URGENT: PayPal has FROZEN the funding for the 2010 Temple!

Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 2:16 pm

http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2010/08/11 ... mple-funds

MisaBlue · Post by **MisaBlue** » Thu Aug 12, 2010 4:51 pm

http://www.fastcompany.com/1680570/burn ... eat-paypal

Elorrum · Post by **Elorrum** » Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:50 pm

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:07 pm

Nice...

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:49 pm

Perhaps worth remembering these folks that took up the slack.

https://www.wepay.com/

I'm sure not going to forget this.

I'm surprized paypal care about the publicity.
They already have a huge boycott going because of their anti-2nd Amendment policies.

I'd love to have the money they are driving away every day.
Along with ebay's anti-american policies, they have succeeded in creating operational businesses that could replace both of them.

dj_john69 · Post by **dj_john69** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:55 pm

Am i the only person on here that think that this years temple is fucking UGLY ??? WAY to much money on a wood ship wreck. Hopefully, it looks better in person.

SilverOrange · Post by **SilverOrange** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 5:54 am

dj_john69 wrote:Am i the only person on here that think that this years temple is fucking UGLY ??? WAY to much money on a wood ship wreck. Hopefully, it looks better in person.

Right there with you.

Token · Post by **Token** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:32 am

But it's 180 grand ugly! That's gotta count for something.

C.f.M. · Post by **C.f.M.** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:39 am

Token wrote:But it's 180 grand ugly! That's gotta count for something.

Yeah, that makes it "art."

capjbadger · Post by **capjbadger** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:05 pm

*goes to look at pics on site*
WTF? Umm... I'll reserve judgement for when I see it in person, but I'm a bit doubtful right now.

-Badger

Token · Post by **Token** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:15 pm

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:20 pm

im sorta stuck on the fence too, it almost seems dated, like the facades of early eighties department stores with diagonal wood boards, half way between rustic and bauhaus.

wtf did i just type?

it must be the HGTV in the background acting as sub-conscious noise.

anyway, i wasnt sold on Der Waffle until i saw the motherfucker burn.

loved the waffle, i only wish someone had had the forethought to order 50,000 gallons of ice cream and a helicopter to take it over and dump it right on top, mid burn...

then hand out spoons.

those crazy belgiques....

MistressSybs · Post by **MistressSybs** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:38 pm

I'm glad we're not the only people who feel that way too. we'll just have to see what we see... I loved last years!

C.f.M. · Post by **C.f.M.** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 1:51 pm

I don't know if anything could ever top last year's...that was just amazing. The overall look, the intricacy...it was beautiful.

This year's...not so much. Looks like a lean-to.

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 2:55 pm

dj_john69 wrote:Am i the only person on here that think that this years temple is fucking UGLY ??? WAY to much money on a wood ship wreck. Hopefully, it looks better in person.

+100.

Its excess, it's schlepp... it is apparently past the end of the temples worthy of the name, and looks like a discount house special (at least from the drawings) that is just fracking overblown and, sorry, ugly.

If it's the temple of ugly, then it wins first prize. If it's the temple of unimpressive overgrown schlock, again blue ribbion. But graceful? Memorializing? Beautiful? Hell, it looks like the plywood maze under the man a few years ago.

I don't know what it's supposed to be a temple of, but from this distance it looks like its only purpose is to out-lumber the Uchronica (aka belgian waffle) to make a big fucking bonfire and not much else. I hope the drawings are so far off it doesn't look as bad as it makes it out to be...

I'm afraid I may miss that burn. Sorry, unless something is radically different than what I saw, well... IMO Yeech.

Or am I not expressing myself well?

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:14 pm

Yeah, it looks like Uchronia with walls.

I think what has happened with the temples since David Best stepped aside is what has happened to a lot of projects.

Maybe I should build The Temple Of Popcorn and make it look like a big wooden grandstand ...

It is sort of like deciding to be a comedian. You can't just give someone a script and put them on a stage and have them try to be funny. Some people are funny without really trying. It just comes naturally. It is almost like the temple crew is trying to "force it" a little. It doesn't look like it is coming naturally.

This year's design looks like it gives a lot of space for people to write on, as if that was a major design criterion. But there doesn't seem to be much artistic catharsis there for me in what looks like a bunch of triangular Uchronias built out of plywood. 2004 is still my favorite.

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:20 pm

geekster wrote:Yeah, it looks like Uchronia with walls...

I think what has happened with the temples since David Best stepped aside is what has happened to a lot of projects.

... It is almost like the temple crew is trying to "force it" a little. It doesn't look like it is coming naturally.

This year's design looks like it gives a lot of space for people to write on, as if that was a major design criterion. But there doesn't seem to be much artistic catharsis there for me in what looks like a bunch of triangular Uchronias built out of plywood. 2004 is still my favorite.

+110!

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:36 pm

2004 is still my favorite.

yes.

hands down, hands up, whatever.

Last years Burned very Gracefully, almost fluid, like a water tap of fire spilling upwards. I was very impressed with the WAY it burned..

it was simple, and elegant.

2007 was too, but the motherfucker took too goddamn long to burn...i took a nap half way through.