Airports

Flouting Jaymie's suggestion we not do all of our posts at once, I have another post.

I live in NorCal, and I love to hate flying out of San Jose Mineta. It's covered with overpasses and concrete and construction. However, flying out at night, the airport had used lights to colour the undersides of all the overpasses. It made all the concrete much less depressing, and especially the cool blues highlighting the bridges with amber street lights above them, there was a really clean contrast. I thought it was a really neat example of commercial/industrial lighting, being used to make the airport look cosmopolitan and functional. This especially when it's under construction, and a hassle to get around in, was interesting.

In any case, it was really neat to look at all the lines the light created, and how the lights worked with each other and with the lights of the airport beyond them. Especially how it worked to, at least for me, transform a place I've always understood to be grey and complicated and grungy into something that looked appealing and happening.