Mistigram: the palette selection is totally glitch, but the nature of this #teletext illustration by @blippypixel, "Teltracing", is totally figurative: it's a #NewtonsCradle, a fixture of the desks of high-powered '80s business executives and handy physics demonstration. This piece was included in the recent MIST0223 artpack collection.
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aaron and andrew and newton’s cradle /pendulum imagery. there’s just something about it.
(adding newton’s cradle here bc i think my description of it is confusing - i’m sure everyone knows what it is but this is Just In Case):
the two of them are constantly falling back on each other, just like the weights in newton’s cradle fall back due to gravity. if gravity represents the history between them, then you can consider that to be what’s bringing them back down after being pulled away, time after time. they can’t leave each other, because they need each other, so they always come back. it could also represent the deal between them - they’re stuck in this repetitive swinging motion, forced away but forced to come back, because of the deal they made to stick by each other.
but at the same time, it is also gravity that pushes the weight on the left side to swing upwards, after the one on the right side has swung down, and vise versa. so, in this metaphor, their history, the deal between them, is also the thing that is pushing the other away.
newton’s cradle also places more weights between the left and right side to act as obstruction, to stop the movement of the one swinging down, preventing the left and right side from moving together. they force the one swinging down to stop moving and transmit a pressure wave which forces the opposite side to swing up. these can represent the people that the two of them consider to get in the way of a harmonious relationship existing between them. for example, tilda, katelyn, neil.
so they’re stuck in this movement, the upswing and the downswing, never in harmony, but they still can’t leave each other. when something removes the force of gravity - aka, the end of their deal, the slow healing of their relationship through therapy - the weights stop moving. they’re aligned with each other, not touching, still stuck on their own side of the cradle, with weights (people - katelyn, neil) between them, but they’re steady.
[video description: Doctor Darling and an assistant are being filmed in one of his labs. She is at the computers and he’s walking near a table. Darling playfully hits a newtons cradle with a pointer stick, while the assistant looks directly at the camera with judgement. End VD.]
[ID: Cropped text from FBC files between Hubert and Carla. The first from Hubert reads, “Hi Carla, Does it strike you as odd that Darling insists on having us appear in those bizarre videos of his? I mean, we just stand there, he doesn't even let us have lines or anything. Don't get me wrong-beats a day in the lab. Plus it's always great to work with you.” The second from Carla reads, “Yes, the video shoots are always interesting. I expect my availability for those to decrease in the future, however, as my analysis of this newly discovered Black Rock variant is reaching a critical point. I hope you will be able to attend them still. Darling seems to be under a lot of pressure lately, and I'm sure he would appreciate any support you can provide.” End ID.]
The tension here is atrocious. They can’t stand Darling’s fun and whimsical attitude
thorsten leaning on sebastian's desk like this. while sebastian is sitting at it. swr why no zoomed out shot of this where we can see the situation properly. swr. swr come back here i need to talk to you
Me watching Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence: this is a fascinating movie but i probably won’t think about it much
Me the next day listening to the soundtrack: jk this movie is getting embedded in my soul so hard i am vibrating and i will not be able to think about anything else for the next week