Comments on: Carpet Review Take Two

By: ericn1300

ericn1300 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:43:13 +0000

So what is this delightfully decorated space actually used for? Maybe the addition of a few cubicles would break up the pattern some and actually put the space to use.

By: dog

dog — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:25:58 +0000

When I stepped off the elevator I saw an image in that carpet of the Virgin Mary and Satan duking it out over which fastest growing city in the intermountain West has the most ugly buildings, uninspired architects, and city councils in developers pockets.

Went to drop the kids at the pool and when I came back they were still at it.

By: chessplayer

chessplayer — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:27:19 +0000

I think it’s actually an aerial view of Surprise Valley. Surprise!!

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:10:25 +0000

AMEN GORDON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:26:33 +0000

Oh, I dunno. Seems like officials’ taste in carpet is about the same as their taste in development projects to approve.
Did you expect anything else?

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:38:06 +0000

The picture is good, but it just doesn’t do the carpet effect justice. The caller is right. Your visual senses are overpowered by the disorienting affect of the carpet with you first step off the elevator. You get used to it over time, but it is a terrible distraction.

I am not one to heap criticism on others for fun, and I recognize that the carpet, however awful, won’t disrupt the life of your average Boisean. I do think we ought to take care to make our public spaces attractive. I doubt better carpet would cost much more (that is, unless, the carpet was picked because it was on super sale). We should give City Hall the same aesthetic attention that we give our parks.

By the way, does anyone know who selected the awful carpet?

By: Sisyphus

Sisyphus — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:53:03 +0000

I agree with the caller though not about Fleetwood Mac. Its more like techno. Chemical Brothers maybe.

By: KJ

KJ — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:14:46 +0000

‘Fleetwood Mac playing’….oh yeah they were the biggest drug band in the 70’s. Thank goodness the person writing the comment hasn’t heard of the Beatles and ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.’

By: James Bond

James Bond — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:25:48 +0000

It looks an awful lot like the Matrix.

By: That Other Guy

That Other Guy — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:38:39 +0000

OMG… THAT PHOTO MAKES ME WANT TO PUKE… SERIOUSLY!