The Denver International Airport

[pizzaman777]

Found something interesting, in this article from U.S. News and World Report. The article is from 1995:

Quote:Connections. Voters approved the project, but the campaign exposed the raw politics and big money behind the airport. Pena himself left office in 1991 and became "of counsel" to Brownstein's law firm the next year. He also started Pena Investment Advisors Inc. US West gave his new company $10 million to manage, and several local business people helped to capitalize Pena, including Robert and Linda Alvarado, who won a controversial contract to build the airport's office building. Alvarado Construction's first bid was deemed insufficient, but Pena's staff allowed the company to enter a new bid. "There was a lot of pressure from the mayor's office to let them bid again," says one former city official (box, Page 53). Pena says he knows nothing about the Alvarados' bids.

Another Pena investor, Charles Ansbacher, was paid $1 a year to place $5.3 million of artwork in the new airport. Later, Ansbacher, who is married to Swanee Hunt, an oil heiress who is now U.S. ambassador to Austria, founded the New World Airport Commission, which spent $566,000 in city funds on airport events. Pena divested himself of his company shares when he moved to Washington to become secretary of transportation, but the firm still uses his name.

Paid $1 a year? :huh:

[Shinobi]

There is a portrait from that airport in a place called Brixton on a big wall
which is situated in South London, it is round the back of a market walk through called electric avenue.
(famous place through a reggae tune from Aswad)

It's the portrait of the strange looking person in the gas mask and the children with lots of symbology and other crazyness going on.

I told wokensheep about this a while back in the IRCchat last year.

If anyone from the London area or by chance that area of London
happens to know what I am talking about then please do try to get some
snaps and get them developed so we can up them here for all to see.

I dont frequent London as much as I used to, but if I ever get the chance
I will do this myself.

[metalcore]

(11-04-2006 04:26 AM)fairnessfreak Wrote:  From what the linked article stated (on the Tidbits page), Dzit and Gaii were supposedly Navajo for White and Mountain.

Quote:Oh, make that three times. This exactly means White (Dzit) mountain (gaii) in the Navajo language. No clue what "dit" is. The only dit I know of is Morse code - dots are called 'dits'. I doubt that's got a thing to do with it. Sounded good though, huh?

But, I believe Lagli is Navajo for white with, I believe, the plural modifier being gai ( as in Ah-Le-Gai > white clothes ). Dzi is Navajo for mountain. FWIW, I am not famililar with the language.

this would make sense because the eastern mountain in navajo mythology is also on the floor, as is "mnt blanco" the english name for the eastern mountain that represents the eastern pillar of the world.