Ladies & Gents: The Final Sad Death Rattle of U.S. Indie Rock - Bon Ivor's Horrifying Boutique Indie Rock Hotel

http://blog.thecurrent.org/2015/11/heres-what-justin-vernons-boutique-hotel-in-eau-claire-will-look-like/

hey dudes in the Feelies....there's no way y'all could have known it would turn out like this don't feel bad.

http://publicradio2.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/files/2015/11/Oxbow-Hotel-Eau-Claire-1-600x350.jpg

already haunted by unthreatening ghosts too

http://www.hotelpelirocco.co.uk/

Just sayin..

What is this... A hotel for ghosts?!

ghost moose

http://publicradio2.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/files/2015/11/Oxbow-Hotel-Eau-Claire-4.jpg

a moose as ghostly as bon iver's haunting falsetto

the speed with which bon iver went from "hushed" "introspective" "nice" "sensitive" guy "indie" to whiskey bros shill and hotel impresario is pretty amazing, it's like if iron and wine became the dos equis spokesman after his calexico collab.

They will all become silhouettes in time for the opening ceremony.

bon iver really is terrible.
but hey a hotel.

lol it has like an REI in it

It gets even better: every room will have its own record player, and guests will be able to borrow albums from a vinyl library in the lobby.

'it gets even better'

ghost vinyl

Bon Ivor's Beautiful Dark Twisted Ghost Boutique

Not shown: guests sitting on the lobby couch sucking on robotic penises. Sorry, vape pens

The hotel will offer guest an array of artisanal, locally sourced vape juice hand selecte by our in-house vapiere.

bon ivape

I keep thinking that moose is some weird contorted ghost figure suspended by its legs.

Also, is there a giant vagina behind the front desk?

upgrade to the platinum snowflake package and Bon Iver will personally tuck you in and sing you a lullaby!

American Horror Story: Eau Claire

Also, is there a giant vagina behind the front desk?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, November 13, 2015 4:19 PM

i think that's a blown-up rorschach test. hmmm, josh, tell me about your mother...

She had a vagina, I know that much.

Artist's rendering of seasonal maze:

http://www.mstrmnd.com/files/PDVD_177.jpg

it's just a tree, dudes. a sexy sexy tree. (which is what all of bon iver's songs are about, have you even listened to bon iver)

I wouldn't be surprised if all his music was about sexy treams. Sexy, lonely trees.

http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/log-lady-story.jpg
Swoon.

To be fair there are no good places to stay in Eau Claire

beginning of next bon iver LP
haunting falsetto:
"to be fairrrrrrr / there are no good places to stay in Eau Clairrrrrrrre /
so i started a ghost hotel / sexy trees / sexy treeeeeeeees"

i need to process this but for some reason this does not make me mad

i think willie nelson owns a golf course somewhere?

one of the b-52s has a b&b? i think?

Kate Pierson has a B&B, I would love to stay there

I mean come on

http://www.lazymeadow.com/

yeah i mean taking a blighted building in downtown and making it a place to listen to jazz and shit doesn't sound horrible. those electronic DJ dudes from DC do this all the time. the problem is that they tend to attract the worst clientele ever.

Obscure and amazing country 78s from the 70s?

haha or the 60's, good catch

i'm not mad about this in particular, just think bon iver is lame! that is all.

“We want to make a place in Eau Claire where our rich tradition of jazz can meet with other types...

Wait, whose rich tradition of jazz? Eau Claire's?!?!

no it's totally lame in practice xp

i've heard that the touristy areas of WI kind of have a jazz tradition? as an outpost of chicago. kind of like NYC guys playing at resorts in the catskills or w/e

lol why do i keep sticking up for this shit

i think the university is supposed to have a good jazz program but idk.

i'm sure it's going to be a real mecca of local culture and not at all some wisconsin ace hotel bullshit

many parts of this are silly, but once again props to him for putting his money back into his hometown and not holing up in an L.A. mansion or whatever.

hopefully he uses those images for his next album cover

http://publicradio2.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/files/2015/11/Oxbow-Hotel-Eau-Claire-3-738x430.jpg

so. how did you die?

yeah i mean it looks lame and terrible but if i did come into money i guess i'd probably want to sink it into my hometown. i fantasize a lot about buildings i'd build if i could. none of them are boutique hotels but maybe he has better financial advice than i do.

btw the "ghost" effect is actually a knock-on of the same thing: he's hired a small architecture firm based in minneapolis. their website's "team" page is seven smiling, non-hipster white people faces and a dog named otis, and they have the kind of work that small firms have - some interiors, some retail/restaurant stuff, and a handful of houses where they obviously got to stretch a little and do the kind of design the principals actually really love. this all sounds kind of mocking so i should be clear that i actually admire firms like this for staying in business and, i suspect, paying their small team well and trying their best to do good work with clients who may not "get" all the cool stuff the designers learned about in school. who knows. i spend a lot of time railing against architecture's tendency to valorize only the "star" firms (which rely on unpaid intern labor etc.), which leaves new graduates thinking there is no work in minneapolis, or eau claire. firms like this are actually the real backbone of the profession for better or worse.

and, firms like this use sketchup to do 3d modelling because it's fast, it's cheap, the work is never going to require complex curvature or wildly non-standard details and components, and clients can understand the images that come out of it. for the finishing touches, they have photoshop, or maybe photoshop elements, and so they use that to populate their renderings with people. in order to not have the people block the view, and to massage any rough edges of the pasted-in people, they fiddle with translucency. it's how these things almost always look. in another thread i would be making fun of this look, since i used to do these too and feel like i had a better handle on my sketchup/PS technique, but here, oddly, amidst the frou-frou boutiqueyness of the project itself, i kind of want to label this style of firm, and this style of rendering, as things which are boring but good.

Cheap Trick should open up a hotel in Rockford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca6xVXKdEjk

Wonder how lucrative this will be compared to Jack White's hipster gas station / qwik e mart in Detroit

He really missed the opportunity to put a lot of exposed piping in the walls and ceilings here.

I mean come on

http://www.lazymeadow.com/

― Οὖτις, Friday, November 13, 2015 5:31 PM (1 hour ago)

Came here to mention Kate's place and how I've always wanted to stay there.

They could collab? Hotel Eau Planet Claire?

Anyway, Eau Claire looks basically like Panera with a Moosehead and some liquor.

there's a club in Eau Claire named The Grand Illusion after the Styx song

https://www.facebook.com/TheGrandIllusionEauClaire/

#KeepEauClaireWeird

"What is this... A hotel for ghosts?!"

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969

Also, is there a giant vagina behind the front desk?

Bon Iver is going to check you in?

Welcome to the Hotel Eau Claire
What a lovely place
Such an efficient use of space

those chairs are very ugly

I will say that Eaux Claires this summer was a shit-ton of fun and that it probably would have been more comfortable in this ugly hotel rather than in the UW-Eau Claire dorms

my memories of eau claire are exactly two:

when i was a kid my brother and i would go with our grandparents on a fishing trip up to ely minnesota and we'd stop for an overnight in eau claire. it was always a saturday night and every sunday morning we'd have to check out of the hotel early so we could find a church to crash for services. my grandmother never missed them. one year we had trouble locating the church we'd planned on going to, so we drove around and around until we found one and much to my relief there was only ten minutes left in services, which was enough for my grandmother. she just wanted to get the communion cracker i guess.

my other memory is going to a store there and buying cassette tapes of 'somewhere in time' and 'seventh son of a seventh son' by iron maiden.

ha, well done hunangarage

I don't know if it's just the effect of cheesy renderings, but it doesn't look much hipper than the suburban ct business traveler hotel I stayed in for my brother's wedding

BOOtique hotel

open mike breakfast buffet sounds good

"I'm sorry sir, we don't have your name in our system. When did you make your reservation?"
"Forever ago......."

i don't think i ever listened to that forever ago album

i'm holding out for the executive suite edition tbh

http://www.hotelvillaangela.com/taormina-en/

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