Art references in "Painted Windows"
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ReBoot Episode 18 (code 9504)
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"PAINTED WINDOWS"
* Synopsis
* References
Title credits
Written by
Jono Howard, Susan Turner
Story by
Gavin Blair, Phill Mitchell, Ian Pearson, Mark Schiemann, Susan
Turner
Synopsis
Hexadecimal paints the town red, blue, yellow, and all sorts of
colors. All of Mainframe becomes a gallery of her works, and the
surreal images make life difficult for others.
Story
The opening shot from above Lost Angles shows just how twisted the
Gilded Gate Bridge really is. The point of view flies over Mainframe
and down to the vault under the Principal Office. One of the guards
says "I've heard that the Web is out of control; invading other
systems." The rookie asks, "What's the Web?". Just then, Hexadecimal
shows up.
Dot, in lilac colored running shorts, leads several Ones and an Eight
on a jog around Floating Point park. (The big guy declares "I 'ate
exersize".) Bob and the biker chick are checking out a V3 Data Cycle.
Then a crudely drawn sun is drawn onto Mainframe's sky. Phong explains
that Hexadecimal has tampered with the system Paint command. And
broken through the defenses of the Archives.
The guards have been kidnapped (into "The Scream"). Hex does a Rod
Sterling imitation; "Picture if you will, an artist". [Woman with
blond hair, colored with big dots, going "Sob!"] Paint can flooding
sides of Baudway skyscrapers with pink. Red ribbon on other buildings.
Then a large blob of multicolored paint swallowing up construction
truck and binomes. Polka dots on round towers. The Zero guard as Mona
Lisa. Megabyte's Tor painted like a yellow vase, with Hexadecimal's
name as grafitti and holding giant sunflowers. Megabyte yells at Hex
for destroying his Tor, and she tells him to not have such a long
face, then makes his face short and wide. She paints him as a
harlequin wearing a tutu, then lasso's his outline and does a cut and
paste, leaving him stuck to the sky.
Phong warns that the damage from Hex's painting will become permanent
at the next system backup. Bob has to get to the linked program in
Hex's Lair and perform an Undo operation before Phong can break the
link. But before he can give more details, Phong's head is erased and
replaced with a green apple. "Now you really are the 'Keeper of the
Core'" cackles Hex.
Phong gets pasted to the sky opposite MB. Bob tries to contact Dot,
but Glitch melts and falls off his wrist. Vid Windows are covered with
black ink; it's a communications blackout. The buildings and even the
zip-boards are melting. Dot's organizer is kapoot. [Painting of
aqueduct or bridge.] [Skull, melting watches, goofy fish swimming in
air, barren trees cut but standing, Salvador Dali.]
Mike the TV is in Floating Point Park being a pretentious art critic.
[White cube with red dog, green and blue men, eye in diamond.] [Trees
looking like balloons.] [Rodin's "The Thinker" statue and door to the
sky.] [Towers with orthogonal black lines, red, blue and yellow
rectangles.] [Silo with orange ball, blue dumbells, black bow ties.]
[Pastel orange wall covered with posters of Dot's head.] [Simple
drawing of a man in a hat carrying an ice cream cone (Peter Max?).]
[Rotating heart outline with yellow rays.] [Big lips in Traffic
Window.] [Leaning Tower of Pisa.] [Polka dotted wrapping paper.]
[Shiny metallic taffy.]
The top dome of the Principle Office has the hand of God touching Man
from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. HD has reproduced the Arc de
Triumph at the end of the Bridge. [Man with 3 eyes and upraised arm or
giant ear.] [Bull with nose ring, changing colors.] There are several
large slugs (giant nulls) each with a cardboard cutout of Bob's face.
(It's the artist's "blue period".) Bob's path has life size cardboard
images of himself. Except for the final one with Bob holding a movie
camera, they all fall down like dominoes.
Dot is sliding down a wildly looping gold ribbon. When she passes Enzo
and Frisket, the dog shrinks to about 3 inches in height. Enzo puts
him on his cap and jumps onto the slide. When they get inside the
Archive, the tunnel ends as the mouth of a giant Hex face, and instead
of stairs, several Vid Windows are arranged in a double helix of DNA.
Enzo tries to walk on them, but falls, and his image ends up being
split among several Vid Windows.
Lost Angles has been turned into a cheerful riot of color. Mike and
Bob think it's funny that Scuzzy is guarding Hexadecimal's Lair, until
the little guy gets close, and is revealed to be 10 feet tall. With
teeth, too. Bob yells to Mike to "split up", but Scuzzy takes the
command to heart, and splits into Scuzzy-1 and Scuzzy-2. Before Bob
and Mike get crushed between the two, Hexadecimal shows up. Bob claims
that he represents Mainframe's local art's program.
Meanwhile, Enzo has figured out how to control the Vid Windows. He
replicates them like stairs for Dot, as they go looking for the system
Paint program. They find it, and sure enough, it has a link.
Bob and Mike interview the reclusive artist. She has several self
portraits. [Blue and white face with sharp angles.] [Blurry one with
light purple background.] [Head only painting.] "The huge impact of
her work." [Painting with red vertical stripe, surrounded by two dark
blue stripes.] [Green painting of girl with black hair.] [Hex face
covered by moving swirls.] [Several overlapping masks.] (Note that Bob
has something rolled up and stuffed into his belt.) "I'm ready for my
close up now, Mr. Guardian." But the cameraman does not move. It is
Bob's cardboard image.
As Hex goes berzerk looking for the real guardian, Bob has snuck
around to the link to the Paint command. Clicking on the "help" icon,
Bob navigates through several layers of menus, until he gets to the
"Undo All" operation. This causes the DNA ladder in the Archives to
collapse, giving the signal to Dot and Enzo. Hexadecimal starts coming
after Bob, who does a cut-and-paste job on her face. A Hex without a
mask is a dreadful sight to see. Bright beams of light shine out from
the empty spot in her head. The facemasks talk to Bob: "Guardian, you
have removed the only thing that keeps her power in check".
Dot has to hurry, as everything is going back to normal. Enzo's
ability to hold her up fails before she gets to the Paint command, but
Frisket is back to normal size, and carries her the rest of the way.
Dot clicks on the "L", breaking the link to the virtual copy on Hex's
Lair.
This upsets Bob, who hasn't put Hex back together yet. He calls for
Glitch, and it flys to his arm. Bob commands the multitalented tool to
"close file", then do a "copy and paste". The masks thank him as they
return to her body. Hexadecimal is alive but in shock, curled up in a
fetal position, quivering. Bob tells the others that Hex is in a bad
way, but is getting the best help he could get for her. Mike the TV
will be blathering at her until she pulls out of her comatose state.
References
The code number for this episode is 9504. Did anyone spot it?
* SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 are two standards for connecting disk and tape
drives to a computer.
* Keeper of the Core - the central part of Mainframe and an apple
core.
The paintings and artistic styles:
* 3 guards - Picasso, Edward Munch: The Scream, DaVinci: Mona Lisa.
* Vertical stripes (blue, red, blue) is "Voices of Fire". The
National Gallery in Ottawa paid $1.8 million Canadian dollars for
that in 1990. It is about 20 feet tall and was painted by Barnett
Newman is an American. (A sarcastic duplicate titled "Voices of
Ire" is in the University of Alberta, a farmer created a protest
copy with a paint roller and left it in a wheat field.
* Hex's portraits - Matisse, Van Goh.
* Principal Office - the Sistine Chapel's "Adam touches God" (by
Michaelangelo.
* Statue - The Thinker, by Rodin
* Monet
* Mondrain style colored squares on two of the towers.
* Phong with a green apple as a head is Rene Magritte.
* Enzo in the vid windows ala David Hockney's Polaroid photo
montage.
* Wavy, swirling skies from several Van Gogh paintings. (Starry
Night, Sunflowers.)
* DNA double helix (from Mother Nature)
* Andy Worhol
* Keith Haring
* Jackson Pollock
* Georgia O'Keefe
* Roy Lichtenstein (large comic book panels, sliding down the
painting of brush strokes)
* Monet's Waterlilies mapped onto the pavement
* Kenny Scharf
* Melting watches - "Persistance of Memory" by Salvador Dali
* Rembrant painted more self-portraits than any other artist.
* White cube with stylized people and dog = Toyota minivan ad
Did You Notice
* "Too bad Bob and Mike didn't have a SCSI terminator handy. (Wayne
Morris, mor...@magic.mb.ca)
* Some of the cardboard cutouts of Bob have Glitch, some don't.
* The Hex masks treat Bob as a peer, not a nemisis, and even say
"Thank You."
* After her mask is returned, Hex has a blank "nobody's home" face.
* Hex likes chaotic randomness; Mike the TV is able to provide that
sort of comforting input to her as she recovers.
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Scott Mankey
: Smith and O'Halloran wrote:
: >
<snip>
: > * White cube with stylized people and dog = Toyota minivan ad
: I would like to find the artist's name who originated that style. My
: kids tell me he died of AIDS.
That would be Keith Haring.
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Scott
Craig English
holding a camera but the other cutouts had their hands in the position of
holding a camera.