None More Pink
June 2, 2023 2:32 PM Subscribe
“Dreamhouses assume that you never have anything you wish was private." Architectural Digest ventures inside the set of an upcoming movie you may have heard of, a "Fuchsia Fantasy" inspired by Palm Springs midcentury modernism which apparently caused an international run on the fluorescent shade of Rosco paint.
He picks up a brush and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town
posted by clavdivs at 2:51 PM on June 2, 2023 [7 favorites]
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town
posted by clavdivs at 2:51 PM on June 2, 2023 [7 favorites]
I would like to attend a party in that set, apparently a whole set of houses not just one, and would loathe spending a night there and waking up to all that pink in the morning.
posted by hippybear at 2:51 PM on June 2, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 2:51 PM on June 2, 2023 [3 favorites]
Never underestimate the power of a big budget film to stretch global supply lines with strange requests.
I worked on The Revenant up in Alberta and The Hatefull Eight was shooting in Colorado. It was a dry winter on the eastern slopes and they had the same issue as us, no snow, a bit of a problem for winter pictures.
As a result our buyers proceeded fight to purchase all the movie snow in North America. All of it. Unfortunately the Tarantino buyers were faster and cornered the market. Which is how I ended up spending two weeks of my life feeding a 53' trailers worth of starch packing peanuts through a gas powered mulching leafblower, collecting it in bags, and filling up two semi trailers worth of brand new ready for the screen movie snow, which I don't think ever got used.
Work in film they said, experience the glamour of mulching peanuts in an abandoned RV dealerships parking lot.
posted by Pink Fuzzy Bunny at 3:17 PM on June 2, 2023 [111 favorites]
I worked on The Revenant up in Alberta and The Hatefull Eight was shooting in Colorado. It was a dry winter on the eastern slopes and they had the same issue as us, no snow, a bit of a problem for winter pictures.
As a result our buyers proceeded fight to purchase all the movie snow in North America. All of it. Unfortunately the Tarantino buyers were faster and cornered the market. Which is how I ended up spending two weeks of my life feeding a 53' trailers worth of starch packing peanuts through a gas powered mulching leafblower, collecting it in bags, and filling up two semi trailers worth of brand new ready for the screen movie snow, which I don't think ever got used.
Work in film they said, experience the glamour of mulching peanuts in an abandoned RV dealerships parking lot.
posted by Pink Fuzzy Bunny at 3:17 PM on June 2, 2023 [111 favorites]
Adds Spencer: “She is the ultimate feminist icon.”
One of the designers feeling a little puckish, I see.
posted by Going To Maine at 3:25 PM on June 2, 2023 [3 favorites]
One of the designers feeling a little puckish, I see.
posted by Going To Maine at 3:25 PM on June 2, 2023 [3 favorites]
Wow, I want to know much more about Barbie set design. I guess I'll have to see the movie.
posted by mumimor at 3:34 PM on June 2, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by mumimor at 3:34 PM on June 2, 2023 [1 favorite]
Imagine if the world ran out of something traditionally coded as masculine -- I'm not sure what, maybe camo print
When Peter Jackson made "Braindead", he temporarily exhausted the world's supply of fake blood.
posted by riotnrrd at 3:35 PM on June 2, 2023 [7 favorites]
When Peter Jackson made "Braindead", he temporarily exhausted the world's supply of fake blood.
posted by riotnrrd at 3:35 PM on June 2, 2023 [7 favorites]
all the movie snow in North America
I call dibs on this for the title of a novel
posted by chavenet at 3:59 PM on June 2, 2023 [11 favorites]
I call dibs on this for the title of a novel
posted by chavenet at 3:59 PM on June 2, 2023 [11 favorites]
Pink was originally coded as masculine.
posted by njohnson23 at 4:04 PM on June 2, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by njohnson23 at 4:04 PM on June 2, 2023 [3 favorites]
+1 for the title reference!
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:10 PM on June 2, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:10 PM on June 2, 2023 [3 favorites]
Is the Barbie Dreamhouse you grew up with always the best Barbie Dreamhouse? Because aesthetically, I can appreciate the latest version, but this three story townhouse with the yellow elevator (that our mom would never buy us) will always be the perfect Dreamhouse for me. It wasn’t all that pink, either.
They just opened a Malibu Barbie café in NYC to tie in with this. I can’t imagine wanting to eat there, but I’m definitely intrigued to have a look in. I’m looking forward to seeing the movie - but I’m not sure yet if I’ll be able to get anyone in my house to go with me.
Excellent post title, by the way. Along with the obvious, it also reminds me of Anish Kapoor’s black vs. the Pinkest Pink.
posted by Mchelly at 4:12 PM on June 2, 2023 [5 favorites]
They just opened a Malibu Barbie café in NYC to tie in with this. I can’t imagine wanting to eat there, but I’m definitely intrigued to have a look in. I’m looking forward to seeing the movie - but I’m not sure yet if I’ll be able to get anyone in my house to go with me.
Excellent post title, by the way. Along with the obvious, it also reminds me of Anish Kapoor’s black vs. the Pinkest Pink.
posted by Mchelly at 4:12 PM on June 2, 2023 [5 favorites]
Anish Kumar better not even think of looking in this thread, that's for sure.
E, fb
posted by Carillon at 4:32 PM on June 2, 2023 [5 favorites]
E, fb
posted by Carillon at 4:32 PM on June 2, 2023 [5 favorites]
all the movie snow in North America
Hey, a new nominee for my list!
posted by Rash at 5:02 PM on June 2, 2023 [3 favorites]
Hey, a new nominee for my list!
posted by Rash at 5:02 PM on June 2, 2023 [3 favorites]
BTW, we don't have a word for pink in our language. We have lyserødt, which is pale red, but doesn't describe pink.
posted by mumimor at 5:04 PM on June 2, 2023 [8 favorites]
posted by mumimor at 5:04 PM on June 2, 2023 [8 favorites]
From the main link:
I think it makes sense to have the movie barbies all living in the same dreamhouses, since the whole commercial push would always be the current versions of barbie. It would be neat to have that level of production design create neighborhoods from various eras of barbie homes, each version reflecting "a weird jumble of what people wanted, what people actually had, and what people were supposed to want, all of it filtered through children’s great love of everything over-the-top."
posted by the primroses were over at 5:04 PM on June 2, 2023 [3 favorites]
Neither she [production designer Sarah Greenwood] nor Spencer had ever owned a Barbie before, so they ordered a Dreamhouse off Amazon to study. “The scale was quite strange,” recalls Spencer, explaining how they adjusted its rooms’ quirky proportions to 23 percent smaller than human size for the set. Says Gerwig: “The ceiling is actually quite close to one’s head, and it only takes a few paces to cross the room. It has the odd effect of making the actors seem big in the space but small overall.”I had a barbie house as a child (thanks overly indulgent grandparents!) and the scale seemed better for our gerbils than our barbies.
I think it makes sense to have the movie barbies all living in the same dreamhouses, since the whole commercial push would always be the current versions of barbie. It would be neat to have that level of production design create neighborhoods from various eras of barbie homes, each version reflecting "a weird jumble of what people wanted, what people actually had, and what people were supposed to want, all of it filtered through children’s great love of everything over-the-top."
posted by the primroses were over at 5:04 PM on June 2, 2023 [3 favorites]
If you ever have the chance to stay at the Trixie Motel, the courtyard and pool come close to the same feeling of the Dreamhouse set.
posted by lizard music at 5:34 PM on June 2, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by lizard music at 5:34 PM on June 2, 2023 [2 favorites]
'All the Movie Snow in North America'
posted by clavdivs at 7:14 PM on June 2, 2023 [4 favorites]
chapter 10.
.... "no that's not right garold, there's a great difference between a steeple Jack and a chimney sweep sure chimney sweep you can see all from the roof and get inside the house but a steeple Jack a steeple Jack he can put it all back together again. it's about getting high."
Midwinter slush on the lake parted as the last days ore boat pulled into Tawas. diverting the attention of the third mechanic, Garold slipped out the door proceeded to the hatch of the gang plank. a diversion, the mind narrows, the heart beats desire greed patience, the three virtues of the Big Deal. Vita-rolla pictures was paying for it so why not and for 10 seconds, garold be famous. With the camera set up, Charlie, smoking a cigar gauged like a clarinet, stumps the matter of factly,
"...picture is goinna be a cool million I hear, say, look, Relish and Stevie want to go over to the picture show set maybe get a glimpse of the Stars"
"too cold"
"yeah well don't forget about the #3 mast and get that winch oiled and tightened before you leave this boat"
Is there more snow in Bay City?"
"no kid, this is all the movie snow in North America."
The wind always picks up when someone walks away and is left alone, Garold slowly loosens his jacket. stretch of the harness, lite snow begins to fall. Looks at his watch.
slowly the doors on number hatch four open, garold goes through the radio shack.
"Hey Gar"
"Bob, need to batten."
you want your door number two, turn left start climbing to the the roof, attach tether to an eye hook and slowly up, the red light slowly blinked as he approached it, look down once and see the green light from the shack, a message and he climbs.
There Comes a time in every person's life. Something just gives and the leap he took 40 ft high became a kind of pirouette, a grace with no grace, no motion pictures, and one camera, no other witness or artiface to note the leap into last artificial snow for 700 miles.
it was the silent picture and Garold wenched himself out. No one the wiser.
.... "no that's not right garold, there's a great difference between a steeple Jack and a chimney sweep sure chimney sweep you can see all from the roof and get inside the house but a steeple Jack a steeple Jack he can put it all back together again. it's about getting high."
Midwinter slush on the lake parted as the last days ore boat pulled into Tawas. diverting the attention of the third mechanic, Garold slipped out the door proceeded to the hatch of the gang plank. a diversion, the mind narrows, the heart beats desire greed patience, the three virtues of the Big Deal. Vita-rolla pictures was paying for it so why not and for 10 seconds, garold be famous. With the camera set up, Charlie, smoking a cigar gauged like a clarinet, stumps the matter of factly,
"...picture is goinna be a cool million I hear, say, look, Relish and Stevie want to go over to the picture show set maybe get a glimpse of the Stars"
"too cold"
"yeah well don't forget about the #3 mast and get that winch oiled and tightened before you leave this boat"
Is there more snow in Bay City?"
"no kid, this is all the movie snow in North America."
The wind always picks up when someone walks away and is left alone, Garold slowly loosens his jacket. stretch of the harness, lite snow begins to fall. Looks at his watch.
slowly the doors on number hatch four open, garold goes through the radio shack.
"Hey Gar"
"Bob, need to batten."
you want your door number two, turn left start climbing to the the roof, attach tether to an eye hook and slowly up, the red light slowly blinked as he approached it, look down once and see the green light from the shack, a message and he climbs.
There Comes a time in every person's life. Something just gives and the leap he took 40 ft high became a kind of pirouette, a grace with no grace, no motion pictures, and one camera, no other witness or artiface to note the leap into last artificial snow for 700 miles.
it was the silent picture and Garold wenched himself out. No one the wiser.
posted by clavdivs at 7:14 PM on June 2, 2023 [4 favorites]
Describing an utterly objectified consumerist product as "the ultimate feminist" is so ridiculous I'm not even offended.
we don't have a word for pink in our language. We have lyserødt, which is pale red, but doesn't describe pink.
"Pink" itself has made inroads for the kind of neon fluorescent intensity like in the pictures in the article. I always think of lyserød as paler, more pastel-ey, and that's how I tend to see the terms used by others as well.
posted by Dysk at 10:06 PM on June 2, 2023 [2 favorites]
we don't have a word for pink in our language. We have lyserødt, which is pale red, but doesn't describe pink.
"Pink" itself has made inroads for the kind of neon fluorescent intensity like in the pictures in the article. I always think of lyserød as paler, more pastel-ey, and that's how I tend to see the terms used by others as well.
posted by Dysk at 10:06 PM on June 2, 2023 [2 favorites]
Has the term "hot pink" fallen out of use? I would think of that more than fuschia.
posted by Rhedyn at 11:40 PM on June 2, 2023 [8 favorites]
posted by Rhedyn at 11:40 PM on June 2, 2023 [8 favorites]
It would never occur to me to describe any of those shades of pink as fuschia, which I picture to be darker and more intense than those.
posted by newpotato at 1:46 AM on June 3, 2023 [9 favorites]
posted by newpotato at 1:46 AM on June 3, 2023 [9 favorites]
BTW, we don't have a word for pink in our language. We have lyserødt, which is pale red, but doesn't describe pink.
The word for pink in Portuguese is "cor-de-rosa" which is "rose colored" and therefore not really definitely pink.
They do make rosé wine, though. A-and Lisbon has a "Pink Street" which used to be the red light district, but I guess that faded.
posted by chavenet at 4:18 AM on June 3, 2023 [2 favorites]
The word for pink in Portuguese is "cor-de-rosa" which is "rose colored" and therefore not really definitely pink.
They do make rosé wine, though. A-and Lisbon has a "Pink Street" which used to be the red light district, but I guess that faded.
posted by chavenet at 4:18 AM on June 3, 2023 [2 favorites]
I tend to think of hot pink as very akin to process magenta. Fuchsia is hard to spell until you remember that it's named after a man named Fuchs.
And the world ran out of pink yarn for a while in the run-up to the first Women's March of the Trump administration.
posted by rikschell at 4:27 AM on June 3, 2023 [4 favorites]
And the world ran out of pink yarn for a while in the run-up to the first Women's March of the Trump administration.
posted by rikschell at 4:27 AM on June 3, 2023 [4 favorites]
There Comes a time in every person's life. Something just gives and the leap he took 40 ft high became a kind of pirouette, a grace with no grace, no motion pictures, and one camera, no other witness or artiface to note the leap into last artificial snow for 700 miles.
I would totally read this whole novel
posted by chavenet at 5:07 AM on June 3, 2023 [2 favorites]
I would totally read this whole novel
posted by chavenet at 5:07 AM on June 3, 2023 [2 favorites]
Describing an utterly objectified consumerist product as "the ultimate feminist" is so ridiculous I'm not even offended.
They're talking about Barbie-the-character not Barbie-the-product. Though "is Barbie-the-character feminist?" is a whole nother debate. Anyway someone bought me Forever Barbie at a formative age not realizing it was a serious text of cultural criticism and now it's a shame it appears to be out of print or hasn't been revised for the launch of this movie.
posted by muddgirl at 5:23 AM on June 3, 2023 [2 favorites]
They're talking about Barbie-the-character not Barbie-the-product. Though "is Barbie-the-character feminist?" is a whole nother debate. Anyway someone bought me Forever Barbie at a formative age not realizing it was a serious text of cultural criticism and now it's a shame it appears to be out of print or hasn't been revised for the launch of this movie.
posted by muddgirl at 5:23 AM on June 3, 2023 [2 favorites]
Malibu Barbie Dreamhouse with the car elevator is objectively the best Barbie Dreamhouse.
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 5:49 AM on June 3, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 5:49 AM on June 3, 2023 [1 favorite]
The Rosco brand of paint is specifically manufactured for the scenic art industry; that is, it's made for theatre and set painting. The opacity is deeper than regular house paints, and they stay fairly flexible even though they're all matte finish. They reflect light differently than house paints, so they're better to light on a stage or a set.
I ran a crew for a Robert Wilson world premiere opera where we just plowed through their florescents like there was no tomorrow. For some reason, his design interns were fairly terrible at picturing a set when it wasn't on a digital screen, so everything had to be brighter, brighter, brighter. That was an expensive show.
Barbie seems like such a huge use of such a specialized paint that it wouldn't be too hard to plow through the main supply of it. Last summer, supply lines were so messed up worldwide that only about three colors out of their normal 27 choices could be hunted down at one point.
posted by lauranesson at 7:28 AM on June 3, 2023 [14 favorites]
I ran a crew for a Robert Wilson world premiere opera where we just plowed through their florescents like there was no tomorrow. For some reason, his design interns were fairly terrible at picturing a set when it wasn't on a digital screen, so everything had to be brighter, brighter, brighter. That was an expensive show.
Barbie seems like such a huge use of such a specialized paint that it wouldn't be too hard to plow through the main supply of it. Last summer, supply lines were so messed up worldwide that only about three colors out of their normal 27 choices could be hunted down at one point.
posted by lauranesson at 7:28 AM on June 3, 2023 [14 favorites]
there's an irony in physicalizing vaporwave aesthetics
bisexual lighting brought to you by Phillips Hue
posted by snuffleupagus at 9:56 AM on June 3, 2023 [4 favorites]
bisexual lighting brought to you by Phillips Hue
posted by snuffleupagus at 9:56 AM on June 3, 2023 [4 favorites]
Part of me wants this movie to be even more heavily marketed, Batman (1989) style, with like theme parks and making-of books and McDonald's Kids Meal tie-ins and everything, only to fail spectacularly at the box office and be completely forgotten about, so that decades from now people in vintage shops keep stumbling across the inexplicable plastic detritus of this total cultural non-event, a kitsch simulacrum of a kitsch simulacrum, all in the exact same shade of hot pink.
Or better yet, imagine driving your armored dune buggy over the crumbling highways of what used to be Southern California and coming across the ruins of a motel designed to look exactly like this movie set....
posted by Gerald Bostock at 10:12 AM on June 3, 2023 [2 favorites]
Or better yet, imagine driving your armored dune buggy over the crumbling highways of what used to be Southern California and coming across the ruins of a motel designed to look exactly like this movie set....
posted by Gerald Bostock at 10:12 AM on June 3, 2023 [2 favorites]
would loathe spending a night there and waking up to all that pink in the morning.
I'm not sure that I could fall asleep in a hot pink environment. Dusty rose, on the other hand, I think I could manage; bit more back-to-the-womb-ish.
posted by Halloween Jack at 12:26 PM on June 3, 2023
I'm not sure that I could fall asleep in a hot pink environment. Dusty rose, on the other hand, I think I could manage; bit more back-to-the-womb-ish.
posted by Halloween Jack at 12:26 PM on June 3, 2023
The townhouse Mchelly linked was the one I always coveted. My dolls lived in a house made of leftover ceiling tiles, and they liked it, dammit!
I'm very excited for the upcoming movie, but that article could have used another proofreading or two.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 12:53 PM on June 3, 2023 [1 favorite]
I'm very excited for the upcoming movie, but that article could have used another proofreading or two.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 12:53 PM on June 3, 2023 [1 favorite]
The marketing for this movie is extremely good, I'm seeing it everywhere online but never as a straight trailer or plea to see the movie, always as an interesting article or meme. I Am Target Audience.
posted by subdee at 11:38 PM on June 3, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by subdee at 11:38 PM on June 3, 2023 [1 favorite]
There is a trailer, though, and I find it delightful. Barbie and Ken's mug shots from 1:40 are already being imitated all over the web.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 2:08 AM on June 6, 2023
posted by The Underpants Monster at 2:08 AM on June 6, 2023
Margot Robbie Takes You Inside The Barbie Dreamhouse | Architectural Digest
posted by Rhaomi at 11:58 AM on June 17, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Rhaomi at 11:58 AM on June 17, 2023 [1 favorite]
Oh hey, that's the video the Moby Barbie screenshot comes from! (alt. nitter link)
Seriously, I get why people cringe about the corporate ad-ness of this movie, but everything about it is so fun. Production design inspiration from 1950s soundstage musicals. Skipper's treehouse as a heritage site. The wardrobe being inspired by Cher's from Clueless. Gerwig talking about wanting the movie to capture the emotional feel of being a kid in Toys'R'Us and wanting to open all the boxes and touch everything.
I am going to sneak cotton candy into the theatre, and I don't even like cotton candy anymore.
posted by the primroses were over at 5:41 AM on June 18, 2023 [2 favorites]
Seriously, I get why people cringe about the corporate ad-ness of this movie, but everything about it is so fun. Production design inspiration from 1950s soundstage musicals. Skipper's treehouse as a heritage site. The wardrobe being inspired by Cher's from Clueless. Gerwig talking about wanting the movie to capture the emotional feel of being a kid in Toys'R'Us and wanting to open all the boxes and touch everything.
I am going to sneak cotton candy into the theatre, and I don't even like cotton candy anymore.
posted by the primroses were over at 5:41 AM on June 18, 2023 [2 favorites]
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