Month: August 2016

The Shining: Bathrooms Part 3c

Ballroom Bathroom 23

*Hello Clicky… What, no ‘Last time at the LoL…‘ today?*

The bank is now open

*Okay. Let’s do it!*

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One of the reasons I find ‘The Shining Forwards/\Backwards’ so fascinating is the synchronizing of images…

Jack rolls ball to Danny

 

… words with images…

Ullman warns Jack

… and sound.

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Early on in the Ballroom Bathroom scene, Jack accuses Grady of a heinous crime…

Ballroom Bathroom 12

And later in the scene we get to see it, so let’s continue…

Ballroom Bathroom 24

… Danny is in the background as both Grady and Jack talk about him…

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Danny covers his eyes at Grady’s suggestion…

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Grady’s daughters appear as he starts to talk of them…

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Jack’s accusation is confirmed by Grady’s idea of ‘correcting’…

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Jack should ‘correct’ Danny as Grady did with his girls. Jack gets it…

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I don't like the colour

*Oh sorry, Clicky… I had to remove some of the colour to make the gifs a manageable size…*

Are you my mummy

*/squints… No, ‘mummy’ is the focus of The Shining: Bathrooms Part 4… Soon, Clicky. Have a Song…*

The Shining: Bathrooms Part 3b

LAST TIME

Jack throws Grady’s wiping cloth at the figure of Danny, who’s retreating from the bedroom…

Ballroom Bathroom 13

And we move into the hotel lobby, where the second of three scenes runs silently backwards as the ballroom bathroom scene continues forwards.

Outside a winter storm rages, as Wendy and Danny watch a movie on the lobby telly, ‘Summer of 42‘. A reminder…

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*Ah… Wendy and 42 also appeared in the Boulder Bathroom. Cheers Clicky!*

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Ballroom Bathroom 16

Bathroom Ballroom 17

Bathroom Ballroom 18

Bathroom Bathroom 19

Ballroom Bathroom 20

Ballroom Bathroom 21

Ballroom Bathroom 22

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The Shining: Bathrooms Part 3c will be along tomorrow, Dear Reader. In the meantime… Have a Song.

 

 

 

 

 

The Shining: Bathrooms Part 3a

Enormous chair

The scene with Jack and Grady in the bathroom is nearly 6 minutes long…

*Way too many gifs, Clicky… I’m gonna have to be cannier about how how I present this…*

Dolphin's hug

*… and careful with the hugging, sweetie*

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Okay, let’s familiarize ourselves with the scene in question.

Unlike, the bathroom scenes in Part 1 and Part 2, the Ballroom Bathroom scene (on the descent from the ‘shining’ peak, at the centre of the Forwards/\Backwards version) has dialogue in both directions. And it spans not one but three scenes on the ascent. But which ones?

movie diagram ascent Ballroom Bathroom

To start with, when Jack and Grady first enter the bathroom…

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… the corresponding scene is of Jack talking to Danny in the bedroom.

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Jack questions Grady…

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… and at the same time Danny questions Jack.

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Whilst Lloyd continues wiping at Danny’s face…

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… Danny gives his father a question/suggestion.

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Derren Brown sends John Watson to sleep

*Clicky, WTF?!*

*Have a Song? Oh okay then… I guess this post is big enough*

Dear Reader, Part 3b of The Shining: Bathrooms will follow.

/Burger Burp… S’cuse Me

Today is ‘National Burger Day‘

https://youtu.be/-aVhN-foilA?t=2m37s

*Start at 2.37? /rolls eyes… Oh Clicky, I’m working on The Shining Bathrooms Part 3, but they’re big gifs, difficult to wrap…*

tape eye

*Yes, I know you’re handy with the sellotape…*

tape face

*A little too handy sometimes… /shakes head… Look, Clicky, can we just get on with the post? It’s been another hot day and I’m still sweating buckets here*

Etymology Online gives us…

burger (n.)1939, American English, shortened from hamburger (q.v.).

burgher (n.)1560s, “freeman of a burgh,” from Middle Dutch burgher or German Bürger, from Middle High German burger, from Old High German burgari“inhabitant of a fortress,” from burg “fortress, citadel” (see borough). Burgh, as a native variant of borough, persists in Scottish English (as in Edinburgh).

 

Yesterday evening, whilst Thoughtful Man listened to Fulham beat Borough in the FA Cup, I got into conversation with Hugo, who’d sent me an article about the discovery of a planet orbiting neighbouring star, Proxima Centuri.

‘”A planet around even a wimpy star like Proxima Centauri is going to be more than a billion times fainter than the star itself. So, what you do is block out the light from the star using a special device and that allows you then to go deeper into the star’s surroundings,” explained Cambridge University’s Prof Gerry Gilmore.’

Did the conversation continue along a scientific line, with wonderment at this discovery? Dear Reader, it did not.

Hugo and Roob talk Wimpy burgers
CLICKY: Try eight…

*Eight in the area, Clicky, but I’ve only been to 3*

Then, Red Universe Frank put up a new post at MEROVEE containing a burger reference…

Merovee Burger

The planet Mercury takes 88 Earth days to go around the Sun and according to Back to the Future, 88mph is the speed that makes time travel possible…

BTTF 88mph

hydrargyrum (n.)“mercury, quicksilver,” 1560s, from Latin hydrargyrus, from Greek hydrargyros “quicksilver” (as prepared artificially from cinnabar ore; native quicksilver was argyros khytos “fused silver”), from hydr-, stem of hydor “water” (see water (n.1)) + argyros “silver” (see argent). Hence the chemical abbreviation Hg for the element mercury.

Of course,  ‘argent’ is a ‘Shining‘ word 😉

joanna lumley

No.8 ‘The Corridor’ by Toby Dye

Dye pays homage to Kubrick in this installation, applying his pioneering camera and narrative techniques. Each of the four endlessly looping films are set in the same location be feature a different character inspired by Kubrick’s filmography.

UNKLE’s ‘Lonely Soul’ (ft Richard Ashcroft) accompanies Toby Dye’s moving picture. This was the original piece of music that James sent to Stanley Kubrick for the music video that never was. The track features on UNKLE’s critically acclaimed debut album Psyence Fiction.

burger breathing

*Agreed, Clicky… /wipes brow… talk about Mercury rising… a breeze would be nice. Back to the gifs tomorrow… Song for now?*

The Shining: Bathrooms Part 2

LAST TIME

I should probably explain, for those that haven’t seen ‘The Shining Forwards and Backwards’ that there is a convergence point in the film, where ‘Forwards’ meets ‘Backwards’…

*Right at the centre of the film, Dick in Florida shines beneath a black goddess. Thanks, Clicky! ❤ *

The film is mostly set at the Overlook Hotel, a mountain resort, therefore the centre point of the film, the convergence, could be considered a peak. All the action leading up to that point could be considered as ascending a mountain, and the action after that point as making the descent.

The Boulder bathroom scene when Danny talks to Tony occurs in the first part of the movie (ascent). The other three bathroom scenes occur in the second part of the movie (descent)…

movie diagram showing bathroom scenes

*Brilliant! A rough sketch to demonstrate what I mean, Clicky. Thanks!*

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Room 237 Bathroom 

Let’s just remind ourselves of the scene with accompanying soundtrack…

That’s the ‘Forwards’ action. Silently running backwards is the scene when Jack first meets Lloyd in the Ballroom and tastes his first drink in a long time…

The Forward/\Backwards scene starts with the bathroom door being pushed open. Think ‘Wizard of Oz‘ reveal…

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The shower curtain pulls back, mimicking the action of the door. He ‘tastes’ the naked woman revealed and savours…

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Jack looks on… left, then right before having a crafty lick of the woman’s breasts…

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He ‘tears’ at her flesh as she rises up out of his mouth…

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The woman steps out of the bathtub as Jack has a gnaw on her arm…

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She walks forward and Jack cradles her legs before swirling his glass of bourbon. The bottle’s pourer injects her arm…

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Jack approaches the woman/bottle of booze, index finger erect, waggling his eyebrows…

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Lloyd, the bartender, and shelves of liquor appear between Jack and the woman…

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She reaches out to Jack. He can’t believe his luck as she starts to run her hands up his body…

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As her hands moveup to Jack’s chest, Lloyd unpours the drink from his glass, back into the bottle. He then holsters it in the woman’s vagina. Jack taps his empty glass…

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Lloyd looks on as the woman’s hands reaches Jack’s throat and Jack reaches for his glass…

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The woman’s arms snake around Jack’s neck as he caresses, first, the bottle of bourbon and then the woman’s hips and waist. They pull closer…

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They embrace and kiss. Jack is lost the heady experience…

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Jack drinks deeply of their kiss. He holds his glass out and looks at it at first admiringly…

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And then with sudden clarity. The beautiful woman is actually a scabrous old one/Lloyd and his shelf of booze. Jack is horrified…

Mirror in the bathroom

The decaying woman floats in the bathtub before advancing on a retreating Jack. As Jack tells the story, he waves his hand… it was nothing…

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Notable thing. The spirit Jack drinks/Lloyd unpours is Jack Daniels, whilst Jack tells Lloyd about Danny’s accident. The actor that plays Danny is Danny Lloyd.

If you interested in seeing a breakdown of these two scenes, but in the ‘ascent’ part of the movie, one can be found here.

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The Ballroom bathroom scene is up next in Part 3…

*Good one, Clicky!*

The Shining: Bathrooms Part 1

Enormous chair
CLICKY: Rise and Shiny

So this is a post about bathrooms in Stanley Kubrick’s film ‘The Shining’. Four are used for scenes in the film:

  1. the bathroom at Torrances’ flat in Boulder, Colorado (Danny talks to Tony);
  2. the bathroom in Room 237 at the Overlook (Jack encounters a young/old woman);
  3. the bathroom (okay, toilets) next to the Overlook Ballroom (Jack talks to Grady);
  4. the bathroom in the Torrances’ Overlook apartment (Wendy is trapped).

Inspired by CJ over at MEROVEE, this might take some time…

Merovee Eternité

*Exactly! Clicky, better give Dear Reader a Song now*

https://youtu.be/SHWrmIzgB5A

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Boulder Bathroom

In the following gifs, Danny’s words are shown in white and Tony’s in orange. In the whirled of MRS REGN, orange is the colour of Sensitivity because orange is the smell of ‘shine‘.

Forwards/ Whilst Jack is at the Overlook having his interview, Wendy and Danny wait for news at home.

Backwards\ Wendy and Danny are fleeing a rampaging Jack at the Overlook hotel.

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Notable thing No.1: In the Forwards/\Backwards version of the film, practically every scene has some form of illumination in it – lights, lamps, headlights, shine…

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Notable thing No.2: Timing. In this instance, the camera zooms in on the peculiar couple in the bedroom as Tony says ‘Don’t want to’ and Danny’s finger is illuminated.

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Part 2 to follow and in keeping with Red Universe Frank’s ‘Eternité’ post, there will indeed be a bush…

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Kubrick by Roob – X

LAST TIME

Whilst writing yesterday’s post, Elena posted news on MEROVEE of a potential Fifth Force of Nature – a ‘protophobic X boson‘

Elena A Void and Frank on X boson

“If true, it’s revolutionary,” study lead author Jonathan Feng, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, said in a statement.

“For decades, we’ve known of four fundamental forces: gravitation, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces,”

So after my interview this morning and before going home, I visited Somerset House to see ‘Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick’.

Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick (2)

There were mirrors…

No.10 ‘Twilight‘ by Doug Aitken

‘Aitken’s sculpture recalls the public pay phone used, futilely, to avert nuclear catastrophe in Dr. Strangelove. Bathed in a luminous glow, this familiar object takes on a foreign nature, appearing as a relic from a bygone civilization suspended in time.’

Gravity…

 

Gravity

No.21 ‘Gravity All Nonsense Now’ by Harland Miller

‘Both an artist and writer, Miller has based many of his paintings on classic Penguin-book covers. With his acute sense of detail for the timeworn covers and fascination for typefaces, he often incorporates his own humorous and ironic phrases. Here he creates a cover for Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.’

Another mirror…

Blue Vibration

No.39 ‘Bit Bang Mirror‘ by Haroon Mirza and Anish Kapoor

‘The skillful interplay of dissonant sound and controlled light to create a heighened sense of drama is central to Kubrick’s filmmaking. Mirza’s immersive installation incorporates a concave mirror by Kapoor, and used the tension between sound and light to illicit both psychological and visual discomfort in the viewer.’

Weak and strong nuclear forces 😉

No.44 Trident; A Strange Love by Peter Kennard, Music by UNKLE

‘Kennard’s installation juxtaposes images of characters from Dr. Strangelove with world leaders charged with nuclear arsenals. Using imagery of the film’s famous War Room, he shows that the ghosts of the past still inhabit the present.’

It was a really interesting exhibition and I may post some more on it again as I have some cool pix. But I’ll finish this post with my favourite. It’s actually two installations but their unintended ‘marriage’ made me giggle. The first…

No.3 PYRE by Stuart Haygarth

‘Haygarth’s glowing tower of electric fires refers to a scene in The Shining which Kubrick shot twice, once for Jack Nicholson’s take, and once to capture the roaring fireplace. Kubrick’s frequent use of fire as a motif in the Shining was echoed ironically in the coincidental accidental burning down of the film’s set during production in 1979.’

was combined with…

No.9 ‘The Shining Carpet’ by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin

‘Broomberg and Chanarin’s installation translates the famous carpet design from the Overlook Hotel, the fictional location of The Shining, to the exhibition space. Crossing the boundaries of fiction and reality, this act recalls the ambiguous narrative of Kubrick’s horror masterpiece.’

 

… plus a dash of ‘Elf & Safety, made me smile 😀

fire carpet

 

Have a Song 😀

Two Birds, One…

 

Tomorrow I have an appointment about a job with the originators of ‘Mr Cube‘…

The Interview

*Fortunately, Clicky, I’ve shambled sugar cubes, before 😉 *

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“Have you worked your route out yet?” Thoughtful Man was being thoughtful.

“Erm, get the train to Fenchurch Street, District line to Temple and walk up to Kingsway from there,” I replied.

I pulled up the map on my PC to check. It’s been a while since I was last in that part of London.

Thursday route

“Fuck! I forgot how close it is to Somerset House.” I looked up at Thoughtful Man expectantly. “You know what’s on at Somerset House at the moment?”

He looked at me blankly, so I told him. “The Stanley Kubrick thing. An exhibition.”

Thoughtful Man smiled.”Well there you go then. You should definitely take the opportunity whilst you’re up there.”

“Yeah. You know what they say? Two birds, one…”

“Johnny!”

Here's Johnny

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I’ll post about the exhibition in ‘Kubrick by Roob – X‘. In the meantime, Dear Reader, have a Song.

Where the seats have no name…

Previously at the LoL
CLICKY: Top Trump! Stop, wait…

*Hey thanks, Clicky! I should have included Thoughtful Man’s favourite movie quote in that post…*

At my signal unlease hell

*No, the other one…*

*’Top Secret’, that’s the one…*

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The 2016 Rio Olympic Games have been underway now for a week and the organisers have been having a bit of a crowd issue…

Where is everybody

A Goo Girl picture search for the last seven days produced…

Rio Olympic seats

… And I wondered where everybody could be…

Trump speech crowds

*Attending political circuses in US, Clicky?*

hillary rally

*Okay, maybe knot…*

smoking trump

*/rolls eyes… Clicky, have a Song*

From Hair to Eternity…

Or from Phat to Fatuous on the Outrage Express… Hold tight… Ding! Ding!

conductor

*Okay then, you can play the conductor, Clicky*

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Yesterday on my Twitter-feed came the story of a woman in the Midlands. She was offended by some advertising.

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A gym responsible for an “offensive” billboard poster has replaced it with one described as “even worse” than the original.

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*Stop smiling, Clicky*

Anti-bullying charity Combat Bullying said the poster, which suggests being “fat & ugly” requires “a cure”, gives fuel for bullies to pick on children.

Charity Martha

*Knot a charity, Click – knot as far as I can tell. Certainly not a registered one. Perhaps ‘charity’ is the BBC’s new term for ‘pressure group’? Although, possibly ‘group‘ is being charitable… certainly calling that a ‘news’ story is… /rolls eyes*

Fit4Less said their advert in Sawley, Derbyshire, is intended to be “light-hearted fun”.

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But Natalie Harvey from the charity said it “absolutely disgusts” her.

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She said she was bullied from the age of four for having a “ginger afro” and always felt “fat and ugly” herself.

I'm I ginger

*What? No, no Clicky. You’re an inter-dimensional alien space dolphin… you’re as bald as a fucking coot!*

“I don’t understand why we are using these kinds of advertising. It’s almost like shaming people.”

Well

Mrs Harvey said she can deal with the advert as a 39-year-old woman…

No

…but young or vulnerable people might not be able to.

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*Whoa. That many children and vulnerable people in Sawley, Clicky? Better rip that poster down right now!*

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“If it’s near a pub or where adults frequent I’m not bothered, but it’s a big poster outside a family supermarket,” she said.

Imagine That

*I know. An adult-only supermarket, Clicky? That would be fucking awesome… no more screaming brats hogging the sweetie aisle. Of course, pubs used to be adult-only but then they turfed out all of the smokers…*

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is it over now

*Yes, no… just one last thing…*

The research also reveals youngsters who are bullied are almost twice as likely to go on to bully others.

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Have a Song.