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Film Richard Linklater's follow-up to 'Waking Life' and 'Tape' follows a Manhatten tour guide to the site of the World Trade Centre to consider one of the more unusual proposals:

"In the 20-minute film, "Live From Shiva's Dancefloor," ... Timothy "Speed" Levitch posits that the site should be turned into a park full of free-roaming American bison, popularly known as buffalo. "Sixteen acres of blazing green grass, a place for togetherness, healing out loud, and spontaneous culture," says Levitch. "And in the middle of the park, the memorial should not be an inanimate slab of stone, but should have a heartbeat." Thus, the buffalo."

Quite how strong support is for this isn't clear although of all the ideas put forward so far, it does seem to make a certain sense, and have some poinancy. But as the article asks, wouldn't it be a tragedy to maroon these majestic beasts in the centre of an urban sprawl? [via Gawker]