Amy: "Wow, how horrifying would that be? To just be picked up and manipulated by people four times your size..."
Grace: "Yeah... I sometimes think about how weird it would be if we still had to stand on tiptoe to see over the counter, or jump to reach door handles."
Amy: "Yeah... Hmm..."
Grace: "You know, this could make for a really great amusement park. Make everything giant-sized so we adults can experience the torture adult-sized reality must be for people less than three feet tall."
So then Amy made this drawing as part of a sales pitch to our backer, Tristan:
Giant cookies, counter tops above eye level, chairs you need a step stool to climb up to... And of course funnel cakes and cotton candy, too - essential foods that no good theme park can do without.
I'd also like to point out that giant furniture has made it into the world of high art. In 2003, Robert Thierrien made this really awesome installation piece at the Tate Modern in London. A Google search for "giant table" yields this picture of the piece:
See? Pretty awesome. If giant tables and chairs are worth £125 million in an art museum with no entrance fee, think how much you could charge people to lounge in that giant furniture while eating Dippin' Dots.
Sadly, Tristan isn't sold on the whole Big Baby Land thing, so Amy and I are still looking for funding. Any takers?
he did like the giant cookie idea. so what i'm saying is, we've got a foot in the door. it's only a matter of time and an abundance of google imaging "giant (furniture item)" before he really sees the light.
ReplyDeletep.s. i love funnel cake.
ReplyDeleteYeah. I'm going to need more convincing. Maybe... Maybe if you make me that giant Reese's peanut butter cup so that I can tangibly see what it would be like, maybe then I'd be on board. I'm having trouble visualizing this.
ReplyDeleteyeah, that room at the tate was pretty awesome :)this whole post reminds me of eternal sunshine of the spotless mind when he goes back to childhood memories
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