TAG: airports
brian eno and music for airports- the inspiration
"Brian Eno talks about what inspired him to create Music for Airports, the album that gave birth to the ambient movement"
Tags: airports music design inspiration
JetBlue Begins Reimbursing Stranded Passengers
"The company will begin payments ranging from $25 toward a future flight to a round-trip ticket to passengers kept waiting by the airline’s own mistakes."
Tags: nytimes airports travel business
Air Traffic as Seen by the FAA
"The following flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne."
Tags: video airports travel emergence maps design visualization
Screening People with Clearances
"We don't have infinite dollars to spend on security. We need to choose where to spend our money, and we're best off if we spend it in ways that give us the most security for our dollar."
Tags: security airports travel design
Wikipedia entry on the guy who's been living in Charles de Gaulle airport since 1988. Reportedly he's the person Tom Hanks modeled his character in The Terminal after.
Tags: airports travel politics paris movies
At the New JetBlue Terminal, Passengers May Pirouette to Gate 3
"The architect David Rockwell and the choreographer Jerry Mitchell collaborate to streamline the airport experience."
Tags: dance architecture design nyc airports
"There are relatively few universal socially acceptable excuses for interacting with strangers in public spaces, but sport is one of them - useful if you are thinking of use cases for shared viewing of mobile TV for example."
Tags: sports mobile airports culture soccer
The dance of people in public spaces
"Looking for a new angle on movement vs. environment, Rockwell [hired to design the “interior experience� . . . of the new JetBlue terminal . . . at JFK Airport] took a strange turn: He hired choreographer Jerry Mitchell to help him."
Tags: design architecture inspiration nyc airports dance
"Unlike churches, people in airports aren’t much invested in helping with your problems. There’s not much comfort to be found here. And I guess that’s where Pretzel Time comes in."
Tags: culture religion airports