PEACE OUT!
I thought that they were underwater until I read the article. I wondered why they did not look soggy.
ReplyDeletesome of you guys are so stupid. it's a piece of glass, with water on top. then there is another way to get into it underneath. no photoshop, this is real, i've seen it on the news. god.
ReplyDeleteyou can see the ledge were the glass slips in on the top and the pixles can be caused by many things, like shrinking a high res large photo to fit the web site, or just a crappy effing camera. did you ever think this was taked By a camera phone, i think it is real.
ReplyDeleteVery clever. thanks for posting this.
ReplyDeleteswimming swimming, in my swimming pool, when days are hot, when days are cold, in my swimming pool! side stroke, breast stroke fancy diving too, oh don't you wish you never had anything else to do!
ReplyDelete*bows*
i like how some of you think the people who say its shopped are actually being serious. They're just trolling you. Haha..stupid people
ReplyDeletehow doyou get into it??
ReplyDeleteI love how many people are commenting about how its pointless, and how they would rather have a real pool. I guess you folks don't understand the concept of art. Go out and get some culture, you single celled fucking organisms.
ReplyDeleteSweet. I was inspired to write about this myself.
ReplyDeleteIn general Leandro Erlich (the artist that made "The Swimming Pool") likes to mess around with perspective, and our expectations of reality.
Here's a few more nice photos: The Swimming Pool
To all those people who say it isnt real, it is. I have been there, and it is AWESOME!!!
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