Slog - Comments on Airport Art http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art I'm at Eugene's airport, which is tiny and charming, as airports go. But the "art" in Eugene's airport is almost as annoying/upsetting as those piles of glass bones are at Sea-Tac. (Yeah, that's what I like to think about on my way to the plane, Sea-Tac--bleached bones, violent death, rot, decay.) The long hall that leads to the A Gates here is decorated with... images of people flying! But not in airplanes. They're just, you know, soaring through the air... Here's a close-up... Flying. People flying. But not in planes. Flying like Superman! That's cute. But to my eyes--to the... Copyright 2008 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:55:50 -0800 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:58:30 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by seattle98104 Um, have you ever seen the suicidal art on the outside of the parking garage on 5th across from the KC jail?

now that is some WTF? art right there.

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671775 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671775 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:16:17 -0800 Comment by elm My favorite tiny airport is at Bend, Oregon. So lodgy!

]]> elm http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671776 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671776 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:19:08 -0800 Comment by David E. Ha ha...I remember when those pictures were being taken. I went to the photographer's studio and also posed (I think that there was an ad in the newspaper), but, from what I've seen, I didn't make the final cut.

]]> David E. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671779 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671779 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:22:13 -0800 Comment by JunieGirl Ugh! I hate flying! I would be totally freaked out if I saw bones or falling people depicted at the airport. It's bad enough having to watch the pilots get on the plane--"I'm putting my life in THAT guy's hands?"

]]> JunieGirl http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671786 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671786 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:39 -0800 Comment by Justin L The neon lit freak out tunnel between United concourse B and C at O'Hare never fails to bring me back to my high school acid laced days.

]]> Justin L http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671787 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671787 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:37:43 -0800 Comment by matthew fisher wilder My favorite airport art ever are the little glass-window casinos in the gate areas of Las Vegas Airport.

These aren't meant to be art, I don't think. But I love the way they articulate the zoo-like quality of casinos into these mini-aquariums of chain-smokers needing a slot machine fix.

That said, Vegas airport does surprisingly decent art (meaning the decorations meant to be art) compared to the casinos in the city themselves.

]]> matthew fisher wilder http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671790 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671790 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:42:10 -0800 Comment by Gabriel Glasgow's Prestwick Airport (not actually even near Glasgow) has the motto "Pure Dead Brilliant," which is displayed in huge letters outside the terminal. Of course, it's the word "dead" that catches your eye as you walk in.

]]> Gabriel http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671796 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671796 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:48:39 -0800 Comment by Prospero Those flying people have always freaked me out in Eugene. Don't linger long in that town!

]]> Prospero http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671797 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671797 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:50:16 -0800 Comment by Ecce Homo The art at DIA has extremely bizarre esoteric conotations to it. Lots of overt masonic imagery, with a smattering of ethereal nazi references. The new world order is pround of the overt evil messages being spoon fed the prolls on their way to the sunny simulacra of Disneyworld. Just letting us know whose in charge.

Art is power...

]]> Ecce Homo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671807 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671807 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:07:21 -0800 Comment by Giffy Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.... thud

]]> Giffy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671823 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671823 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:24:38 -0800 Comment by Carollani @ 1: Will you take and post a photo of the art you're talking about? I'd love to see it.

]]> Carollani http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671832 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671832 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:33:03 -0800 Comment by COMTE I think I'd be a lot more freaked out by these if the images were arranged on a vertically oriented, rather than a horizontally oriented surface - plus I'm guessing (@4 could probably confirm this) they were done pre 9/11?

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671839 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671839 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:43:38 -0800 Comment by Mark Mitchell What about the creepy flying uteruses (uteri?) at Sea-Tac? The white ones fly above, and the black ones sit nearby, discarded on some steps. It ruins my morning every time I fly Delta.

]]> Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671844 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671844 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:54:30 -0800 Comment by SeMe Yeah thats a cool piece 98104. Very interesting sequence of somebody jumping, falling and the final SPLAT!

Its very northwest, I like it. They should do a similar one at the Aurora bridge, though I think the phones on the bridge are somewhat of an art piece.

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671848 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671848 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:57:24 -0800 Comment by come again
Gee, Dan - sorry that upset you. Kind of reminded me of how I felt after starting the day reading about a 6 month old baby dying of an overdose.

]]> come again http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671859 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671859 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:22:38 -0800 Comment by seattle98104 @11 I'll try and snap a photo by tomorrow. just tested my google and flickr fu and came up empty handed. It's a fairly new installation as the garage was recently remodeled.

And if anyone wants to beat me to it, go for it.

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671861 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671861 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:24:31 -0800 Comment by seattle98104 btw it's not mentioned on the seattle gov's art walk maps http://www.seattle.gov/Arts/publications/publicart/walkingtours/downloads/halls.pdf

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671867 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671867 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:29:16 -0800 Comment by Mark Mitchell And as far as flying with helpful pharmaceuticals goes, my favorite is two Vicodin with a 5mg kicker of Valium. Last month I sat for two hours on the runway at JFK next to a Mormon woman and her infant son, with two infants in the seats behind me, followed by the 6 hour flight to Seattle, and I never lost my cool.

]]> Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671872 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671872 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:35:42 -0800 Comment by Fnarf The Sea-Tac art of the freakishly hideous magician always puts me in a bad mood for flying. Or living, for that matter.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671873 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671873 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:37:10 -0800 Comment by David E. It was back in the early '90s when they were taken (if not the late '80s).

]]> David E. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671886 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671886 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:44:32 -0800 Comment by Glenn Fleishman Eugene boy here (living in Seattle since early 1990s). The art wasn't well appreciated when hung back when I was regularly traveling through that airport.

But, Dan, isn't this a Rorschach test? I see people flying at ease; you see them falling through the air.

]]> Glenn Fleishman http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671915 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671915 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:04:19 -0800 Comment by Joe I love flying (though I prefer to do it myself). However:

The morning of September 11, 2001, I was on a United Airlines flight bound for Seattle out of San Francisco (having been delayed flying out of JFK the night before, and spending the night on a bench at SFO). When the FAA stopped the system, we diverted to Eugene. Emerging from the plane, we joined the small crowds in the concourse watching the live coverage of the towers collapsing... and before that, the footage of ordinary people dressed in business clothes plummeting to their deaths.

If that art was hanging on the airport walls back then, I didn't notice it -- and for that I'm grateful. I certainly wouldn't have appreciated it.

]]> Joe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671954 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c671954 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:03:24 -0800 Comment by Chase retarded. straight guy idea.

]]> Chase http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c672346 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c672346 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:26:36 -0800 Comment by not afraid Hypnotheraphy works dude, trust me. As a former Catholic and person afraid of many thing including flying I have to say it's worth a try. I was popping zanex and stuff and still freakingout, now it's ok. Not fun but ok. Anyway I am sure I sound like a crazy new agey person but hey try it.

]]> not afraid http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c672369 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c672369 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:54:03 -0800 Comment by TM I have very fond memories of the flying people at the Eugene airport. Probably because when I was a child living in Eugene, getting to fly on an airplane was an adventure. Besides, I recognize a few of the people.

]]> TM http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c672511 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c672511 At Large Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:48:40 -0800 Comment by lawrence clark Seeing that wall close-up, I have to agree with you that those images are really creepy. (and totally out of place for an airport). Oh well, safe flying, Dan.

]]> lawrence clark http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c672566 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c672566 At Large Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:35:22 -0800 Comment by eugenite I always figured those were the Eugenites being Raptured.

]]> eugenite http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c673700 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/airport_art#c673700 At Large Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:58:30 -0800