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Judging from photos I’ve seen on the web, Central Park in New York is looking stunning right now – and orange. Against the stark winter background, winding its way along the park’s paths, is a trail of orange ‘gates’ with orange pleated fabric hanging off each one. It’s a piece of art by Christo, unveiled on Saturday and scheduled to be dismantled in 16 days time.

From nytimes.com

“The giant $21 million art project “The Gates“, which had already filled the park’s 23 miles of pathways with thousands of saffron-colored portals, blossomed yesterday at 8:31 a.m., just as the artist Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, had planned.

Each and every one of the 7,500 gates had the same cocoon of fabric, and after Mr. Bloomberg had unfurled four more, workers (hired and paid by the artists) fanned out through the park to complete the job.

By midmorning, the park’s circulatory system had taken on the bright color of veins twisting and twirling against the gray-and-brown backdrop of midwinter. The pleated nylon fabric pulsed and swayed at the whim of a 12-mile-an-hour wind – not strong enough to make it snap like a spinnaker on an America’s Cup challenger. The color was almost as fiery and fierce as the sun that had risen a couple of hours earlier.“

I must say I’m completely mesmerised by the whole thing. The photos and the concept. I have a photo hanging on my wall already and my eyes keep straying to it. I got goose bumps when I first saw the slide-show of photos on nytimes.com and I’m now completely distracted …

(By the way, 1.089 million yards is 995 781.6 metres).

… and my favourite …

Getting back into the swing of reporting on orange stuff … thought it was about time I did an inventory of orange things on my desk:

OK, from left to right (I won’t repeat the word ‘orange’ every time, just know all the following objects *are* orange, right down to the very last paper clip) … lunchbox, manilla folders, A4 notebook that goes everywhere with me, plastic document cover for current work, finger puppet sitting on lever of copy holder, cover sheets on documents I circulate, plastic carrot on monitor, cardboard cat on monitor, tiny shiny star on bottom of monitor, memo cube, 6 blocks of little post-it flags, several blocks of post-it notes, container of paper clips, ruler, stapler, hole punch, tin of designer pencils, pencil sharpener, clock, calculator, orange cup filled entirely with orange 21 pens (all other colours relegated to different cup), cocktail umbrella, piece of ribbon tied into a bow, poncy pen on wire stand, another piece of ribbon, plastic document wallets in filing area, another piece of ribbon tied around a pot plant, name tag on in-tray, plastic flower on in-tray, scissors, whiteboard markers, umbrella.

Orange *is* legally binding so it’s OK for me to use orange pen when signing legal documents. The blue/black requirements is more to do with faxing and copying.

Not that many orange cars on the road are there.

I am now so synonymous with orange that today when I was wearing none (that was visible) everyone commented on it – and someone I know didn’t even recognise me until I was right up in their face! I want to know when Microsoft will put orange on their Outlook colour palette so I can write orange emails.