"It's a slow burn story focusing on both the politics of ASYNC and the United States government, as well as the otherworldly, confusing functions of the complex, or The Backrooms." His videos tell the story of a shadowy organization, called ASYNC, which in the late 1980s opens a portal connecting the real world to The Backrooms. "I came across the original image on my computer … and I just thought, huh, it would be interesting to see if I could go to my 3D software, Blender, and try to recreate a scene in this environment," Parsons told ABC Audio.
His collection of short films have netted tens of millions of views on YouTube, most of which he made using the free online CGI software "Blender." Kane Parsons, a high school senior who goes by "Kane Pixels" online, is one of the most popular Backrooms creators. "This original image prompted an original story," Culp said, "which kind of conjured almost an entire universe of inspiration for people engaging in, you know, writing, cinema, art, video game making, illustration, even music and soundscapes." The photo inspired another anonymous user to write a short caption, imagining what it would be like to find oneself in The Backrooms, "where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in."
"A lot of these writers - young creators and writers and artists that are engaging with liminal spaces and The Backrooms talk about that being a formative … experience of liminality."
"If you've ever been at your high school after hours, like after a sports game or something, and it's empty, there's sort of this really strange sense," Culp said. Another common liminal space Culp cites is a high school after classes end for the day. "This is the normal space, that is somehow now estranged, because it's not doing its normal function" Culp said.Įmpty airport lounges or hotel lobbies are examples of liminal spaces - places that are normally bustling with people that for some reason have been abandoned. It's a feeling Culp says has to do with our relationship to what are known as "liminal spaces." But one thing is for sure - the image conjures a very specific kind of feeling in many who look at it. The original post doesn't contain any information about when or where the picture was taken, or who took it.
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