Peterson now agrees that the lighting is intrusive.
Ten days or so ago, a thread erupted on the Peterson Obsession Board (POB) about the new exterior lighting at the temple in Cody. This thread included a nighttime photograph of the new temple that does, indeed, make it look uncomfortably bright, obtrusive, and disturbingly garish.
”Disturbingly garish” is a good way to describe it Dan.
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Given the relatively close proximity of the temple to the Cody airport, my guess is that the lighting may be as much a safety factor as it is decorative.
Another chimes in:
In reply to Wade Englund
It would be a positive safety factor. During the 1970s energy crisis the Church turned off the lights on the Oakland Temple. The FAA requested that they be turned back on as the temple had become a reporting point for aircraft approaching Oakland and San Francisco.
Given the relatively close proximity of the temple to the Cody airport, my guess is that the lighting may be as much a safety factor as it is decorative.
Another chimes in:
In reply to Wade Englund
It would be a positive safety factor. During the 1970s energy crisis the Church turned off the lights on the Oakland Temple. The FAA requested that they be turned back on as the temple had become a reporting point for aircraft approaching Oakland and San Francisco.
Is it likely that the Cody temple has already become an indispensable, or even important, reporting point? Or is it so close to the airport as to make that moot?
How likely is it that the FAA, in the middle of the energy crisis, would want non-purpose designed lighting (like that of a temple) be used? I don't know, of course, but it would seem that there may be some better way of providing a reporting point, perhaps using some form of lighting that was effective and efficient for the purpose.
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Side note; I’m a 3D artist that’s been contracted to render temple interiors. These clowns have absolutely no visual or artistic taste.
I was told to not include any shadows in my interior renderings. I pushed back, but their feedback was based on some higher up giving a mandate to not “portray any darkness” in the temple.
Do you know what a rendering with no shadow looks like? Flat. Shadow is crucial to visually read form and depth. Without shadow you basically can’t perceive light. You can’t read the curvature of a seat cushion. You can’t even predictably read color. You have no dark to contrast with light. Suddenly the 100% lit room doesn’t look light. Just flat and dull and washed out.
I refuse to put the results in a portfolio because they look like a beginner 3d artist flooded the room with 100 light sources and had no taste.
This is just more of that. What’s beautiful? Architecture that enhances and takes in natural beauty around it. Let it fade into the night to draw attention to the beautiful starry night. Let the night emphasize and contrast against how beautiful the building is in a range of exterior lighting as diverse as all of nature’s incredible displays. Day, night, sunrise, overcast, full moon.
But no. Light that idiot day and night. Crank it up to 100. Let the no shadow police have their way based on a comment from the 12. Shut down artistic professionals that study this for a living because you know better.
The irony is staggering. This is basically the most Mormon approach you can have. Aligns perfectly with so many other aspects of life they love to ruin.
That’s my rant. Sorry to this town and all of our temple towns that lack local protections.
Mormons fetishize purity; it’s not surprising that they want to dot the world with gaudy white bright buildings to virtue signal that supposed righteousness to the heathens around them.
It’s very reminiscent of Trump building his ballroom. It’s like a soothing mechanism to vindicate themselves.
Totally bonkers.
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