VIDEO CHAPTER NOTES
Race the Sun Meditation. Jeff Crouch Music.
Moon on Fire Meditation. Super Blood Wolf Moon eclipse January 2019. Jeff Crouch music.
Welcome. The Cape island trader narrating the video discusses the seasonal economy of his island. He describes the effects of imported workers to service vacationers on the environment and community, and housing problems (with his personal solution), and the politics in his personal life. Trip Barnes. Photography, video, Martha's Vineyard.
Tears in the Night. Club Paradise is always here, waiting for you....advertisement for Club Paradise. Jeff Crouch music.
Last Exit. Poetry dialogue mixed with screen grabs from the bleak, noir, 1945 Club Paradise released the same year the US bombed Hiroshima. Last Exit becomes a romantic vacation advertisement that comments on perception, storytelling and propaganda. Jeff Crouch music.
Club Paradise. An advertisement for a fictional resort suggests memory and nostalgia are used by corporate interests to produce a workers' consciousness tolerant of capitalist slavery. Blaine Reininger music, Fly Me To The Moon. Destany Foley.
SELECTED PROJECTS OF CLUB PARADISE
Blue Souvenir, Mandala. Series of 6. Cyanotype, a 'blueprint.' The vacation industry has a blueprint for your consciousness, to attain relaxation, alter your consciousness, a sign of a successful vacation. On vacation you produce memories to consume later. A souvenir is a memory aide, to remind you of those experiences. Nostalgia is embedded in vacation. When you enjoy a memory, you want to produc
Decorating Bone Tree or Shell Tree was a delightful experience for many tourists and vacationers for years. Until a new house builder cut it down in the night, because it blocked his view.
Club Paradise. Slide show, graphic essay. Found images. Digital collage. Series of 14 pages.
photography, CAPE COD TOURIST AREA
