The Mirror

[woops]

One of the most popular pieces of art over the past decade has been mirror-based, kasuma's infinity rooms. The popularity is partly insta-driven and partly coz they've managed to create the impression of scarcity around them (eg its impossible to get into the tate modern one without reserving months in advance). but also because infinitely reflecting mirrors are quite an amazing thing to see, if possibly not particularly profound. the first time I saw one exhausted after walking around LA all day really left an impression.

yeah i was gutted i couldn't get into this show

 

[shakahislop]

yeah i was gutted i couldn't get into this show

its weird. the one in LA you can make a booking for two hours later. or at least you could in 2019. the one in copenhagen you just walked in. that tate one is impossible. maybe coz its temporary and the others are permanent

 

[woops]

fortunately for me id already seen her infinity rooms in 2001 and bought the book

that was sold out too but i told them on the door my name is @william_kent

 

[shakahislop]

the zoom mirror as well. every day turning the camera on before a meeting and checking what you look like. several times a day even. catching sight of yourself in conference room cameras, projected up onto the screen. hours and hours of yourself recorded in meetings. this has only happened over the last few years. I'm so familiar with what I look like in profile now.

 

[shakahislop]

fortunately for me id already seen her infinity rooms in 2001 and bought the book
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that was sold out too but i told them on the door my name is @william_kent

were they a big sold out deal even in 2001? i had no idea

 

[woops]

were they a big sold out deal even in 2001? i had no idea

nah just joking she's definitely become an industry since then though

 

[woops]

etc

 

[sufi]

 

[WashYourHands]

https://www.visitpeakdistrict.com/things-to-do/upper-derwent-valley-p681561

Vision - digital life and screens as a hall of mirrors. I saw our home where every wall, ceiling or floor was an encasing mirror with thousand angles of reflection, 3D but it shaped it into the 2d screen. Had a 5 mins wobble lol but mediated with it by dangling feet in the river.

last psychedelic insight

 

[linebaugh]

Has anyone mentioned looking in a mirror while high on drugs?

 

[version]

In a more general sense we may say that the mirror is a symbolic object which not
only reflects the characteristics of the individual but also echoes in its expansion
the historical expansion of individual consciousness. It thus carries the stamp of
approval of an entire social order: it is no coincidence that the century of Louis XIV
is epitomized by the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles,

Baudrillard, The System of Objects

 

[shakahislop]

i've also had the on shrooms looking into the mirror experience, it was quite an amazing thing, totally by accident at my mates house, i was able to see myself in the mirror as a third object, see my reflection and myself as a separate person. i've managed to access it every now and then in the years since sometimes sober, sometimes smoking weed. it was good though.

 

[luka]

Has anyone mentioned looking in a mirror while high on drugs?

not so far!

 

[WashYourHands]

Pointing mirror guy Memes - Imgflip

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[version]

 

[shakahislop]

that middle one is exactly what i thought you'd look like

 

[WashYourHands]

who hasn’t been here

 

[IdleRich]

Has anyone mentioned looking in a mirror while high on drugs?

 

[sus]

very successful thread version!

 

[linebaugh]

not so far!

Why is version laughung at this