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By Sissi Aguila
We all know the FIU campuses are beautiful, vast and exotic places. But for all their beauty and splendor, the more time you spend enjoying the scenery, the more you notice things are not always what they seem. At some point you will come across something and ask, “Why?”
Above are nine that have made us go, “huh?”
Let’s us know in the comment section of any odd things you’ve noticed around campus.
– by Doug Garland
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Cool article. The bridge to nowhere is a prop of the Kissing Bridge from a Homecoming parade float when the theme was FIU traditions. Sorry to ruin the mystery
The Architecture building thing is pretty weird and creppy.. lol
LOL. An explanation to the bells would be amazing, but the mystery is still one I’ve always loved. Great article.
The bridge in front of GL is a prop from the Panther Prowl and Lip Sync of Homecoming 2009! It looked good back then so that is why it was left out there, for the university to enjoy, although i dont suggest stepping across it anymore! Cheers.
Great article! The sounds at Paul Cejas always creeped me out and no one believed me when I would mention them!
I always wonders why PC/CP looks like something out of Jurassic Park
It all makes perfect sense. Finally.
Loved this piece. Ah, the mystery of the bells…
The architecture building by far is the creepiest thing ever. I hate it cuz it just unnerves me. Also always wondered about that little mini bridge that is randomly posted in the grass. This stuff is totally on point. Random stuff FIU.
I’ve been on the faculty here since 1975 and have enjoyed many of the “unexplained things” on campus. I’ll try to send a favorite or two.
By way of an explanation, the sound above the passageway in the Paul Cejas Architecture building is an installation by the great sound artist Gustavo Matamoros. The work was commissioned as part of Florida’s “Art in Public Places”, allowing for a small percentage of the building’s cost to be devoted to permanent art works. “Weird and creepy”…yes, but it wakes up my hearing big time. When I go by there, I like to hang around for a little bit to enjoy it. Here is a link to a work he did in 2007.
http://gustavo-matamoros.blogspot.com/
The SoA thing is pretty explainable. If you look in the video when she’s facing the engineering building, there a long overhang. Under that is a metal box-shape that runs the length of it. That is a sound installation by a sound artist. I forgot his name, but his studio is on Lincoln Road. If you’ve been there recently and been hit with random sounds coming from speakers on the side of the building where the Britto studio is, that’s the same guy. His studio is next door.
Can anyone tell me why there’s a Coral Gables concrete street sign in the lake next to Chili’s Too in GC?
The fake ducks are typically used to disguise an irrigation system pulling water from the lake into a sprinkler system.
I may be wrong but I’m pretty sure the bell sounds come from the church across from FIU on 107th, St. Agatha Catholic Church. I attended school there K-8,and the bells came with the new church building back in 2006 or 2007