The best description I've seen of hotel art is what happens when you go to the store and say "One Art, please"
They should just get realist landscape paintings. You can't go wrong and they're all actual art.
that's so true
We got an apartment with deep pile carpets and a couple of paintings from Sears.
Why was this fucking image dyed the same color as Yoda's fucking foreskin?
Hotel wallpaper
I think it's some sort of game. Since you noticed it, this means that you just lost the game! 🫵
Hotels are quite literally liminal
They aren't the destination, they are the waiting room
As nobody has posted it yet, this vibe is often referred to as [email protected]
love this vibe. and when you get back to the hotel after a long tiring day of adventure, it becomes a welcoming sanctuary. ah I wish I could go on a trip, it's been so long!
This is the same reason why I don’t like staying in hotels. Makes me feel like nothing, dehumanized.
I think it’s quite interesting we can have such opposite reactions to the same thing. I’m more in line with original author- I rather enjoy it. If I reflect on why this may be, I think it’s because I find human-ing pretty exhausting, so a break from that is rather welcome!
and for those using them as emergency shelter, from domestic abuse or homelessness, they are salvation. different strokes, huh.
I've been staying in Airbnbs a few days a month about an hour and a half from where I live each time. It's a strange vibe, too, being in someone else's house that's now used to host strangers. Laying flat on your back, looking up at the ceiling of what was once some kid's bedroom is wild.
The last sentence alone, taken out of context, would open a mystery novel like few others.
Feeling like I can fall out of reality and into the backrooms just by taking the wrong corridor or waking up at the wrong hour.
I like when I open the night stand drawer and there are like 16 different religious books in there.
I've got bibles for taoism, Buddhism, Islam, even a copy of Dianetics all courtesy of the Gideons.
My pastime is vandalizing the bibles. Criticisms, corrections, changing names, signing it as Jesus, drawing pentagrams and devils, that sort of stuff.
Have you people never tried to sleep in a hotel?
There is always, always, somebody screaming next door
You must frequent some strange hotels.
ContraPoints has a great Tangent video about liminal spaces, FYI
It’s the most basic Dasein
I disagree, is most essentially 'das Man' what Heidegger supposed to be the opposite of Dasein:
The opposite of this authentic self [Dasein] is everyday and inauthentic Dasein, the forfeiture of one's individual meaning, destiny and lifespan, in favour of an (escapist) immersion in the public everyday [das Man or the They]
This is exactly why I hate hotels. They are the same everywhere and tend to be located near the same shit everywhere. I much prefer a short term rental so you get to really experience a neighborhood in the city when you travel.
Short term rentals fucked up the housing market.
Short term rentals definitely made things worse, but the housing market was fucked up before short-term rentals became commonplace. They just poured more fuel on the fire. The main problem with the housing market is that homes are used as financial vehicles for investment and speculation.
Then regulate them, but I think this is pretty overstated tbh. There are no short term rentals near me, because it isn't a tourist district, and the housing market is still ridiculous. Likewise, property values in tourist areas have always been absurd.
In reality, there is definitely some overlap, and short term rentals definitely impact the housing market in some places, but it is far from a primary cause of broader housing scarcity.
hotels are the ultimate expression of third space
Everything except chatting in the hall is great
PKD has a brilliant description in We Can Build You.
Man, I just got back into reading his stuff and I instantly remember why he's my favourite author. Poor guy, though.
I read that in a gravelly noir detective voice.
