{"id":15,"date":"2006-12-30T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:42:03","slug":"midnight-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/30\/midnight-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6-es3KUt2BY?si=lq-g-zWmHo3kVxhi\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6-es3KUt2BY\">video<\/a> above was made in the summer of 2005. It has become a substratum for our upcoming show.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/carlwarnick\/338221303\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/149\/338221303_6836a41275.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" alt=\"Card For Dawn and Carl at Dogmatic 2007\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the video Dawn is working on the car at midnight in a parking lot. She has pulled out the left driveaxel shaft and is replacing it&#8217;s CV boots. At a pivotal moment in the film the metal fastener band snaps back and cuts her thumb, filling her glove&#8217;s thumb with blood.<\/p>\n<p>Several things are happening here that are of interest to me. One, the video uses the traditional male gaze of painting. Two, I have given up the masculine privilege of auto work. Three, the climax is a bloody violence, which in the final tally is nothing more than a jump in the heart, a small bandaid, and Dawn finishing the job at hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video above was made in the summer of 2005. It has become a substratum for our upcoming show. In the video Dawn is working on the car at midnight in a parking lot. She has pulled out the left driveaxel shaft and is replacing it&#8217;s CV boots. At a pivotal moment in the film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,20,17,22,18,21,23],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-critical","tag-critique","tag-film","tag-openings","tag-production","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}