theme parks are vacation bastions healthy family, where you can get the thrill on the rides, eat a lot of fried foods, and go out with your favorite, bright colors, brand characters. Maybe you love these places and good memories of being a child there, or bring your kids there.
Or maybe you were just a little creeped out by them.
Drawing on all the ways an amusement park can be scary, famous British street artist Banksy created and social commentator Dismaland, described on its website as "the most disappointing new tourist attraction in the UK."
Are we still having fun?
Welcome Dismaland where the staff does not care about you and everything is embedded in the palpable sadness about bright colors.
Getty / Matthew Horwood
Christopher Jobson to Colossal
Actually Dismaland is less a actual theme park and a huge art installation, outdoor, featuring the work of over 50 artists from around the world, organized by Banksy, as well as the founder Colossal Christopher Jobson, who also took the most of the photos you see here.
Christopher Jobson to Colossal
Designed as a dilapidated, scary station seaside, Dismaland is full of the favorite themes of Banksy, such as anti-consumerism, criticism of celebrity culture, ecology, oppression and fun stuff. Instead of a park "attraction", he called a park "of bemusement."
From the official brochure :.
"Bring the whole family to come and enjoy the latest addition to our surplus chronic leisure - a park of bemusement A theme park which is [sic] great theme is the theme parks should have more themes ...
"This event contains adult themes, painful images, prolonged use of strobe lights, smoke effects and swearing. The following are strictly prohibited knives, spray cans, illicit drugs, and lawyers of the company Walt Disney "
The race to the bottom, the filthy place looking perfectly. frightening, and takes a subversive snarky look at the relentless happy cartoon theme parks.
Christopher Jobson to Colossal
It also addresses serious themes.
Christopher Jobson to Colossal
Christopher Jobson to Colossal
characteristics-not-park to win games like that where the object is to hit on an anvil with a ping ball tennis, a Ferris wheel and a mini golf course, and several employees whose attitudes and morose absurd action makes the environment even more surreal. Think occupy protesters who occupy different places at random and pink acquired staff who go out of their way to be no informative. There is also a palpation security check rather uncomfortable at the entrance.
Christopher Jobson to Colossal
Christopher Jobson to Colossal
And then there is this :.
a scenic
Instagram / Colossal
Christopher Jobson to Colossal
If you squint, it's almost magical!
Christopher Jobson to Colossal
If it looks not for a perfect family vacation, I do not know this fact.
Vimeo / Alex Jefferis
(via Colossal)
Dismaland is open until September 27, 2015, and you can try to buy tickets on the site, but good luck with that. There are also several (real) music events being held. If you are in the U.K. and feel a little too happy, see Dismaland.
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