Oliver Laric - 2008 screen grabs from video
The actual title is an up arrow and a down arrow but they seem to be illegal characters on my PC.
I love this video. I had been thinking of doing some animated GIFs of religious rites, if only they would let me into their god damn churches with my video camera. (if only I could remember not to say god damn churches)
i wrote a comment on vvork, tht i wont repeat here, but it was one of the more profoundly moving works ive seen recently
I thought at first it was L.M.'s family, relaxing after the strenuous card games.
(I'll have to respond to that when I finally stop laughing)
the comment didnt come up on vvork, so i will write it here:
i am reminded of growing up lds, and being baptized at 8, and then later doing baptisims for the dead at 12. the baptisim, for me, at 8, was done in a room, underneath an accordian door. the tiles of the baptisimal font were bright white, the water was hockney blue, and it smelled like ozone and cholrine. the room was used as a classroom, and the font room, so it was generic and banal in a way that this cermony is often thot not to be. it was like having satori in a rotarian living room in the mid 70s.
and the one at 12--we first had to drive 11 hours, with 12 boys my age and older, we stayed in a basement, and the next day, we were in the temple, built by a student of taleisn, and the sixth temple ever, it was a cube of white marble, on the crest of a coulee in southern alberta. we took our shoes off, walked barefoot over thick carpet, to the baptismal chamber. which was epic in it's scale. the font was on the back of 12 marble oxen, we walked up bronze stairs to pure white water, the room was an octogon, and 60 feet high, with deco style hand painted murals, depicting scenes of lamanites and nephites. i went under the water 6 or 8 times then, almost drowning, it felt, taking on the obligations of holiness, for people 1000 years ago.
those two places, the temple and the chapel, the banal and the ornate, were foundational to my aesthetic. this video, with its before and after structure, and its tenderness to the common, finding holy in the common, was profoundly moving, because it made me recognize after so long, that the instincts above were not oppostional but mutual.
The Cardston Alberta Temple that Anthony is referring to.
I had no idea that a structure this insane has existed in Canada for so long.
Obviously NOT family pictures after a card game. There is not a single beer bottle or alcoholic drink to be seen.
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Oliver Laric - 2008 screen grabs from video
The actual title is an up arrow and a down arrow but they seem to be illegal characters on my PC.
- L.M. 4-17-2008 5:34 am
I love this video. I had been thinking of doing some animated GIFs of religious rites, if only they would let me into their god damn churches with my video camera. (if only I could remember not to say god damn churches)
- L.M. 4-17-2008 5:39 am
i wrote a comment on vvork, tht i wont repeat here, but it was one of the more profoundly moving works ive seen recently
- anthony (guest) 4-17-2008 11:14 am
I thought at first it was L.M.'s family, relaxing after the strenuous card games.
- M.Jean 4-17-2008 4:17 pm
(I'll have to respond to that when I finally stop laughing)
- L.M. 4-17-2008 7:27 pm
the comment didnt come up on vvork, so i will write it here:
i am reminded of growing up lds, and being baptized at 8, and then later doing baptisims for the dead at 12. the baptisim, for me, at 8, was done in a room, underneath an accordian door. the tiles of the baptisimal font were bright white, the water was hockney blue, and it smelled like ozone and cholrine. the room was used as a classroom, and the font room, so it was generic and banal in a way that this cermony is often thot not to be. it was like having satori in a rotarian living room in the mid 70s.
and the one at 12--we first had to drive 11 hours, with 12 boys my age and older, we stayed in a basement, and the next day, we were in the temple, built by a student of taleisn, and the sixth temple ever, it was a cube of white marble, on the crest of a coulee in southern alberta. we took our shoes off, walked barefoot over thick carpet, to the baptismal chamber. which was epic in it's scale. the font was on the back of 12 marble oxen, we walked up bronze stairs to pure white water, the room was an octogon, and 60 feet high, with deco style hand painted murals, depicting scenes of lamanites and nephites. i went under the water 6 or 8 times then, almost drowning, it felt, taking on the obligations of holiness, for people 1000 years ago.
those two places, the temple and the chapel, the banal and the ornate, were foundational to my aesthetic. this video, with its before and after structure, and its tenderness to the common, finding holy in the common, was profoundly moving, because it made me recognize after so long, that the instincts above were not oppostional but mutual.
- anthony (guest) 4-17-2008 8:19 pm
The Cardston Alberta Temple that Anthony is referring to.
I had no idea that a structure this insane has existed in Canada for so long.
- L.M. 4-17-2008 8:36 pm
Obviously NOT family pictures after a card game. There is not a single beer bottle or alcoholic drink to be seen.
- GMoboLM (guest) 4-18-2008 12:24 am
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- here are some more (guest) 4-18-2008 2:24 am