Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Damon, Carlton and a Polar Bear: Water-Cooler Moments (Frames 6-10)


A collaboration between Ronie Midfew Arts and Damon, Carlton and a Polar Bear made it possible for sixteen world renown designers and artists to create original, signed and numbered screen prints representing LOST water-cooler moments.  Less than 200 of each were made available to the public for purchase and all have been sold.  However, over at DCAAPB there is one last remaining “?” frame.  This is the mysterious Frame 16.  You will have to be clever to find the key which unlocks it’s secret.  Click on the HUB image to see previous frame reveal clues.  If you are still confused, check out The Lost ARGs blog for a closer look this fan-appreciation ARG.  Here are Frames 6-10 and the water-cooler moments they represent.


Jason Munn for the 4-toed Statue filled Frame 6 on September 23.  An elegant and simple depiction of the lower half of Tawaret, Egyptian mother goddess and protector of women during child birth.  The golden platform and foot are viewed in silhouette and determining the number of toes is left to your imagination.  There are further instructions: “Image above gold foot printed in gloss, can only be seen from certain angles and in certain lighting.” Ah, ha! two versions of Tawaret depending on your point of view and lighting scheme.  As mungonna posted at The Lost Args, “I like the eye movement or direction of flow of the Statue..its all up and back in time, thereby establishing a ” connection” between us of today and early civilized folks..The nature of the statue is of Hope,,and that is what connects us. That is the means of Eternal Life that the Ankh represents . . “  As for the water-cooler moment, Sayid’s binocular view elicited this comment, “I don’t know what is more disquieting—the fact that the rest of the statue is missing, or that it has four toes” (Live Together, Die Alone).  From the deck of Our Mutual Friend, the island now seemed timeless.



Warning: Frame 7 The Smoke Monster is not for the faint of heart.  Please view with caution.  Ken Taylor, Australian illustrator extraordinaire, wowed us with his rendition of an encounter with Smokey - full moon, blood-red trees and bright-green foliage screened on black paper.  Smokey is swirling in black and gold as it analyzes club-carrying Eko.  The Smoke Monster has the honor of being the first water-cooler moment in LOST, Pilot, Part 1.  He makes lovely clickity-clackity sounds and toots his ‘quit’n time’ horn when riled.  No doubt, this is a killing ‘machine’ forged beneath the island.



The half-way point in our series was reach with the reveal of Frame 8 Kevin Tong’s The Hatch, a study in the surreal, an island floating above a surface of water, the “hatch” eye, the cogs and gears of man filling the background. The Latin phrase “deus ex machina” (god from the machine) is inscribed below the floating island.  The Hatch gives us much to ponder. Is the discovery of the Swan Station hatch and it’s inhabitant, just a plot device “dropped onto the stage” to progress Locke’s story? Who’s manning the crane?  Or should we be focused on the illumination of John Locke by an interior light redirected.  Deus Ex Machine ends with a Locke’s flashback.  He is pounding on his car in disappointment after a failed attempt to confront his father.  Similarly, back on the island John is pounding on the hatch door having failed in his understanding of what the island demands, “I’ve done everything you wanted me to do, so why did you do this to me?”



Communication, or lack thereof, has driven many LOST fans to madness.  But none so mad as Danielle Rousseau.  The voice of a young Rousseau is picked up on the radio repeating over and over in Pilot, Part 2.  “If anybody can hear this, they are dead.” Given this as his subject, Dan McCarthy creates Rousseaus’ Transmission for Frame 9.  Our six intrepid characters stand dwarfed against layers of island mountains.  A lonely tower stands in the distance.  These figures are so deftly drawn that you can distinguish each as they listening to Shannon’s translation.  Her quote bubble reads “Jes suis seul cette ile . . . ils sont tous morts.”  “I am alone on this island . . . they all died.”  Not exactly what we hear in Pilot, Part 2, but close.  Charlie Pace utters the words we were all thinking, “Guys, where are we?”



Beep. Beep. Beep. The fate of the world lies in the dutiful input of numbers by human hands into an antiquated computer - faith and science in harmony.  Rob Jones combines the symbols of the countdown timer, two I-Ching symbols, a white swan and a pattern of waves in his interpretation of The Swan Station for Frame 10.   I-Ching Ko (lake above flame below) represents change, upheaval and new situations where one is urged to ‘go with the flow.”  The I-Ching K’an (water above water below) urges one not to abandon principles, to remain true to your beliefs.  To push or not to push was the question of the day in One of Them, Season 2.



Thank you ReverendMilo for permission to use your photographs for this article.  Next up: Water-Cooler Moments Frames 11-15.


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