Where We're Going, We Don't NEED Maps!

For whatever reason, maps seem to be popular stock art.  I get it; they're bland (and thus non-offensive), (moderately) informative, and (sometimes...although rarely) interesting.

  

Whenever I see these dull pieces of stock art, I can't help but think of this classic dialogue from Arrested Development:

Narrator: Thanks to the family’s largesse, Buster has studied everything from Native American tribal ceremonies... to cartography: the mapping of uncharted territories.
Michael: Hasn’t everything already sort of been discovered, though by, like, Magellan and Cortés, ...
Buster: Oh, yeah, yeah.
Michael: NASA...all those folks?
Buster: Those guys did a pretty good job.

 So...how to make a map interesting?  For me, the natural conclusion was to take my dino buddy...

  ...to the final frontier:

...'till next time, may all your hotel art be interesting...or at least fun to mock.

xoxo, bridget

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P.S. Just in case the reference in the title eluded you:

In Search of New Material

So, I know that if I were intelligent and more business-minded and less lazy, I would be hitting up garage sales and thrift stores for my materials.  But...as we've already established, I'm lazy. 

(I'm not sorry that I'm not sorry)

I spent a good deal of time on Friday foraging (you guessed it) the s*** piles called art at the back of my local Ross store.  As usual, they didn't disappoint.  

During my first visit I was just so excited and...inspired...that I failed to notice variations on the same crap(per) theme looking right at me:

...over...

...and over...

...and. over. again.

(This last one even came bedazzled!!!)

Seriously, who decided lousy pictures of bathrooms were a good idea? I'm assuming the idea is to hang them in one's room of rest, but it doesn't make a lot of sense.   If I saw one of these in a bathroom, I would hear the following internal dialogue:

"Hey! Buddy! just in case you forgot, you're in the crapper!  Here's a picture with wacked out perspective and proportions to remind you of that!  Enjoy the dump!"

...and if you happened upon a picture of this not  in a restroom...um..why?

As we've already established, bathrooms aren't pretty. They're gross. Not to mention an incredibly boring art subject.

Mass art maker people: PLEASE STOP THE MADNESS.

(In other news, new awful hotel revisited art coming soon!)