Goodbye Kiss for Camera (Wonderland Addendum)

Addendum to Wonderland III;

Anonymous said...

I've read your posts and i think i follow you.
I still don't understand what the point is.
Am I missing something?

October 10, 2009 5:52 PM

the puzzle [piece] is icing on the cake

Anonymous- I know exactly what you mean. In fact, it was my own search for a "point" that inspired this research. After my discovery of synchromysticism [via the Comic Book Cycle], I tried desperately to share it with those around me. Whenever I was able to get someone to suspend disbelief long enough to follow the logic, without fail, your question was the first one they'd ask. What's the point?

In a word: context.

Without the context of a Third Eye, the L'oreal advertisement above is just a picture of a pop star seemingly very happy with her makeup. Context is the envelope in which messages reach us, and how we make sense of them... how we see the "point" of them. My last "addendum" was Speechless: Medium is Message. As I see it, context is the medium, and therefore is the true message.

On this blog, I try to point out the prevalence of symbols and archetypes most of us see in media, and find the meaning within their context. For example, one of the first patterns outlined here was the Woman in Red [waaay back in Mother/Mater/Matter]. I got The Matrix's message about the system and distraction, but I just felt there was more.

Once I dug past the obvious surface context of the red dress representing sex and temptation, the symbol came to point towards the sacred feminine as a connection to the inner drives and passions at the core of humanity. Looking deeper, I found patterns involving Red Riding Hood that connected those inner drives to intuition [here]. That path led me to new ideas about psychic mediums, and soon enough I found myself at Medium is Message, and right back to the Woman in Red.

Mad Men, Season 1, Episode 6, "Babylon"

"To deny our own impulses is to deny
the very thing that makes us human."
-Mouse, in defense of the Woman in Red


Madonna's Red Queen Wedding Dress


see wonderland 3


peep the doll; more on that later

A large part of the "point" of all this is to tap into the intuition/impulse of the reader to sense the depth of context behind a pattern; to get a reader/listener to begin asking themselves "what's the point" of the coincidences he/she is already aware of.

Sometimes, it doesn't take much to get the subconscious alarms going...

Lady GaGa was escorted to the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards by Kermit the Frog. As she exited her limousine, she turned back, leaned in, and in a perfect paparazzi moment, kissed Kermit on his velvety lime-green puppet lips. Another pop star trying desperately to be seen? Definitely. However, it didn't take long for appropriate patterns to start begging questions...

This holiday season, Disney will be releasing a 2-D animated film featuring the first-ever black Disney Princess. I can find plenty of reasons to be offended by this film, but first among them is the fact that Princess Tiana had to make out with an amphibian to get on the squad. The original well-known fairy tale is a Brothers Grimm story, and has no discernible connection to African American culture. Could this questionable move by Disney and Lady GaGa's red carpet stunt simply be coincidence?

Doubtful.

Lady GaGa going green


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VxFJCutYrU

This is where that feeling comes in. I'm beginning to learn that when the splinter comes, it's not long before the pattern in question reaches back into previous explorations.

Anika Rose and her doll alter-ego

The actress voicing Disney's new princess is Anika Noni Rose. Anika's last major film role was alongside Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls. Her appearance here completes the trinity; Jennifer Hudson's role in The Secret Life of Bees [mentioned here] paved the way to the Bee-yonce patterns due to the duo's Academy Award performance in twin red dresses.

http://thepatternist.blogspot.com/2009/03/thebeeyonceknowles.html

http://thepatternist.blogspot.com/2009/08/wonderland-part-2-entering-bizarro.html

Now all three dreamgirls have appeared at The Patternist, and all three brought their own context to the table. In addition to the fact that her last name is Rose, Anika starred in a stage production of Carmen Jones, a play mentioned here in Beyonce's connection to the Woman in Red in the(Bee)yoncé(Know)les.

King Henry VIII's favorite ship was called The Mary Rose

The Princess and The Frog (which is a Bizarro world reversal of the original story's title, The Frog Prince) is set in New Orleans, so naturally the storyline will be drenched in sugar-coated nods to the vodou culture kept alive there by the descendants of African slaves; the main villain is a witch doctor and our main character gets guidance from a blind seer-mother. The vodou angle points to the previously-covered concepts of channeling, possession and the female medium (oracle-seer), and also resonates with the use of vodou dolls in Coraline [discussed briefly in Wonderland 2] and 9.

Here it is again. I feel there is more significance to the patterns of dolls and embodied spirit as they relate to the Wonderland series; my image search turned up more than a few interesting examples. Most notably there were some strange connections involving dolls, spirits and the wedding dress mentioned at the beginning of Wonderland 3...

The Corpse Bride; living dolls playing dead people


Jennifer Tilly gets reverse-possessed to get Mary'd

...but unless I want to keep writing all night, this is another digression that will have to get glossed over. These images just serve as further confirmation that Lady GaGa's place in the pattern is not without merit, and that her outlandish VMA outfits are somehow significant. In context.

In sharp contrast to the wedding dress, GaGa's kermit-kissing red carpet outfit consisted of an full-length feathered black gown and a gold mask covering half of her face.

P!nk and Kylie Minogue (again) half-masked

What is the deal with the pattern of the left eye? Ever since I started paying attention to the symbolism associated with pop stars, I keep seeing this imagery; one eye covered, or one eye emphasized... I see this as connected to the idea of a medium, perhaps as a representation of the strange relationship between medium and content, but this is one pattern -for example- that I feel has deeper context than I now see.

But, I digress.

EDIT: just had to add this...

I always thought there was something strange about Kermit and Miss Piggy...

Black Star Messiah

"There is much talk in the websites I visit about Obama being a Tool of the New World Order (NWO). Perhaps, I don't know, but it seems clear from 'their' - in the end [they] always being the True Self - symbolism and resonance that any Illuminati types, whether they know it or not, are in actuality serving Being."

-Jake Koetz, The Blob
Black Star, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008

Obama/Lincoln rainbow streetart in Boston

Anybody who was fortunate enough to see Barack Obama speak at the 2004 democratic national convention - his proverbial political birth - could not have denied the massive swell of unexpected energy the Illinois senator brought forth in that convention hall. The convention was held in Boston, Massachusets, where just three years earlier, American Airlines Flight 11 departed before it was reportedly hijacked and later crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center...

...and where four years later, the Boston Celtics - resonating the celtic green man - would win the 2008 NBA Finals against the dynastic L.A. Lakers. Obama himself resonates the celtic incarnation of Spring ideologically as a symbol of America's post-Bush era rebirth, a modern-era Robin Hood, and as a proponent of the new Green Movement...

"Found in many cultures around the world, the Green Man is often related to natural vegetative deities springing up in different cultures throughout the ages. Primarily it is interpreted as a symbol of rebirth, or "renaissance," representing the cycle of growth each spring. Many see the Green Man as being connected to Osiris, Odin and even the Christian Jesus, as well as later folkloric characters such as the Puck(Pan), Tolkien's Green Knight, Robin Hood and Peter Pan, who enters the civilized world from a nether land, clothed in green leaves."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Man

After graduating from Columbia (Isis) University, Obama attended Boston's Harvard University and began his rise to BlackStar-dom as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. In 2000 (KK), Barack suffered his first major political loss to former black panther Robert "Bobby" Rush (2112/42/RR/dark lion), and in 2004, he beat GOP senatorial candidate Jack Ryan (resonating Harrison Ford's Tom Clancy character) amid controversy surrounding his 1999 divorce with actress Jeri Ryan, known for playing Star Trek Voyager's ex-Borg Seven of Nine (and one of Dracula's 3 brides in Dracula 2000). After his 2004 DNC performance, there was no stopping his celestial ascent. There were, however, a few speedbumps...

His greatest political limelight came during his 2008 campaign against the entitled ego of Hillary R. Clinton (honeybee/snow queen/sacrificial lamb). During the primary slugfest, Obama almost fell out of favor after right-wing media outlets saturated tv-cubes with clips from sermons of a personal family friend of mine, Rev. Jeremiah wRight (RR/dark lion/angry black man [hebrew transl: Yirmiyahu;"Jehovah will rise"]), the longtime pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ. The media portrayed -and most people saw- the Wright controversy as a negative for Obama, but the story garnered more attention for Obama than any of his positive coverage ever could. Could this over hyped headline [along with the fisticuffs with Queen Clinton] have been a calculated tactic rather than than random opportunism? or maybe something deeper...

Wright and Steve Harvey demonstrating the fraternity hand signal of Omega Psi Phi...


Does that fraternal hand signal resemble eagle wings to you?


the royal color scheme of the Lakers

Despite absorbing almost constant attacks in his presidential campaign versus mr roboto John McCain, at noon today, Barack Obama was sworn in as the first black president of the United States. Among the conspiracy theory blogosphere, the popular view is to paint Obama as one in a line of the NWO bloodline, the anti-christ, a false prophet here to unite the huddled masses under a banner of false hope (note: false hope is a contradiction in terms, as is false change).

But that, to me seems to be the easy way out.

I prefer soundlessdawn's rarely-discussed perspective; Obama is an unpainted piece on the chess board, not yet dark or light in the cosmic sense, while simultaneously both dark and light literally - being ethnically half-black and half white - and politically - having the potential for great grassroots-level motivation and organization, and for messianic hypnosis at the service of the forces subtly pushing for a one-world police state. The question - as the Matrix Reloaded (random re-watch) showed me recently - is paradoxically both one of choice and causality. This is where Will Smith, the original Neo/One/Messiah, enters the pattern...

-more to come-