Subject: Is anyone here familiar with the SCP Foundation?
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Posted on: 2015-08-30 02:09:00 UTC
Because this is one reality-warping anomaly away from being an Are We Cool Yet? exhibition. Whether that is incredibly awesome or incredibly terrifying is up to you. Now if only those pictures were covered under the Creative Commons license...
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/08/dismaland/
"WESTON-SUPER-MARE — Inside the walls of a derelict seaside swimming resort in Weston-super-Mare, UK, mysterious construction over the last month—including a dingy looking Disney-like castle and a gargantuan rainbow-colored pinwheel tangled in plastic—suggested something big was afoot. Suspicion and anticipation surrounding the unusual activity attributed to fabled artist and provocateur Banksy has reached a Willy Wonka-esque fervor. Well, if Banksy’s your bag, continue fervoring. If not, there’s more than a few reasons to continue reading.
"The spectacle has since been revealed to be a pop-up art exhibition in the form of an apocalyptic theme park titled Dismaland (“The UK’s most disappointing new visitor attraction”) that will be open to the public for five weeks.
"The event has all the hallmark details of a traditional Banksy event from its initial shroud of secrecy to artistic themes of apocalypse, anti-consumerism, and pointed social critiques on celebrity culture, immigration, and law enforcement. However, there’s one major deviation: the bulk of the artwork packed into three main interior galleries was created by dozens of other artists.
"So just what’s hidden inside the walls of this derelict seaside resort? A demented assortment of bizarre and beautiful artworks from no less than 58 global artists including Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer, Jimmy Cauty, Bill Barminski, Caitlin Cherry, Polly Morgan, Josh Keyes, Mike Ross, David Shrigley, Bäst, and Espo. Banksy is also showing 10 artworks of his own.
"Dismaland features a cavalcade of artists featured here on Colossal over the last few years including pieces by Escif, Maskull Lasserre, Kate McDowell, Paco Pomet, Dietrich Wegner, Michael Beitz, Brock Davis, Ronit Baranga, and others."
I know this was posted more than a week ago, but I thought it would be worth sharing anyway.
Oh, and my brother's response when I showed this to him?ABANDONED BY DISNEY
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Because this is one reality-warping anomaly away from being an Are We Cool Yet? exhibition. Whether that is incredibly awesome or incredibly terrifying is up to you. Now if only those pictures were covered under the Creative Commons license...
I'm a fan, you could say. This one is my favourite (though not the one I find the scariest).
The meta aspect is glorious.
My personal favorite is one I forget the number of, or ho to find it. It was about a stone that change color depending on personality types (having to do with sin) and opens portals to other realms. While the reveal was rather disappointing, the mystery was fantastic. Easily my favorite.
I won't spoil the rest, but if you have read it before and know which SCP I'm talking bout, could you post a link? Ive been trying to find it, with no luck so far.
Right here. Personally I think SCP-732 is the most relevant to the PPC.
As far as personal favorites go, there are too many for me to pick any specific ones, though I do really like SCP-093. Some of the others I'm particularly fond of are the Scripted Nightclub for the hints of a bigger story, The Hanged King's Tragedy for the work put into creating a believable revenge tragedy and a cosmic horror story, Beauremont for its masterful combination of the surreal and the familiar, and Josie for sheer cute.
If you have not read this story yet, I highly, highly recommend you read it. This is a story that could, and should, be read by everybody. Wonderfully chilling, beautifully crafted, and a buildup that make you long for more. While I was disappointed by the ending (which I will not spoil) it does not sour the experience one bit. In fact, the ending is rather good. Just... Not where I thought the story was going. I consider this not just the best SCP, but one of the best short stories I personally have read. Seriously, read it. All of you. You will not regret it.
The Nightclub one was interesting. I like how the Foundation has got the scripts down to a science, learning how to save the most people possible, even down to being able to save the vast majority most times. This is a great example of how to show through telling. The implications, the holes filled in the mind as to how, exactly, the Foundation learned these scripts so thoroughly. Very well crafted story.
Hanged King's Tragedy is a play that, were I a better playwright then I am, I would be tempted to take a swing at writing the 'original play.' It definitely reads like a summary to a lost Shakespeare play. It took very clear inspiration from Macbeth, which while it does not have a singular figure haunting the play like this one, is infamous for being a cursed production seeped in blood. The juxtaposition between the bloody and deadly haunted production, and the grim humor of the written script makes the ghost all the more terrifying then the mere haunting would have by itself. While not as good for me as 93 or 453, it is still one of the better stories on the site.
Who doesn't love Josie? Not all SCPs have to kill you or end the world or something, they just have to be weird. Of the "lighthearted SCP's", I'm a fan of the Box of Legos. A box full of living Lego that just wants to build? What more do you want! So glad they let it just be cute for what it is. The ending was particularly good.
Yanks (and sorry, but it is mostly Yanks in this analogy) pre-Dismaland:-
"I love Banksy. I appreciate his anti-corporate, anti-establishmentarian message. It really resonates with me."
Yanks post-Dismaland:-
"YO SCREW YOU BANKSY I LOVE DISNEY SUCK MY DIIIIIIIIIII-"
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I haven't been yet, on account of it being hundreds of miles away, but I love installation art like this and I think it'll be really interesting to see how some of the lesser-known artists use the space. I'm looking forward to it! =]