Studio Legends
A Chilly installation
Spooky Scary Studio
It was halloween, darkness began to stretch longer, the cold began to deepen; so I celebrated with a studio installation - for a bunch of landscape architecture nerds who had little time to make festivities of their own. We couldn't just let the season go past unnoticed.
Story Transcription
The Urban Farm Hummer is back!
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I repeat, it is BACK!
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I was walking back to Lawrence from the Urban Farm, and like last time, I started to feel my ears buzzing. Like a mosquito but from your ears and into your head, and the buzzing turned into this melody.
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It was a pretty melody actually, but it seemed to come from nowhere in particular but also right in my ears!
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I swatted at my ears and it went quiet, but only for like a moment.
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It kept coming back and was even getting louder.
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When I got to the bridge by the Millrace, it began to drown out the noise of traffic.
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Now by this point I'm freaking out a bit (a lot), but as I moved towards the main crosswalk, it began to quicken.
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The moment I stepped foot on the other side, the Onyx Pavement, it stopped completely.
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Next to me, this other girl had also just crossed the road, she had a mystified look on her face.
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We made eye contact, and we both knew.
Urban Legends
I highly recommend bringing stories back into public spaces; to maybe infuse something strange, something fleeting, and temporary, but hopefully still impactful. For no other reason but that you want to do it.
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One time I was in studio, not even late at night it was just, like, 8pm.
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I was coming out of the bathroom and there was a person by the water fountain, looking at me, like they were waiting for me.
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So I said like, "Hey," just to acknowledge people, ya know?
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But there was NO RESPONSE not even a *blink.*
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But I was like, whatever, people be like that, and I walked to my studio door and punched in the code; but then..
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You know that feeling when you KNOW someone is watching you?
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I was getting that feeling so I turned around and Waterfountain-Creep was standing there still looking at me.
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And THEN they opened their mouth super wide, like some weird snake; and inside was all ashen white...
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...and as I watched
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frozen
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white drool like paint began to just pour out (remind me to tell you about the next time it happened - it was wierder!)
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so then,
Prank
This was also lowkey a prank on tall people who have enjoyed supremacy for too long. For once something is made for the shorties. That being said, no tall people were harmed in this experiment.
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So this is gonna sound weird, but, you know that myth that you're not supposed to walk through a Meadow in a straight line?
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I tried it, just to prove it was stupid (and lets face it I didn't want to look weak in front of my friends lol).
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We were at Mt Pisgah, out by the Meadows with the Power lines, and they were walking towards our picnic spot, kind of winding their way up.
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Its actually kind of hard to walk through there in a straight line, cause of the topo but I had a point to prove, so I carved my way through.
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Nothing happened.
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On our way back to our cars, there was this, like, tension in my shoulders, which isn't unusual but, throughout the day it kept intensifying.
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When I woke up the next day, my shoulders and back were so frozen up and all day I was hobbling around in crippling pain.
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Now I couldn't go to the doctor 'cause like, what is Health Insurance, so I was like, "Guys, take me back to the Meadow."
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I got complaints and weird looks but I was sure.
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They relented though, and we went back. I rewalked the meadow in a winding way.
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By the time I got to our picnic spot. The tension was nearly gone.
That being said
How are holidays actually created. As someone who lives in the Southern hemisphere, I too would like at least three festivities to celebrate the colder months: I want to gather, I want to feast, I want to cease work and drink seasonal beverages. Someone come up with something, quick.
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Whatever you do, don't type in the door code in reverse order.
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LOL.
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Don't do it.
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And I know someone out there is gonna do it, like an idiot but here is your official warning.
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Obviously the door won't open and you'll get stuck but, its not just in that utilitarian sense.
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If you didn't know, there are many ways to be Stuck.
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This is not a kind of stick you want to be.
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I'm not gonna elaborate 'cause I know summa y'all like to try shit, even when people told you NOT to.
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So yeah, don't listen to the rumors -
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- do not try it -
- its not fun fun -
- you will regret it -
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P.S. The guy I know who tried it, left the school, in the middle of the term.
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He gave some lame ass excuse but like...