Concrete jungle where wet dreams are made of...

Spending all my waking hours on the internets gives me unlimited golden nuggets of happiness like the Black and Yellow African Remix and inspires me in fantastic ways like the eternal sunshine of my blackened mind - the Selleck Waterfall Sandwich.  It never gets old. 

In this case it's Edward James.  Millionaire vintage hottie, surrealist art patron, bisexual, eccentric freak and general badass.  You can google it.  [MS sidebar: Awww... that was my first Twilight reference in awhile.  Do you miss them?  Sometimes, I do...]  So Mr. James decides to build a concrete sculpture garden on top of the Sierrra Madre Mountains in Mexico because DUH why wouldn't you want to do that?!  It's his own little freaky Eden called Las Pozas in Xilitla that he started building in 1945.

Las Pozas means "the pools" (HOLLLA!!  I speak foreign!) and here's our little toga-wearing freak hanging out by a kinda gross looking pool shaped like an eye.  I'm guessing chlorine was hard to come by up there.  You get an A for effort though Eddie.

Here's the carpenter's workshop where all the magic happens.  Construction went on for decades and consisted of houses, sculptures, animal sanctuaries, gardens and other building-y things.

Workin it next to the "Bamboo Palace."

Built for his hundreds of birds...

"Cornucopia forms on Gothic construction"

"House of Don Eduardo"

muy caliente

Here's where the fun freak part comes in.  Eddie liked for his workers to work naked because, um... he liked it.  I entertained this idea for my kitchen for all of about two seconds until I remembered what my electrician looks like and then thought about him trying to clean off the sheetrock-dust-mixed-with-duck-butter from his nether regions and then I threw up in my mouth a little bit.  But I guess when you're a millionaire you can afford to hire someone to continually hose off your workers to try and cut down on the sheetrock-induced ball paste.  I don't think my neighbors would understand.

Here is Mr. James showing you how the alter of love works, I guess.  Try not to be seduced by the jungle bedroom eyes.  This is what your wet dreams will probably be about tonight.

And here he is being carried around by his workers after an "accident."  Riiiight... *wink, wink*  My question is: why are they wearing clothes?  And when are MY contractors going to start carrying me around like the redneck Cleopatra/Edward James Madame that I am??

"Stairway to the Sky"

Just think of all the awesome shit I could build out in the middle of the jungle if I was richer and more eccentric and even remotely talented!!

I like that it all looks like some alien hippies landed in the middle of the jungle.  [Nerd tangent ahead - take cover!]  Or it's like the set of a Star Trek: TNG episode where the crew visits a foreign planet where everything looks exactly the same as Earth except their buildings are just slightly weirder and they wear more early 90's makeup.  And everyone speaks non-accented English too.

"Flying Buttresses, Las Pozas style"

alternate view of "Stairway to the Sky"

The door on the left is the entrance to Edward's personal living quarters which is where you go after you've been seduced by the jungle bedroom eyes.

"Columns and Bromeliad sculpture in 'House of Don Eduardo'"

"Cinema structure with double staircase"

"House of Plants"

See?  Early 90's makeup colors.

the awesome "Little yellow column at mouth of artificial cave"

Ok, well these colors are a lot closer to the citron and jewel tones I am liking lately.  Carry on then, Eduardo.

"Wall with plump pillars and corn motifs"

In cliched blogger terms: I swoon for those columns.

"House of Peristyles"

All of this kinda reminds me of the largest treehouse in the world I went to visit for my birfday last year!   I need to start some sort of yearly rogue architectural road trip of sorts.  All are welcome!  Especially millionaire freaks who will fund our adventures!  In the meantime go to Mondo Blogo for even more jungle fabulosity about Mr. James. 

Awww... he's so cute I almost forgot about that picture of him naked with only jungle leaves hiding his huevos.