Minecraft Pyramid
YouTuber Bubbaflubba built Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid in just over five days … in Minecraft. The game’s creative mode allows players to build anything, and Bubbaflubba has built the White House, the Disneyland Castle, and a Las Vegas hotel and casino.
It’s pretty clear Bubbaflubba ain’t from ’round here, though. In the YouTube video of the Pyramid build, he said, “It’s just so funny. I don’t know how they got the idea to build a pyramid into a shop like this.” Neither do we, Bubbaflubba.
‘NIMBY Fear’
Smoke still rises from a Facebook dumpster fire lit more than two weeks ago by Jason Jackson, a principal at brg3s architects, on the Make Memphis! group page.
Jackson said there’s “NIMBY fear pushing for preservation and the creation of ‘Landmarks Districts.'” Such sites “can perpetuate a divisive form of nostalgia that supports and validates racism and exclusion.” He pointed to such a designation underway now for the Vollintine-Evergreen neighborhood.
The city’s preservationists arrived with strong words of their own. Gordon Alexander, president of the Midtown Action Coalition, wrote, “Delivering a manifesto basically calling neighborhood associations and activist organizations trying to preserve the character of Midtown as Neanderthals who are ‘reinforcing structural racism’ is way over the top.”