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smilingformoney · 4 years

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America’s Most Eligible 3 Diamond Scene: Invite Ivy Over

As you turn back, you see Ivy walking away. You: Ivy, wait up! Ivy: No, it’s fine. I’ll just go back to my room. You: Why go back to your room when you can come back out with us? Ivy: You… you mean it? Fiancée: Absolutely. Fiancée: We can order room service and just hang out. Ivy: I suppose I could do that.

You, your fiancée, and Ivy make yourselves comfortable across your bed. After a few moments of silently shifting around, Ivy smiles wryly at you both… You: Ivy, are you alright? Ivy: You don’t need to take pity on me, you know. You: Hey, it’s not pity. There’s no way we were gonna stay and eat at that restaurant after what happened. Ivy: I hope that footage isn’t useable. I’d hate to be portrayed like some desperado. Ivy: Or worse, a jealous fiancée. Fiancée: Omar sending you on a wild-goose chase wasn’t cool, but right now we’ve got other things to worry about. You: Like… what to order for room service! Ivy smiles at you and your fiancée, but it doesn’t quite reach her eyes. Ivy: That’s… The only time I ever got room service was when I won pageants. Ivy: Only winners get dinner.

You: Is that… -What your mom told you?

Ivy: She said I should never be rewarded for a job not done perfectly. You: She had no right to treat you that way.

-Something you still believe?

Ivy: No…? Ivy answers you, but instantly looks away. You: Ivy, I hope you know you’re worthy of something as basic as room service…

Fiancée: Well, tonight we’re changing that. Order away! You dial the front desk of the resort and put in your order. Within minutes, your food arrives at the door and you all start to dig in. You: This is-- Fiancée: Delicious? I know. Ivy: It’s… refreshing. You: What, eating? Ivy: No, being here together. I’m not sued to after-hours ‘hangs’. Fiancée: ‘After hours’? Does Vince have you on a curfew? Ivy: No, but Mama had strict rules for spending times with friends… it’s kind of engrained in my brain. Ivy: While everyone else was at friends’ houses, Mama was making me do pageant run-throughs. Fiancée: Ivy, that’s awful.

You: Whoa… -Everything makes so much sense now.

Ivy: What’s that supposed to mean? You: I can see where you get all your competitive drive from is all. Ivy visibly rolls her eyes.

-How could she do that?

You: Didn’t she realise how much pressure that was on you? Ivy: She always told me the pressure would make me better.

Ivy: She said friendships would only distract me from my goals and opportunities. Ivy: One time she let me go to a friend’s birthday party… but she picked me up before the sleepover. You: Wait. So, you’ve never had a sleepover? Ivy gently shakes her head ‘no’. You: I think we can fix that… Ivy, what do you say to having a sleepover tonight? Ivy: Only if we can play sleepover games. Fiancée: Like ‘truth or dare’? Ivy: Sure… but only if I get to go first. You: Then Ivy… truth or dare? Ivy: Dare!

You: I dare you… -To prank call the front desk!

Ivy: But my reputation! Fiancée: Make up a fake name. You: The whole point of prank calling is that you’re not supposed to be yourself. Ivy: Alright… I think I can do this. Ivy picks up the phone in your room and dials the front desk. She toys with the cord of the phone in anticipation and adopts a faux-tenor voice… Ivy: Yes, hello? Um… Could you tell me what room Seymour is staying in? Ivy: His last name? Butts. And hurry! I need Seymour Butts immediately! Ivy hangs up the phone in a flash the bursts into laughter. Ivy: I get why people do that now! What a rush! You: You’re already a pro prank caller. That’s the oldest joke in the book!

-Skip a step in your skincare routine!

Ivy: Good heavens! Fiancée: You heard them. Ivy: I guess I could skip my second foaming cleanser… Or not sleep with a sheet mask? Ivy: This is too hard. You: That’s why it’s a dare! Ivy: As long as I get my beauty sleep I can go without one thing for a game I suppose.

Ivy giggles, but quickly composes herself. She looks you dead in the eye. Ivy: Jamie’s turn! Truth… or dare?

You: … -Truth.

Ivy: What’s your weirdest turn-on? Fiancée: This I gotta know. You: I don’t think I have-- Fiancée: No, you definitely have one. You: Then what is it? Fiancée: I swear you’re always more into me when I wear really crisp, clean socks. You: Is that why you’re always doing so much laundry? Your fiancée laughs and nods at you. Ivy notes their socks. Ivy: I think that’s one I can actually get behind.

-Dare!

Ivy: I dare you to serenade your fiancée. You: Come on, that one’s easy. Ivy: In pig latin. Fiancée: Es-nay! You: O-hay y-may arling-day… You continue singing in pig latin staring deeply into your fiancée’s eyes, both of you trying hard not to crack up, then finish your aria… You: Y-may ove-laaaay!

You and your fiancée and Ivy go round robin doing truths and dares… Fiancée: There was a full month of high school where I kept accidentally calling my teacher, ‘Dad’. You: At least you didn’t accidentally say ‘I love you’ when leaving class too! Fiancée: …I did. You and Ivy burst into a fit of giggles. Ivy: That’s pretty embarrassing, but still something you can easily recover from. What about the real stuff? You: It’s your turn next, Ivy. You really want to get real? Ivy thinks for a moment then nods. You look at your fiancée, then turn to Ivy and ask her… You: Ivy, truth or dare? Ivy: Hmmm… Truth.

You: Ivy, what’s going on with… -You and Carson?

Ivy: Nothing! Fiancée: Are you sure? You’re bound by the rules of truth or dare to actually tell the truth. Ivy hesitates. She takes a deep breath in and looks to you, then back to your fiancée. Ivy: There… are feelings between us. Ivy: But nothing more! I’m an engaged woman, and I would never do anything to hurt my Vincey. You: Do you think Vince would give you that courtesy? Ivy: I…

-You and Vince?

Ivy: We’re perfectly happy, that’s what’s going on. Fiancée: Are you sure? You’re bound by the rules of truth or dare to actually tell the truth. You: Based on what happened tonight, I don’t think that’s the truth. Ivy: I guess we’re going through a bit of a rough patch. Pre-wedding jitters. You: Ivy… the way Vince treats you is more than just pre-wedding jitters. Ivy: You should know that you can’t judge a relationship by its cover. Vince loves me, I know it. Ivy: Or at least I think I know.

Ivy sighs and a heaviness settles over her face for a brief moment. She meets your gaze with a wan smile. Ivy: I’m feeling rather tired all of a sudden. I think I’ll excuse myself to the couch. You: It wouldn’t be a sleepover without a little sleep. Ivy gracefully rises from the bed and starts toward the couch, but turns back to you and your fiancée. Ivy: Thank you for everything tonight. You two really do make a lovely couple. +50 You: You’re a lot of fun when you’re not trying to steal our dream wedding from us. Ivy: Don’t get used to it. Fiancée: Go get your beauty sleep. You: Goodnight, Ivy. Your fiancée gives you a quick kiss, then turns off the lights. Soon you all drift off to sleep…

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micaramel · 4 years

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Artist: Andrew Norman Wilson

Venue: Ordet, Milan

Exhibition Title: Lavender Town Syndrome

Date: December 4, 2019 – February 1, 2020

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Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

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Videos:

Andrew Norman Wilson, Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome, 16mm-to-HD and HD-to-16mm-to-HD, Colour, Sound, 2020, 13:43 (excerpt 1)

Andrew Norman Wilson, Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome, 16mm-to-HD and HD-to-16mm-to-HD, Colour, Sound, 2020, 13:43 (excerpt 2)

Andrew Norman Wilson, Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome, 16mm-to-HD and HD-to-16mm-to-HD, Colour, Sound, 2020, 13:43 (excerpt 3)

Andrew Norman Wilson, Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome, 16mm-to-HD and HD-to-16mm-to-HD, Colour, Sound, 2020, 13:43 (excerpt)

Andrew Norman Wilson, IDontFeelTheWayImSupposedToFeel, mp4, 2019, 09:11

Images courtesy of the artist and Ordet, Milan. Photos by Nicola Gnesi.

Press Release:

Ordet presents Lavender Town Syndrome, a solo show by Andrew Norman Wilson. The exhibition is centered around Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1, a multichannel video work commissioned by Ordet. In this new work Wilson uses three different imaging technologies—a photographic lens, photorealistic ray tracing animations, and fractal ray-marching animations—to zoom through three constructed environments.

The first section employs a 75mm to 1500mm Canon telephoto lens developed for wildlife cinematography. This uncannily prolonged zoom moves from a cityscape view to details on a single balcony of Bertrand Goldberg’s Marina City, a lotus-shaped oddity of “organic architecture” amidst Chicago’s thoroughly rectangular built environment that has been featured in movies such as I, Robot, Source Code, The Dark Knight, and Transformers 3.

The second section employs 8K photorealistic computer generated materials commonly used in architectural renders, video games, and the motion picture industry. These “physically based rendering” (PBR) materials are sold through the online database Substance Source, in which the surfaces of metals, plastics, rocks, and more are previewed as spherical forms.

The third section was procedurally generated using fractal software developed by the computer engineer Code Parade. Fractal algorithms are also commonly used in the fields of architecture, video games, and motion pictures, from computer-generated fractal surfaces in architectural renders to visual effects in science fiction films such as Inception, Doctor Strange, and Annihilation. Wilson worked with Code Parade to customize his program towards heightened cinematic realism and render what look like infinite synthetic 3d landscapes constructed for something other than the human body.

Also included in the show is an exact replica of a papier-mâché Pikachu found in a photograph posted to Reddit in 2013 by a user who claimed it was made by their little sister. The image has since become a meme with captions like “Expectations/Reality” and “Kill me.” Another replica is also featured in the commissioned video, along with other translations of memes.

In the next room, a video loop based on the first eight seconds of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special from 1965 is installed on a 2002 iMac G4. In contrast to the repetitive zooming of the new commission, this video pans back and forth over a hand drawn animation sequence based on the narrative world of Charles M. Schulz’s newspaper comic strip Peanuts. The scene is accompanied by the original source sound of Vince Guaraldi’s jazz score—here reduced to the first two bars.

These works all form the backstory of an ongoing project: a metafictional documentary about a group of artists who eventually drop out of the contemporary art world to pursue more socially productive design projects. In making these works, Wilson is interested in the role that technology plays in amplifying the impact of “truthiness” over truth. As sound, images, objects, computation, and bodies interrelate, they offer possibilities for intermedial imprints that provoke surprising new effects and complicated meanings.

In titling the show Lavender Town Syndrome, Wilson summons a conspiracy theory in which more than 200 Japanese children were driven to suicide by a particular board in the game Pokémon Red and Green for Game Boy. Many others suffered serious migraines or nosebleeds, or turned violent when their parents tried to take the game away. Some cried until they started vomiting. These incidents were later determined to have been caused by the unsettling background music in Lavender Town, which, aside from containing a high tone undetectable to adult ears, was also an early experiment in binaural beats which are said to affect human behavior by syncing with listeners’ brainwaves.

Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1 was produced through the leading support of Seven Gravity Collection and with additional support from DOCUMENT Chicago and SculptureCenter, New York.

Andrew Norman Wilson (1983) is an artist and curator based between Europe and the United States. Recent exhibitions include Hirngespenster at the Kunstverein Braunschweig in 2019 (solo), Picture Industry at Luma Arles in 2018, Dreamlands at the Whitney Museum in 2017, and the Gwangju Biennial in 2016.

Thanks to Giò Marconi, Zero…, and Clima.

Link: Andrew Norman Wilson at Ordet

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