Word: foldout
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...when a panting Secret Service agent burst into the room, saying there was an unidentified plane in the airspace. "I couldn't see a thing without my contacts, so I held on to my husband to go down to the basement," she says. "Before they could get the lumpy foldout couch made up, they identified the plane. I got back to sleep, but I can't say the President...
...crafted "realities" of reality TV have prepared us all for The Telephone Call, a Cardiff video walk available at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. As you roam through galleries and into the museum's back stairwell, you watch prerecorded images of that route on the foldout screen of a small video camera. But that pedestrian journey is transformed by Cardiff's deadpan reveries, choral music and the sound of ghostly footsteps...
...those foldout bunnies represented something of the same diversion that we see in the diversionary journalistic spectacles of the last ten years. The real purpose of sex is not to put a grin on Hefner's goofy face, but to accomplish the relentless ongoing business of genetic reproduction. And, one suspects, the real story of what's going on in America has nothing to do with Skeletor and the missing intern...
...threw in some Plastic Ono tracks for good measure. Twenty-two tracks of it. It’s long, unremitting and opaque, and even the cool cartoon album cover artwork by David Barnes, (presumably brother of Kevin, the brains behind the band) which extends to an entire booklet and foldout poster, cannot redeem it (even the musical interpretation of the poster...
...foldout viewscreen, the camera displays the visuals for Cardiff's 17-minute "video walk." With the headphones, she directs viewers through galleries, into empty back stairways and even across the museum catwalk. In real space you move along empty passages that on your screen are full of people. Or you move down crowded passages that are empty on your screen. All the while, Cardiff reminisces and riffs as bursts of music rise and fall. In no time, her fantasies are inseparable from your own internal noise. The borders of your consciousness are slyly overrun. More fun than a funhouse excursion...