Welcome to The Blandest Hallway in Dallas
This is a little extracurricular, but bear with me. I know a lot of you work downtown, so this is applicable.
The picture above is a hallway in the tunnel between Fountain Place and Lincoln Plaza downtown. It is the blandest hallway on the face of the earth. White walls, white ceilings, white floors. I believe it was inspired by a scene from a Stanley Kubrick film.
Would it kill them to put up some paintings? Throw a blue stripe down the wall? I’d even take cream at this point. I’m surprised they didn’t find some kind of white metal for the hand railings.
Point is, no matter how much we bicker on here about zoning, and land use, at least Park Cities buildings have colored walls.
I think it’s begging for something more abstract. Perhaps red paint splatter. Maybe a red hand print dragged down the wall?
I like your thinking @HorrorFan. It does have a bit of an American Psycho feel to it.
Wow, alert your skater friends. Looks perfect for some grinding.
Can you find anything good to write about? Everything I’ve ever read from you is denigrating, sarcastic and hateful.
Why did you delete my comment?
Can you never find something nice to say in this paper? Did you major in sarcasm or journalism?
looks like it could use some homeless people and maybe some urine and vomit stains. at least it doesn’t look dark and dingy
@clare– you are a gem. Please search the archives for Merritt Patterson’s past posts to really get your knickers in a twist.
@clare: So a light little piece about some tunnel downtown is “denigrating, sarcastic and hateful”? You are way too sheltered. Go play with your cats, please.
I’m with clare. I don’t understand where or when the constant tossing of someone (or something) under the bus became conflated with worthwhile observation and intelligent commentary (let alone wit). (Lack genuine creativity? Insult something!) The folks who post here on behalf of the PCP regularly give the impression of being terrified at the prospect of moving the default setting for their editorial tone upward from “snotty undergraduate.”
Why, then, you might ask, is it okay for me to criticize them? Because they’re the ones RUNNING A NEWSPAPER. More should be expected from them. They should be setting a tone for the community, or at least helping do so. Not pandering for cheap, sarcastic laughs.
The scary thing is, I don’t think Clare and Z are kidding. Who exactly is Bradford “insulting” here?
Painters. And minimalists. Hugely insulting. Bradford was sitting up on his throne in judgement of all. I’m sure he spent hours on this contemplating how he could provoke an emotional response of anger and disgust at the stark white walls of our subterranean urban imprisonment.
My dumb self was thinking about conducting a social experiment by scaring the crap out of people by simply standing in the hallway wearing a clear plastic raincoat and locking eyes with each passer. And smiling. Always smiling.
But clearly, this wasn’t a light hearted post about a creeeeepy white underground hallway. It was an attack on society as we know it.
I was sucked in. but now my eyes are opened.
Bradford, you should be ashamed to print such a denigrating, sarcastic and hateful article in your paper!
I’m canceling my subscription! I didn’t pay to read such things!
You might be onto something, Bradford… How about a mural? Something as colorful as the city it’s in…
I was in an airport recently (Las Vegas, Houston, Atlanta, I can’t remember, but it wasn’t Dallas) and saw a mural and thought, “Gee, that’s really nice for an airport.” Nothing wrong with a random act of visual interest.
I shouldn’t be reading this newspaper as I just canceled my subscription but I guess I am pirating my news now.
I bet there are very talented artists that would complete such a project for little or possibly no pay. It would be an honor and possibly open doors to selling other artwork.
Khakijack,
Thanks for the giggle this morning. Those poor, mistreated minimalists.
a terrible white conspiracy if you ask me. Perhaps planned by a white dwarf. Definitely not a black hole.