“Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight”Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger, 1954) & The Wormwood Star (Curtis Harrington, 1956)
Mar
26
Purple Day
1: The Scarlet Woman (Marjorie Cameron) wearing a fantastic peacock-like robe and crown. DP: Kenneth Anger.
2: Cameron as herself. Here too she wears references to the peacock Aiwass, who dictated The Book of the Law to Crowley.
Someone wears purple on Purple Day (International Epilepsy Day).
Both in The Wormwood Star (Curtis Harrington, 1956) and Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger, 1954), Marjorie Cameron wears shades of purple. Professionally known as Cameron, she was a follower of #Thelema, the philosophical movement founded by occultist Aleister Crowley.
– Aleister Crowley, Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX (1904)
Meanwhile in 1946, rocket scientist #JackParsons and (pre-Scientology) sci-fi author #LRonHubbard worked on a series of Crowley-related Magick ceremonies named Babalon Working. After Parsons declared the rituals a success, he encountered Cameron in his own house. She became the element required to continue the ceremonies, this resulting in her being declared Babalon, the Scarlet Woman.
Avantgarde
“My film is going to be introduced by a fake panda and it’s going to be about Japanese salted plums among other things.”On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in “WIT AND ITS RELATION TO THE UNCONSCIOUS” or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed (Owen Land, 1977)
Mar
16
National Panda Day
Two fake pandas in a black-and-white room, seated on zebra-striped chairs. The floor has black-and-white square tiles and the walls black-and-white polkadots. Framed behind them, two black squares with white passe-partouts.
Owen Land explores meaning, wit, and #WordPlay, and manages to unite the #marketing of #umeboshi #plums in a wide variety of vessels, the brokering of #brides, and pandas discussing #Freud in all of the above contexts.
– FIRST PANDA