{"id":5346,"date":"2023-01-23T15:38:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T20:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/?p=5346"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:48:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:48:51","slug":"madness-into-our-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondthelastestate.com\/archive\/madness-into-our-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Madness into Our Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Burger King gave us The Whopper, and in one of his most famous video appearances, Andy Warhol <\/span>gave us this masterwork<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019m in awe of its completeness; how it takes a single mundane situation and renders the totality of the experience with such scant explanation.\u00a0 Just watching it is enough to place you in the vibe of the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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At The Last Estate, we constantly hunt down, absorb and cannibalize culture.\u00a0 Nom nom nom.\u00a0 We eat culture like Ouroboros eating itself.\u00a0 Like everyone, we also scavenge from it, picking the bones (and our own scabs).<\/span><\/p>\n

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For this project I wanted to see the digestive process of the apex connoisseur, as if looking into one of those cows at Ag schools with the <\/span>porthole stomachs<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Consumption voyeurism.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I ran through the halls of the Estate late at night shouting about my idea, and lo and behold, a groggy William<\/a> answered my call.\u00a0 I told him that I was going to ask people to record Warhol-like \u201cconsumptive video diaries.\u201d\u00a0 I may or may not have called them that.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 In any event, we were able to pry Karter<\/a> away from crushing <\/span>weird looking spiders<\/span><\/a> for long enough to record a video.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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We wound up picking things for each other to consume, since food and media are always better when you serve each other.\u00a0 Call it Southern hospitality.\u00a0 We conducted a Secret Santa to decide who would choose what media for whom.\u00a0 Karter wound up choosing the Freddi Fish<\/a> games collection game for me.\u00a0 William chose Vince Staples\u2019 music video, \u201cPrima Donna,<\/a>\u201d for Karter.\u00a0 I was more cryptic and open-ended, choosing \u201cthe shittiest game on your Nintendo Switch\u201d for William, which turned out to be Fortnite.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The goal was originally to mimic Warhol\u2019s burger excursion.\u00a0 But we\u2019re not Andy Fucking Warhol, so it came out different.\u00a0 \u201cNot wrong,\u201d I assured my housemates as I tipped my hat to <\/span>Bloody Mary<\/span><\/a>, returning the <\/span>AV gear<\/span><\/a> we used during filming to her mirror cosmos, \u201cJust different.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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