0:00:07.415,0:00:12.342 [RACKSTRAW DOWNES: TEXAS HILLS] 0:00:15.465,0:00:17.515 People are very hypocritical, you know-- 0:00:17.515,0:00:19.046 they like cosmetics. 0:00:19.495,0:00:21.176 If the place is all cleaned up, 0:00:21.176,0:00:23.677 and there's no sign of any functionalism going on here, 0:00:23.677,0:00:24.838 that's what they like. 0:00:24.968,0:00:29.077 They don't want to see the line that brings power to their refrigerator, 0:00:29.077,0:00:32.340 even though they get up in the morning and drink orange juice out of it. 0:00:32.340,0:00:33.477 [LAUGHS] 0:00:35.258,0:00:40.376 And my job is to provoke this hypocrisy 0:00:40.376,0:00:41.922 and tease this hypocrisy 0:00:41.922,0:00:45.879 and try to get some sense into their heads. [LAUGHS] 0:00:53.556,0:00:57.321 I'm in interested in landscape where people have acted upon it. 0:00:57.321,0:00:59.614 I grew up in a landscape like that. 0:00:59.614,0:01:01.349 England is very lived upon. 0:01:01.766,0:01:03.920 All of Europe really is, you know. 0:01:03.920,0:01:07.122 George Orwell said, "When you take a step somewhere in Europe, 0:01:07.122,0:01:09.490 you're probably treading on ten dead people." 0:01:09.490,0:01:10.820 [LAUGHS] 0:01:10.820,0:01:12.691 And it is like that! 0:01:12.828,0:01:14.892 And, I think that's okay. 0:01:15.019,0:01:21.953 The American romance with the untouched landscape is sort of foreign to me-- 0:01:21.953,0:01:25.122 it's never exactly hit me, particularly. 0:01:25.261,0:01:28.716 And I like the landscape that has been modified--that's okay. 0:01:28.716,0:01:29.952 People aren't so bad. 0:01:29.952,0:01:31.849 They go in there and do these things, 0:01:31.849,0:01:34.414 and some of the things are rather wonderful, 0:01:34.704,0:01:37.524 and this is one of those places to me. 0:01:41.651,0:01:43.545 It's not in the middle of nowhere, 0:01:43.545,0:01:46.354 it's right here on the edge of town. [LAUGHS] 0:01:46.354,0:01:49.060 And you can see little bits of the town from here. 0:01:49.060,0:01:52.486 There's something funny about that juxtaposition that I like very much. 0:01:52.486,0:01:54.044 I find it very touching. 0:01:54.044,0:01:56.553 I also love the proximity of these towers. 0:01:56.553,0:01:58.015 The towers are enigmatic. 0:01:58.015,0:02:01.124 That white tower up there is such a wacky shape, 0:02:01.124,0:02:02.920 popping out of that mound. 0:02:02.920,0:02:06.416 And the cell tower is wonderful, too. 0:02:06.416,0:02:09.352 It's just so extraordinarily tall, 0:02:09.352,0:02:12.552 and those immense cables that hold it up, you know. 0:02:12.753,0:02:14.814 These things appeal to me. 0:02:17.153,0:02:23.490 And then I love the fact that the kids ride around on here in their ATVs. 0:02:24.020,0:02:27.415 The thought of somebody riding around on one of these machines like this, 0:02:27.415,0:02:31.413 with absolutely no rules and laws governing them, 0:02:31.413,0:02:32.721 and so forth and so on. 0:02:32.721,0:02:34.446 I think it's very wonderful. 0:02:34.446,0:02:40.664 I think it's a lovely bit of youth having its own good time, in its own way. 0:02:40.754,0:02:44.784 Taking the most dramatic little paths up there 0:02:44.784,0:02:46.382 so they'd be right on the crest-- 0:02:46.382,0:02:49.815 always the path goes to the crest of the hill. 0:02:49.952,0:02:53.195 And I just find that all very delightful. 0:02:53.195,0:02:54.180 I like it.