This game-ified wonder.land (pronounced wonder-dot-land) is a visual triumph, spectacular on a giant screen at the rear of the stage, while flesh and blood characters move about in the grim foreground of meatspace, rendered in ugly monochrome.
But the circus that has surrounded him in the troublesome last year of his life has rendered his death ugly as well, culminating in a bizarre message posted online this week, purportedly written by Guru himself from beyond the grave.
Other artists search for beauty in decay, rendering sad or ugly subject matter with polish and finesse.
Then there's his more mainstream stuff: casting Brad Pitt as a paranoid cop in 12 Monkeys; rendering Johnny Depp impossibly ugly in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ; transforming Jeff Bridges into a heroin wrecked, decomposing corpse in Tideland.
Cyril Chantler, who was asked by the British government four months ago to investigate whether people would smoke less if cigarettes were sold in ugly, nearly identical packs, rendered his verdict on Thursday.
It's all here — the good, the bad and the ugly of Teddy Atlas, often rendered in a crude but convincing street language, captured so faithfully and so forcefully by his collaborator, Peter Alson.
More than that could hardly be gleaned from this evidence, for the aggressive amplification, even as it gradually toned down, rendered the sound of her instrument ugly and percussive.
It created quite a painterly, impressionistic structure, and rendered parts of what was often an ugly image very beautiful.
But rushing causes errors, and the smallest errors can render your project hideously ugly at best and dangerous at worst.
