Do you see what they see?
Do these look like guns to you?
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Comments (24)
No, Jack, they look like rifles.
Posted by Auggie | January 4, 2008 8:31 AM
Aren't rifles guns?
Posted by Jack Bog | January 4, 2008 8:35 AM
They look like an orange, stylized representation of pollution flowing out of the plants of Big Business into our precious rivers.
Posted by John Fairplay | January 4, 2008 8:35 AM
Yep, 3 rifles,my 8 year old also said yes on the guns.
Posted by meg | January 4, 2008 8:35 AM
geez....I saw abstractions of landscape particular to that region. If they were guns wouldn't they be black with fire coming out of them.....?
Posted by kathe w. | January 4, 2008 8:53 AM
With the gun suggeston I immediatly saw 3 rifles. But, if no gun suggestion had been made I more then likely would of only seen an abstract design of waves or water flowing.
Posted by Darrin B. | January 4, 2008 9:17 AM
Yup...guns, rifles... and just plain ugly to boot.
The city need to get its money back on that one.
Posted by portland native | January 4, 2008 9:49 AM
Aren't rifles guns?
A question answered for you on the first day of basic training.
Posted by zeb quinn | January 4, 2008 9:53 AM
hilarious ... Full Metal Jacket, indeed.
Yeah, does kinda look like ol'timey rifles. I'm less likely to see the handgun version. Though, if you look at it as maroon on yellow, between the guns, it looks like two pairs of shearers (you know, for shearing livestock).
Maybe people are projecting their own thoughts on to an abstract piece? (And why I am thinking about shearers?)
Posted by Chris | January 4, 2008 10:04 AM
It's like asking Huckabee whether that was really a cross or not floating behind him as he gave his Christmas message.
Posted by zeb quinn | January 4, 2008 10:15 AM
They look like rifles to me.
Posted by Isaac Laquedem | January 4, 2008 10:41 AM
Rifles. And why not in a part of the country where you can buy them at Wal-mart?
Posted by Cynthia | January 4, 2008 11:34 AM
Looks like the hindquarters of three ungulates fleeing from riflemen.
Posted by Bark Munster | January 4, 2008 11:57 AM
Y'all missed the funniest part of the article:
"Four people have contacted the nonprofit Committee for Downtown Yakima to voice their concerns, said Mandi Ellison, the committee's director of user experience."
Posted by Matt | January 4, 2008 12:00 PM
Focus on the negative image reveals old time ink pens. Anyone have a problem with those?
Posted by genop | January 4, 2008 12:09 PM
Reading the linked YakimaHerald article was quite telling. An apparently unemployed Yakima resident "independent designer" ignited the complaints about the design created by a Seattle based design firm.
I guess its all in the flow of the commision dollrs.
I saw rivers and ridges between the rivers, not guns.
Posted by Nonny Mouse | January 4, 2008 12:12 PM
Could have been worse.
Posted by Jack Bog | January 4, 2008 12:23 PM
Kinda look like rifles I guess, but who cares? I have seen similar graphics on cars owned by teenagers. Just doesnt seem like that big of deal.
Posted by Jon | January 4, 2008 12:25 PM
Everyone sees what they want to see. If you hadn't biased me, I would have seen rivers, but since you did, I immediately saw rifles.
Posted by Pdx632 | January 4, 2008 1:29 PM
"Looks like the hindquarters of three ungulates..."
You saw Hillary in it?
Posted by Larry K | January 4, 2008 2:32 PM
The Rorschach test? They look like penises.
Posted by Friends of meatpuppet | January 4, 2008 3:49 PM
"Could have been worse."
Thanks, Jack! I've been struggling over a new landscape design concept for my place. Ahhhh, subliminal motivation.
Posted by Alexander | January 4, 2008 6:10 PM
They look like three rivers to me.
Are there any rivers near Yakima?
Posted by Mister Tee | January 4, 2008 7:54 PM
If you stand on your head and look at them, they say, "Paul is dead."
Posted by Cousin Jim | January 4, 2008 10:06 PM