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Hi mad,
The positions on the map are more or less indicated in some scenes, and other locations were inferred from the songs. For example, there's a boxing match between Trinity Moses and Alaska Wolf Joe, so I put a boxing gym on my map.
The local economy revolves around drinking whiskey, prostitution, and gambling, so I thought there should be some bars. I added one brothel because Mahagonny is a bit crooked, and I thought it would be very frustrating to have one brothel with rather high fees, which is vaguely hinted at in "Havanna Lied."
I took some license with the Greyhound Bus Station and Convention Center, which are pretty contemporary allusions. Convention centers always seem really seedy and like the perfect metaphor for capitalism/development/imperialism/business tourism. Maybe I'm the only person with these prejudices: I could elaborate, but don't want to get too wind-baggy on my first task. Every town in the south has a Greyhound, and I liked the contrast of wealth and desperation.
I think you bring up some good points about it not being a very functional map. I was a bit in between, and just went for it rather than having a super clear idea. I used to travel a lot more; so I was inspired by really awful free tourist maps that you get at the airport, the kind that have giant icons for malls, where to get private tour buses, and where the Ripley's Believe It or Not! is, but don't give you any helpful information.
I also like the idea of there being an unreliable map for Mahagonny, since it's a generally unreliable sort of place. There have been a few revivals of the opera in Europe recently. A lot of the printed material compares the town with Miami, but to me it seems more like an alternate version of Biloxi or Louisville than a larger city, which in turn influenced the size of my map.
Cheers,
ar
I think that your admirer must've been a Herman Hesse fan, or total lit nerd, and trying to get to know you in a way so kinda over-thought that it probably came across as insulting.
Also, I have a friend who smokes quite a bit and this seems almost like something he'd do, but his name's not Daniel.
Thanks dude.
I apologize for the shooting gallery ambiance of the photos.