#showday

[thatcreepydoll]

oh the beautiful chaos of show day ❤️

i mean hey we dance for God here so i’ll do anything for Him 😋

[djdenise0477]

Introducing DJ Denise producer, audio engineer, DJ, radio host, and artist. Working in the community for over 20 years. Learn more about DJ Denise in the links in bio. Photos by @shahanahzaynah & @geemareevideo #DJ #Denzin8productions #ShowDay #LiveMusic #HipHop #CanadianRap #RnBSoul #PopMusic #CanadianTour #CanadianMusic #photography #videography #vancouvermusicscene #HipHopCanada #HipHopVancouver (at Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Səl̓ilwətaɁɬ, and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Unceded Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/CllDtneud_Y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[vivslyrics]

As I recover from the shock of BHOF acceptance, I still have a few more performances to do. Tonight we celebrate the birthdays of 2 amazing performers at Triptease tonight: @deedee.cupcake & @vixendeville I’m bringing the 2 pictured acts as requested. Come out and celebrate tonight it’s going to be awesome! #ladysapphirenoir #lolabouteepresents #vixendeville #deedeecupcake #thedollfacedames #bday #classic #showday #songbird #triptease #santamonica (at TRiP Santa Monica) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqGuse8PxYK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[themisadventuresofmiarose]

Had so much fun last night being a kitty… can’t wait for October now… #burlesque #dancer #costume #kitty #cat #showday (at Ashton-under-Lyne) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co1W3GcolT60XkdpzOqE_YC_VrBN6Fvi5LWeE80/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jilljesalyn76]

It’s #showday and we are ready!! #johnnywalkerblack is ready for his @fwssr debut! #bestlittleshowteamintexas #itsshowtimeintexas #lovemytribe @cjflorence99 @maddieflo99 #losflorencias2023 https://www.instagram.com/p/CoM_USMLdws/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[disasterblaster]

With the snow we're getting today, you're probably getting your snow shovel out.

But before you start clearing your driveway and walkways, check out these important safety tips!

[myreputation]

going for edgy cowgirl but you can’t see the boots… see u on saturday @taylorswift 💫🤠💌

[catboylister]

hi iwbftblr i am going to yap about when/why i think listers addiction starts because i think about it a lot

cw for disscussions of alcoholism (obviously) but also sa and poverty and basically anything lister goes through at all. bro is living ROUGH

i don't believe that its as simple as hes just got an 'addictive personality' or he has the addiction gene. jimmy himself even says that "before we got famous, lister showed little sign of being into the party lifestyle, beyond being mildly disruptive at school." (pg 79.) so its most likely due to other triggers that his addiction began.

one of the most obvious things that triggers his alcoholism is having access to money after growing up in poverty. also on pg 79 jimmy says "as soon as we started making money, lister's love for the finer things reared its head." growing up in poverty is fucking rough, and lister is still a young teen when they start getting famous, he has no idea how budgeting, savings or credit actually works. its a very typical childish response for him to have. in the scene where they argue in the bathroom lister confirms that he was very close to living on the streets, so of course hes going to be excitable and reckless when he has access to the wild amount of money they get from being famous. and again, lister basically confirms that this wealth is a big trigger for him, drinking and parties for him is just "enjoying having money and being happy." (pg. 141)

as for when that actually starts, isn't the most clear, but you can sort of create a timeline by looking at some of the extra materials like 'the incident on showday' and the wiki pages alice has made !! while the incident doesn't actually have a canon ending, the things we learn about the characters and how the act tells us a little bit more the ark's life pre-iwbft.

starting with 'the incident on showday' lister is 17 and it's very clear that he's already struggling with alcoholism. it's very much passed the 'just social drinking' phase considering he's (very badly) drinking in secret already. also cecily's 'no drinking on show days' rule is already a thing at the point. (this is all on the starting page of the game)

skipping slightly forward, when you get to the part where you're in the supply cupboard with jimmy, and choose to apologise, lister begins to ramble about his alcoholism and reveals quite a bit.

"look, i just... i know this isn't the first time i've done this and i promise... i swear i'll try to sort it out." / "i just... with the drinking... i feel like i can barely control it anymore, i dunno, and i always do it when i don't want to-"

from this we know that lister knows he has an issue, and maybe that he's been trying to deal with it on his own, but it hasn't been working out. either way, at 17, its already an issue that has been going on for a while. which makes me think that it became an addiction when he was either 16 or 17

we know that at these ages he's been through a lot. he was for the first time when he was 16, and i'd say it's implied that it happened again with kevin but thats a whole other conversation. it would have also been around the time that the suitcase incident happened and rowan was ignoring him, so he would've probably felt very lonely, and partied more to try cope with that. these, plus the money are probably the biggest causing factors for his addiction, at least from my interpretation.

also, as for jimmy and rowan not intervening, through iwbft, especially at the start, lister's drinking habits are sort of portrayed as just this quirk of his. though jimmy's attitude towards it gets more serious as the week goes on. jimmy only comes to the realisation that lister is displaying obvious signs of alcoholism for the first time when he finds him in the bathroom. he does attempt to bring this up to lister, but ultimately it is considered and issue for another day, which results in the whole lister almost dying because red flags weren't taken seriously enough thing. again thats probably better for a whole other conversation too.

but anyway, timeline that makes most sense in my head is:

the ark start blowing up + making money -> the record their first album -> lister is assaulted -> album eventually comes out and they're preparing for their first european tour -> lister accidentally outs jimmy -> rowan ignores lister for 2 months, so probably that entire tour -> lister is extremely lonely -> he starts to party more to as a coping mechanism simply because he can -> he learns that if he's ever sad or stressed drinking 'fixes' it -> congrats !! alcoholism achieved !! -> 'the incident on showday' takes place somewhere here

do not try this at home guys

[poems-of-the-anentomologist]

Pride Poems Day #17 (Poem B) Theme: Demiromantic A special thank you to @leafgorge, the reader, and to Cicada, for the memories

The First Time I Saw You (Cicada’s Poem)

Friday, December 8th, 2023.

Showday.

Up in the catwalks.

Running the spotlights,

With a person I know from many conversations in Economy

What’s it like being you? I wonder that often.

There’s so much life in you.

I’m glad to have known you, brief as it was.

I glance over.

And then I see you.

Your brown hair in a ponytail,

Looking down at your phone.

I shake my head, look away.

The show starts.

We practiced this.

It’s going great.

I look over again.

Your glasses are perfectly clean.

Your face is happy,

I make a joke, or try to,

The words seize in my throat.

I try to say something, but no,

You are already dating someone,

You are already happy.

What’s it like reading something about yourself

If you know it’s by a person who hurt you in ways I don’t want to think about? Do you ignore it,

Do you hate it? I bet you hate it.

The show is ending, I look over one last time.

I want to put the spotlight on you,

I want to reach out and tell you something,

I want to hug you tight, tight enough so you won’t turn to ash.

I don’t.

I go home, and lie down in my bed, head dazed.

I tell myself

I’ve never felt that way towards anyone before.

We are just friends. That's all we are.

It’s never gonna happen. I scoff at my own foolishness, Stuff my love into a box, and bury it

There’s no X over the spot where I buried my heart,

I’ll just stumble over it again later.

I ask myself, one final time

What the fuck was that? I laugh.

“Never gonna happen”

I mutter as I fall into a dreamless sleep

[kodimap]

JJK0 Showday~

[b0tch3d-analog]

the way that we suck so bad for this musical number the choreographer had to get our phone numbers for a group facetime

(2 days b4 showday)

[pegasus2023]

SHOWDAY IN NEW YORK | DER BESTE TIM ALLER ZEITEN

[7-dreamers]

[230224] _mymusictaste Twitter Update: 

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[vgilantee]

BYE chad most definitely takes ethan to a stripclub on his 21st birthday...... you're invited too. infact the whole group is and you just watch ethan react to all these dancers in front of him.... poor boy would probably be having a field day....

but he wishes it was you in front of him dancing like that.

i forgot for a second the whole... drinking age in the states is 21 for a moment lmao.

but yes. definitely. he hands out invites that's just... "ethan is 21, let's so see some tits". that's the whole invite alsdfkajsfdlkja

taking pole classes and inviting him to the class showday. i really want to take pole classes

[exocean]

showday 2/8 💃

[weeklyblogbycalvin]

Week 11

1. Reflection

This week, my focus was on refining my project since these were the final weeks before the showday. I maintained the process of listing out small tasks, addressing each element that needed improvement or implementation one by one. Tuesday was another feedback session where Pharos students are expected to bring their sessions to be reviewed by tutors. For my serene multisensory experience especially, feedback I received were towards the movements and fadings of lights. Observing the work from tutors' perspective showed that the coloured lighting faded out a bit too fast for serenity. The work requires more subtlety and slower movements to achieve the chosen state. Also another feedback was towards the articulation of birds chirping that I did last week, in which I used different colours for different times when birds’ sounds were introduced into the experience. Darrin suggested that I should be consistent with the colour choices to articulate birds to prevent complexity in a serene experience. Improving the project based on feedback given would allow me to create a stronger, cohesive experience that expresses serenity while being simple, subtle, calming. 

Another feedback session happened on Thursday, right before an additional Capitol visit to test and refine our work. The feedback received from this session was towards the use of blackouts and consistent lighting articulations to maximise the serene approach. Although the use of blackouts can contribute to a sense of subtlety, overusing or long blackouts might make the experience unnatural. This occurred when transitioning from the sunny to rainy section in my experience. I could actually use thunder sounds and articulation to lead the experience from sunny to rainy seamlessly, having a blackout moment here was unnecessary. Testing these iterations inside the Capitol this week, I realised more problems that could be tackled and improved. The experience indeed needed to be more subtle, in which I would need to reveal small lightings at once. Seeing how lights in my project ran inside the Capitol also led me to the conclusion that I should be using less yellow - as currently it is too bright which disrupts the serene flow. I like how the spreading movement of lighting creates a sense of openness into the space and it was immersive yet subtle enough to achieve serenity. This is something that I can implement more to give a soft, gradual fade-in effect that would make the experience immersive. Another successful exploration in this test was the rain articulation using the sparkle properties. It syncs with the rain sounds from the audio and with the right adjustment of speed and subtlety could make it less busy yet create an immersive yet peaceful/calming rainy setting. This is a crucial Capitol session that will help me make final changes/touch ups to create a bold experience that maximises the approach for serenity.

I will analyse more about how I implement these changes in the project progress section. 

2. Research

Academic - Characteristics of colours, interior design and their psychological and physiological effects - NG ÇİÇEK, K Gökçakan (2016)

The paper analyses the signifcance of soft colour spreads and movements in contribution to psychological restoration. It was said that the movement contributed to a soft, calming effect in which have been used in airplane's lighting system to maintain consistent brightness yet still allow passengers to easily fall asleep without causing any disturbance. Understanding this concept allows me to refine and enhance my lighting design to another level, assuring that consistent lighting design would contribute to serenity, and without causing any distraction or disturbance among audiences.

Creative Practice - Cameron’s Relaxing HMex

During this class I also got a chance to see Cameron’s work. He created a calming video which had quite a long duration. It is being paired with a soothing soundtrack to enhance the chosen state. With visual connections to nature like trees and the presence of water within the video, the work definitely feels calming, relaxing. With subtle movements and soothing sound, his project achieved a relaxing state, but I find the long video being quite repetitive, which I expect to push the boundary a bit and present something special within the work so it would less feel like a background ambient video that you would find at a spa or clinic.

Technical

For this week, the techincal research, or I would say practice, would contribute towards the organising layout and lighting fixtures to assure better lighting design process.

As you can see, my previous groups of lighting fixtures was rather messy, repetitive; and there are times when it takes me quite a while to find out what fixture I am looking for, because there are too much. I approach this research by looking at others' pharos session, to see how people organise their groupings and fixture to have a more logical workflow that is efficient and time-saving.

3. Project progress.

Longer fade-outs / Smoother transitions

The progress this week was about improving the lighting compositions and movements. Based on received feedback, I worked on having longer fade outs while still maintaining the synchronisation with sound. The colour fades were more gradual, which contributed to serenity. Softer and slower transitions not only created a smoother experience but the colour stayed longer in the architecture that created a slow, dragging tempo which made it peaceful, calm. 

Colour spreads

The successful use of colour spreads meant that I could implement more of this movement to articulate sound. However, I tried to balance it out, avoiding over-using the spread movement to prevent repetition. The spreads could go horizontal or vertical, worked best with audio when creating a build-up, or revealing/opening up the space, enhancing the imaginative nature environment concept. 

Ceiling articulation

Through various tests inside the Capitol, I found out that ceiling activity can get too bright, which disrupts the experience or ruins other colours which are also displayed. Therefore, I have made adjustments in which the ceiling activity would be even more subtle and smaller. This design choice also allows audiences to focus more on other parts of the Capitol like walls and pro-arch, the ceiling’s subtlety is there to enhance, contributing to the immersive experience without being distracting or disrupting the serene flow.