Barbe goes for comic-strip gaudy: lurid colours, overblown angles, a cartoonishly decrepit hotel stuffed with kitsch trinkets.
"The train becomes this vehicle for light, but the light is sensitive to its surroundings," said Aitken, sitting over a busy breakfast meeting at the gorgeous La Posada Hotel in Winslow, a 1929 railway hotel stuffed with art by Ed Ruscha, Joe Goode, Tina Mion and others.
People can analyse things around the hotel and stuff but what's important is when you train, you train hard, and when you play, you play as a group.
I mean that they fly you to Belgium or Australia or whatever and put you in a hotel and stuff – it's a wonderful surprise, that you get to go and see it in different versions.
I'm a little disappointed that it's mainly going to be doing grunt work like hotel concierge stuff and parlor tricks until it really gets a big roll-out, but I firmly believe that once a few people get their hands on these things, they're going to want them everywhere.
The salon was located in a part of the Gold Coast that locals call the "Viagra Triangle" for its abundance of wealthy old men and the fake-breasted women they pay to accompany them to nightly dinners and, presumably, freaky hotel butt stuff.
One of the hotel's stuffed mascots (ours was "Marvin, business citizen") sits in the single chair.
"There's going to be nothing but Wal-Marts, Kmarts, big business and hotels and stuff.
Last year at this time, his own hotel was stuffed with dignitaries.
