#anyway sorry i get real passionate about how late stage captialism made modern designs boring as shit
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tarrare-big-naturals · 10 months ago
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OKAY AS A CHICAGOEAN I KNOW THE EXACT RAINFOREST CAFE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT AND I JUST PASSED IT THE OTHER DAY AND WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS
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The giant tree frog, Cha-Cha, is back with the OG Rainforest Cafe creator in the UK btw but the building looks like this and it's sad knowing that this really beautiful work of art that has been here for YEARS is gonna get turned into something shitty and boring just like the rock and roll mcdonalds (yes just like the song RIP my boy Wesley Willis) down the street. Apparently due to weed laws and zoning or some shit it's no longer getting turned into a dispensery and at the time of writing is still up for lease but still I hope for the (least likely) outcome of it being turned into some cool thing and being able to keep the mushrooms and monkeys and whatnot bc ain't no way those are copywritten.
Or Rainforest Cafe could just reopen because downtown Chicago doesn't have cool shit anymore and I'm sick of modern day places looking uniform and boring.
For decades stoners were renowned for their aesthetics. For their blacklight posters and lava lamps, for their airbrushed dragon murals and electrical shock orb thingies from Spencer Gifts. Then they legalized weed and every weed store became the flattest, emptiest minimalist void imaginable. They're putting a weed store in a former Rainforest Cafe and they're tearing out all of the rainforest decor to make it just a big empty space with walls painted the blandest green they can find. They tore down paradise and put up a place where a business major tries to tell you CDB oil can cure cancer
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