Lousy photo of some Maori paddling a waka down a fake river. Why were they paddling so fast? They were trying to escape a Lord of the Rings Film Location.
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I tried to get a nice pic of Milford Sound, but this silly person came on deck and photo-bombed my panorama. . .
lousy photo of the rice terraces. . . some silly person on a Balinese swing kept getting in my frame.
After ten minutes in Rainforest Cafe, the place went bananas. The sky darkened and lightning flashed. The animatronic animals started seizing. The air filled with howls, squawks, and trumpeting elephants. And I lost my shit.
I thought back to all the fake nature that I’ve visited, all the way back to the Enchanted Tiki Room. I wondered if these places were bad. Fake nature can be used for all kinds of things, right? Education. Art. Religion. Entertainment. Solace. Marketing. But how does it affect us? Does it hijack our primitive wiring? Hearken us back to original biomes? Remind us of places that no longer exist? That never existed? And why was the Rainforest Cafe trying to spook the fuck out of me?
I turned to my wife. “This place is a portal to hell. We gotta get out of here.”
Lousy photo of the Arbol de la Vida (the Tree of Life). . . who knew it was in a Mexican Restaurant in Denver?
Went to Kansas this weekend and took a lousy photo of a Pony Express Rider (little smudge on the right). . . not sure how he’s gonna get around that fence.
Here’s a lousy photo of a small section of the Tempelhof, an old airfield turned into an over-900 acre park. These dudes were playing a massive game of four-square.
BTW, the Tempelhof was the proposed location for a giant fake mountain called the Berg. If they ever make this thing, I’ll move to Berlin.
After leaving Berlin we spent a few days in Madrid where I took a lousy photo of Guernica. This is a famous painting by Picasso with a long political history that delves into how the horrors of war are viewed by outsiders. Fascinating to see how people react to this painting today.
If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. –Picasso
We spent a few days in Vegas, communing with aliens. . . . here’s a lousy photo of the Sphere from the 27th floor of the Venetian Tower.
Lousy photo of the lobby of the Aria. . . If you wanna stay in a greenie weenie resort, this one is for you. . . LEED certified. Awesome plant displays. Totally different vibe than the other mega complexes. Oh, sure, it’s got a mall and a casino. But extra power is drawn off the slot machines to help air condition the building. So every time you gamble, you’re saving the planet!