From: QueeneMUSE@aol.com
Date: Wed Sep 22 1999 - 03:25:34 MDT
Someone wrote:
>Club Float looks pretty, but ten other clubs in NYC are using that decor as
>well, and they draw a really boring yuppie crowd for the most part. The
>decor is just a backdrop, nothing really interesting or experimental going
>on there. A huge new club opened in DC (2K9) with a millenial/cyber decor,
>and it's the same thing.
>
Boring. Noting Interesting. Inertia. Narrow focus. Put down.
Backdrop is important. Backdrop of Life. Life as theater. Theater as impact.
Impact as vision. Vision as passion. Passion as impetus. Impetus as drive.
Drive as Force. Force as movement. Movement. Go. Accelerate. New.
>When I go to a club, I'm more interested in the people, are they
>experimenting? Are they creating an intense scene that changes from week
>to week as the people change their interests? To me, that creates a moving
>art scene, one that is temporary but very intense, and a new performance
>every night.
>
People *are* affected by architecture, design and decor, including smells,
music... Sensual beings, sensing that entire ambiance of a place. Our
experience is greatly affected by it "BUT ONLY IF WE ARE ATTUNED TO DELICACY
OR IMAGERY AND ENVIRONMENT". It is like taking a moment to breathe in the air
of a new city and finding out what it has ti offer. We must be finely tuned
to use it. It is a learned skill, and a valued one, IMO. It requires a
stepping outside of one's own ego and personal experience for a moment and
saying "what affects me here" - detached from one's own agenda. It requires a
love of life and all it offers. i t requires a large focus, liek blurring
your eyes when you look at neon lights. It is availble if we look for it, but
it does not appear - not for the singleminded.
I loved the original post (I have seen the images, not the actual venues)
because it touched on something that Fascinates Me.
When i first heard of the Exi list, I imagined a forum where playful, highly
tuned visionaries threw out ideas - images(being an artist i visualized it
that way).I had seen the magazine and it was very visual. It also had a lot
of words - but even the words invited "visions" of the future. I thought of
unlimited people playfully inventing hyroponics gardens in the air, emerald
islands of nano, huge utopian offworld colonies, implants, neuromancer jacked
in environments, genetic engineering feats, the end of labor, rockets,
landfills, floating cities, etc etc.
brainstorming...
What I am encountering instead ( to my great aMUSEment) is dour resistance to
"play" - some critical critical can I say it again critical.....nay saying
festivities.
Look, N's post was fun! It was ticklish! It was EVOCATIVE... To me, it made
me want to know more -- want to find out what it was about her that simplw
photos of places, gaev rise to images -- that made her brain tick! Made her
want to share them to our little cyber culture! It struck me that it might be
ambience, or moodand environment that simply reminded us "what are we doing
to make our place in the world a part of the visions we seek to portray!!!
Possible tools for recreating our live-spaces:
Lighting, color, texture, cast metals, lovely people, beads, elevators,
curves, anilmals, screens, smells, stairs, music, large space, dancers, fuzzy
materials, levels, images, projection, holos... etc... ...sigh....
incredible...
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