Re-Tooling TBL

For several years TBL was a blog where I wrote about a wide variety of topics. Those postings are still in the Blog Archive and many are about professional development for engineers. I am now transitioning TBL to be a place where my current and former students can find information related to job searches.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Detroit Airport








Have you ever been to the Detroit Airport? They have two really cool art exhibits. The first is a 1/4 mile long tunnel that has all of these cool colors flashing in concert with classical music. Very very neat. I was wearing my ICC sweatshirt that on the back has a list of "You know you are an engineering student if:" As I was taking pictures, a guy came up behind me and said "you know you are an engineering student if you take pictures of this tunnel"!

The second artwork is a huge circular marble table that is a water fountain. The fountain has many different circular cylinder water tubes that fly all over the place. I often stare at it for 10-15 minutes at a time as I am passing through.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh my gosh - that is too funny! First, that the guy took the time to read your sweatshirt and then to comment on it! You should've replied, "Nope, it means my wife is a scrapbooker." :)
Angie

Anonymous said...

For being the worst city in the US, there's defaintely some neat stuff to see down here.

Anonymous said...

Ron:

We were just there a couple weekends ago...and I guess I should have had my shirt on, because I just sat in the tunnel mesmerized...and little Gracie really enjoyed it.

Looking forward to this weekend!
Robb