{"id":3434,"date":"2008-10-08T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2008-10-08T13:06:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T18:06:54","slug":"form-follows-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3434","title":{"rendered":"Form Follows Function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As my son and I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3339\">traversed the new 35W Bridge<\/a> a couple weeks ago, we noticed wavy concrete sculptures marking the boundaries of the span.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not an art critic but I know it when I see it and this aint it. The objects sit awkwardly on the center divider.\u00a0While their fabrication in concrete lends to the\u00a0aura of fortitude that is reassuring while crossing the mighty Miss\u00a0on a bridge where one once ceased, the lack of contrast is uninspiring.\u00a0The objects look to have been tacked on\u00a0as an afterthought.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, their purpose may be less about pleasing the eye and more about saving us from less than optimally oxidized particles.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/\">the new sculptures are made from a type of concrete that is photocatalytic<\/a>, meaning they will be able to convert gases like carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides and sulfur dioxide to higher oxidized states, making them less damaging to the environment. Another benefit of the new concrete mixture is that it never looks old as it maintains a white oxidized color on its outer skin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/article\/stories\/S608052.shtml?cat=206\">This is the same process<\/a> used by a catalytic converter in automobiles.<\/p>\n<p>The monuments were designed using the international cartographic symbol for water.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Many thanks\u00a0for the definition of\u00a0photocatalytic.\u00a0I might otherwise have thought it described an object, once viewed, that induces discomfort in the right brain. I\u00a0sit corrected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my son and I traversed the new 35W Bridge a couple weeks ago, we noticed wavy concrete sculptures marking the boundaries of the span. I&#8217;m not an art critic but I know it when I see it and this aint it. The objects sit awkwardly on the center divider.\u00a0While their fabrication in concrete lends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge-collapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}