Park / En Midvinternattsdröm
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22-February 06
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Couldn't have said it better myself. I think this will be one of those entries that people look back on and think, why didn't that place much higher? It's just hard to place this park against others, it's too different.
Ironically, with all the massive architecture, my favorite part was the broken bridge and the grassy section next to it. That was beautiful.
And DJ, that may have been the best response I've ever heard, and I have new found respect for you after reading it.
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Hey, I'm studying French this semester. Suddenly, accents and markings have become important to me.
No, obviously they won't'!!
As you can read from Toon's and Panic's responses above.
Sometimes judging a row of parks within limited time is just very difficult, and from the reaction of 2 of the judges already we know that they would have placed it far higher after some thoughts, meaning that at least one of the stiil-to come-parks would have been placed lower
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Now it's starting to make sense. That coaster appears to be a stage. It's like you've got a whole interactive play going on. The architecture seems to reflect the commonfolk with it's dull and drab colors, and the common forms of transport. It's like you ride the coaster and get a better view of the play, and that whole dome building is where the actors rehearse. The coaster doesn't seem to be random at all, anymore. It seems so silly that it took me this long to figure out the true brilliance of this entry.
Edited by HandyAndyG, 23 February 2006 - 08:17 PM.
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Yeah, I guess you're right. It's just that since I made the park, its problems are very apparent to me, especially since I still had much more I would've liked to have done. But looking at it again today, I guess even as it is, it is pretty good.
I don't really get your theory, HandyAndyG. It sounds like it might fly, and unlike my theory, it sticks to the name of the park, but I just don't really get it. Maybe if I read it over a few more times and look at the park and such.
My idea, though it's probably too influenced by all the sci-fi I pay attention to, is that it's something similar to "The Dig" or "Evangelion," where the population disappeared because they reached the pinnacle of their civilization and they wanted to move on, and reach a higher level of existence. They achieved this by using the coaster to open some kind of gateway for them to cross over with, and then their combined consciousness is stored within the large "World" building. It would explain the name of the building, since it would be like a giant hard drive where the population's consciousness now resides. My explanation for the name of the coaster was that it had some connection to the numeric population of the city that ascended. But none of that really makes any sense.
So far Cork's theory regarding the nuclear winter and the coaster being an experiment is my favorite.
i want to hear dj's story for it, though.
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I think the big red building is a hospital (big H on roof), and there is not a clear entry to it. I think the entrance is underground, like a lot of the city is. So maybe when people are too sick to be of any service to society, determined in the hospital, they enter "The World" building through those barricaded passageways, which could be to prevent the people from spreading their sickness, and have some kind of service to say goodbye or something. They are then sent to the coaster through the barricaded passageways again, and are sacrificed. I am not sure about this at all because it would make more sense if it went around the circle thing slower, and then sped up. That is at least what I would think would represent some kind of thing like that better. Anyway, if there were any survivors, that would show that they weren't in fact a menace to society, and would go live on the other island, as they were still banished. The city also is very secretive about its rituals, which is why there are those white-gray, bunkers stretching way underground. The beauty just outside those bunker-like things shows that this city's society is terribly dark, and evil. I think that the coaster number represents how many people have been sacrificed in total. Alas, the town is deserted because whoever was in charge of the city determined that everyone didn't serve a purpose to society, and everyone was sacrificed, except for a few people. (aren't there mechanics in the harbor and a guy in The World building?) I think this is some sort of warning towards letting people acquire to much power, as people are corrupted easily, and a great city like this could be destroyed. I still have no idea what the significance of the name means, the significance of the area in the middle of the coaster, or the "pop" thing.
What a park. I love it, and I will continue to look back at this not only for the architecture, but for the intriguing mystery! Great work.
Edited by postit, 26 February 2006 - 11:35 AM.
edit-just noticed some huge smokestacks. Why would there be smokestacks on a stadium? The buildings across the river seem to be much more colorful which might mean something. The electric fence seems to drive postit's point across.
Edited by HandyAndyG, 26 February 2006 - 12:39 PM.
It is fantastic work (except the coaster
I'd like to see more work from you!
You will see new work from me, as well as hear my thoughts on the park, on the twelth of December, 2012. I promise.
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Isn't that when the Maya calendar says it will be Doomsday?...interesting response, but maybe he was just being sarcastic and random about not ever getting anything done...
i think that's it. maybe not though, who knows. quit being so mysterious! ;P