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I’ve been quieter than usual lately, as I was über-busy conducting airport inspections over multiple days. 13K steps per day instead of sitting in front of a laptop broke not only my casting habits, but my fitness ones, too. I’m sharing this as an excuse to say that I love airports. No, not the pitiful excuses like those found in the US or Europe. I’m talking about Asian airports, in all their chaotic neutral glory. Airports are the epitome of liminal spaces (as this picture taken today illustrates perfectly). A place between places. A rendezvous spot to connect and also part ways. A bridge between cultures, codes, and norms; only with underpriced retail, overpriced food, and an endless spectacle outside the windows for aviation geeks. Truly, what’s better than an airport?
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@maurelian.eth
what do you inspect airports for?
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@nomygod.eth
that might be even longer than the severance hallway lol
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@pjc
This is how I feel about “downstairs” vs “upstairs” in big formal houses. The rooms that “do work” (kitchens, garages, workshops). When I move through an airport and everything “just works” (when I end up in the right place, almost like I have some divine wind at my back guiding me” I am agog at the thousands of tiny design decisions that all add up to “Good” (capital G, shit worked….”Quality” manifest) I love your attention and appreciation of this Thomas in your professional window onto these amazing human coordination structures. Beauty in the seemingly banal.
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What airport is this need to tell my Asian gf to never critique European airports ever again
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@archipelago
A fellow airport aficionado! I would enjoy working at an airport. How did you get into your line of work in the first place?
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@luigistranieri
What’s the worst airport you inspected? I think I’m airport phobic 😂
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i want to be part of the ground crew inspecting the plan, how do i become this sir?
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@johncamkiran
Perhaps only a spaceport
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airport adventures sound like the ultimate liminal experience. love the passion for aviation
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@teleyinex.eth
One of my favorite airports is Singapore. Love it.
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Istanbul airport, such an amazingly functional and well designed place
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@ic
There was a movie where they were saying airports are basically about love.
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@thatalexpalmer.eth
I like the poetry of this. And I love airports.
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Take. Rest Sir
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Feels like you'd enjoy the never ending corridors of Backrooms https://backroomsgame.io/
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Couldn’t agree more 🛩️
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i never seen airports in such a philosophical way.. the last paragraph of this cast is very profund
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