I don't know if any of you guys are familiar with the slightly baffling love affair that Portlanders have with the absolutely hideous PDX airport carpet, or the outcry and grief that has ensued over the fact that it was recently replaced, but I just found out that there is an art gallery exhibit honoring and eulogizing the iconic carpet of PDX. http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/07/pdx_carpet_exhibit.html
(http://www.madeinoregon.com/images/Z/pdx-carpet-ceramic-coast-24803-1z.jpg)
I can't say that I completely understand it, but there you go.
I think it has to do with many airports looking very similar so we get attached to the parts that make it unique.
The carpet is one of the first indications that you've arrived in Portland when you get off the plane, so for Portlanders returning from many flights at nondescript first world airports, there has to be a Pavlovian link with seeing the carpet and the feeling of returning to your home town.
It also is characteristic of the design language of the late 80's and early 90's, and echoes the visuals of 90's MAX trains and buses. So this powerful sense of place wasn't just based on it being an initial cue as you entered the airport (though I'd argue that is a major part of its appeal), but also a motif that rhymed off of the larger public experience in Portland.
Throw in the cognitive dissonance of jet travel wrecking all of Portlander's efforts at being sustainable and carbon neutral and I think you have a very emotionally charged symbol. It's a 3-hit combo right in the feels. So a sense of home, nostalgia, and complex feelings surrounding sustainability are all wrapped up in a goofy carpet design.
That or the lead levels in Portland's water are getting too high again.
The airport carpet was my second clue that Portland was awful.
Any good sanity damage campaign should start out with horrible flooring. I've kicked off "Holiday in Carcossa" that way twice
I always just figured all of Portland was carpeted like that.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on July 13, 2015, 03:52:05 AM
I always just figured all of Portland was carpeted like that.
It is. Except for the "green lane", which is carpeted with dead cyclists. On account of the "bicycle lane" is also the "electric totally silent tram lane".
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2015, 03:54:38 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on July 13, 2015, 03:52:05 AM
I always just figured all of Portland was carpeted like that.
It is. Except for the "green lane", which is carpeted with dead cyclists. On account of the "bicycle lane" is also the "electric totally silent tram lane".
That seemed like a good idea in the planning meetings, I bet.
Quote from: N E T on July 12, 2015, 11:24:55 PM
I think it has to do with many airports looking very similar so we get attached to the parts that make it unique.
The carpet is one of the first indications that you've arrived in Portland when you get off the plane, so for Portlanders returning from many flights at nondescript first world airports, there has to be a Pavlovian link with seeing the carpet and the feeling of returning to your home town.
It also is characteristic of the design language of the late 80's and early 90's, and echoes the visuals of 90's MAX trains and buses. So this powerful sense of place wasn't just based on it being an initial cue as you entered the airport (though I'd argue that is a major part of its appeal), but also a motif that rhymed off of the larger public experience in Portland.
Throw in the cognitive dissonance of jet travel wrecking all of Portlander's efforts at being sustainable and carbon neutral and I think you have a very emotionally charged symbol. It's a 3-hit combo right in the feels. So a sense of home, nostalgia, and complex feelings surrounding sustainability are all wrapped up in a goofy carpet design.
Luckily, the new carpet is equally absolutely hideous, so the legacy can carry on.
(http://www.opb.org/images/upload/c_limit,h_730,q_90,w_940/NewPDXCarpet_nijwgo.jpg)
They basically took the old carpet design and added a sense of motion sickness.
Quote from: Richter on July 13, 2015, 03:34:02 AM
Any good sanity damage campaign should start out with horrible flooring. I've kicked off "Holiday in Carcossa" that way twice
You're the monster who designed it, aren't you?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2015, 01:30:43 AM
The airport carpet was my second clue that Portland was awful.
Wait, what was the first?
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 14, 2015, 12:08:23 AM
Quote from: N E T on July 12, 2015, 11:24:55 PM
I think it has to do with many airports looking very similar so we get attached to the parts that make it unique.
The carpet is one of the first indications that you've arrived in Portland when you get off the plane, so for Portlanders returning from many flights at nondescript first world airports, there has to be a Pavlovian link with seeing the carpet and the feeling of returning to your home town.
It also is characteristic of the design language of the late 80's and early 90's, and echoes the visuals of 90's MAX trains and buses. So this powerful sense of place wasn't just based on it being an initial cue as you entered the airport (though I'd argue that is a major part of its appeal), but also a motif that rhymed off of the larger public experience in Portland.
Throw in the cognitive dissonance of jet travel wrecking all of Portlander's efforts at being sustainable and carbon neutral and I think you have a very emotionally charged symbol. It's a 3-hit combo right in the feels. So a sense of home, nostalgia, and complex feelings surrounding sustainability are all wrapped up in a goofy carpet design.
Luckily, the new carpet is equally absolutely hideous, so the legacy can carry on.
(http://www.opb.org/images/upload/c_limit,h_730,q_90,w_940/NewPDXCarpet_nijwgo.jpg)
Needs more neural network dogs.
Quote from: The Johnny on July 14, 2015, 12:52:46 AM
Needs more neural network dogs.
(https://dreamscope-prod-v1.s3.amazonaws.com/images/8452c29e-7035-4d18-868d-b104f51ffcef.jpeg)
:spittake:
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 14, 2015, 12:15:59 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2015, 01:30:43 AM
The airport carpet was my second clue that Portland was awful.
Wait, what was the first?
The fact that it was pouring buckets and the bastards didn't bother with a jetway. They just pulled the stairs up and let everyone get good and soaked.
Also, the United Airlines arrival area, once you're indoors (but before you get up to the actual gate areas) looks like something out of Silent Hill.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 14, 2015, 01:46:42 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 14, 2015, 12:52:46 AM
Needs more neural network dogs.
(https://dreamscope-prod-v1.s3.amazonaws.com/images/8452c29e-7035-4d18-868d-b104f51ffcef.jpeg)
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: Please tell me how to make my own!
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 14, 2015, 12:08:23 AM
Quote from: N E T on July 12, 2015, 11:24:55 PM
I think it has to do with many airports looking very similar so we get attached to the parts that make it unique.
The carpet is one of the first indications that you've arrived in Portland when you get off the plane, so for Portlanders returning from many flights at nondescript first world airports, there has to be a Pavlovian link with seeing the carpet and the feeling of returning to your home town.
It also is characteristic of the design language of the late 80's and early 90's, and echoes the visuals of 90's MAX trains and buses. So this powerful sense of place wasn't just based on it being an initial cue as you entered the airport (though I'd argue that is a major part of its appeal), but also a motif that rhymed off of the larger public experience in Portland.
Throw in the cognitive dissonance of jet travel wrecking all of Portlander's efforts at being sustainable and carbon neutral and I think you have a very emotionally charged symbol. It's a 3-hit combo right in the feels. So a sense of home, nostalgia, and complex feelings surrounding sustainability are all wrapped up in a goofy carpet design.
Luckily, the new carpet is equally absolutely hideous, so the legacy can carry on.
(http://www.opb.org/images/upload/c_limit,h_730,q_90,w_940/NewPDXCarpet_nijwgo.jpg)
I liked the old one because it looked like an 8 bit airport map and anyone that can afford to fly deserves to have that lurid cyan assault their retinas. In terms of color saturation and high color contrast, it's wildly inappropriate for a carpet which is also why I like it. Take
that bourgeois carbon monsters! The only thing that could have made it better is if there was a bunch of fluorescent colors too.
But the new one is just terrible. It looks like a shitty protractor, or a shitty boat, or some kind of fucked up anchor, and that it ought to be installed in a seaside daycare. The overall color is too muted to be properly offensive and the only thing going for it is that weird texture that makes it look like someone dragged a heavy object on it and damaged the fibers. Now that's a trend I can get behind.
https://dreamscopeapp.com/
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on July 14, 2015, 04:05:37 PM
https://dreamscopeapp.com/
Thx.
For reference for anyone else, the Leprechaun recursion and the Trippy ones are the more dog like distortions.
You had me at "Self Transforming Machine Elves" :lulz: