Posted on 09/14/2005 4:54:48 PM PDT by jimbo123
I'd be okay with leaving the crescent... if the design change involves putting a large red circle all the way around it and a red slash down the middle from the upper left to the lower right.
Have you always been this naive.. or did you have to take lessons?
Caller to my local talk radio here in Memphis said the artist was hired by the Heinz foundation to do this memorial...Terazor's liberal hand at work.
Have you always been this naive.. or did you have to take lessons?
Then why didn't he call it "Broken Circle"?
LOL, no it won't actually be stepped liked terraced fields, that is just a computer animation using contour lines to mimic the old foam models that were used before computers. Architects would use knives to cut strips off of foam sheets and build up a slope for a 3-dimensional model, but it was supposed to represent a smooth slope. When built it will actually be rolling and smooth, not stair-stepped, he's just being cutesy in his graphics. They get off on stuff like that, lest anyone think that their creativity is anywhere close to that of the average person (sniff.)
Well, isn't that cute? Anybody have any more information on this? That would certainly explain a lot of things. (Aside from the fact that the guy - see picture above - looks like an arrogant liberal architect who really thinks he knows better than the great unwashed...)
The present design is that, I've read.
Plenty of similar design solutions - elliptical instead of circular, less "wrap" around the closed figure (it's not a crescent if it is only 90 degrees of a circle)
The crescent of embrace is an in-your-face slam.
Interestingly enough, Todd Beamer said, "Thank you Jesus, let's roll." This was apparently something that he always said at home, sort of a family phrase, and it was heard and recorded by the operator. However, the "Thank you Jesus" part dropped out of the official account almost immediately.
You've got it completely backwords. Artists and architects spend/waste 90% of their time considering symbolism, often trying to force infuse it where it never belonged. The most famous are often infatuated with it, because that's how you differentiate yourself and sell the gullible on your 'genius'.
Ping.
They should get that California feel good architect out of this project. 100% of Freepers could have come up with a better design.
Bring on the new design. I want to see it up close. Bet ya I find something pointing in the direction of Mecca.
personally, i thought a cross to represent the plane with their names where they were seated on the plane would be nice.
Heck, go on and protest! It'll loosen you up for next weekend! :-)
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I wonder how they got the land to build this monument?
Amen. My thoughts exactly.
According to the film the other night they used seat belt buckles, boiling hot water and the food cart to overtake the main guard. Now there is a theme.
ah, yes. I wondered where the buildings were in the model. anyway, I see the hype about the supposed crescent. makes one wonder. why not something that symbolically memorializes those on board... or the US... yeah, that's a provocative design... I was in the landscape design biz for a long time, you can pretty much make whatever you want and things rarely show up by accident.
I recall a landscape designer took a landfill in Florida (on the keys I think) and made an enormous flag out of it, ala Cristo. Again, not at all by accident (googled for the picture and couldn't find it..it's probably on FR here somewhere).
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