"The Platinum Raven" teaser - in Arizona the clouds would catch the colours
Teaser for the video-book of Rohan Quine's novella "The Platinum Raven" - teaser 7(iv) "in Arizona the clouds would catch the colours". // The clientele's long-standing ambiguity of male and female began to become more concentrated, as the rest began to diminish by slow degrees, leaving an increasingly hardcore population of fabulous monsters whose very gazes seemed intent on drawing blood. [...] had become, in effect, a drug-den in nightclub drag. // And onwards it barrelled through the months, with its own unique momentum, pulling world-class DJs in and world-class spending in their wake. With all volume limits removed, the pumping of this building's music and the flicker of its sky-sweeping images came to populate the whole grand space: over the desert, in between the aeroplanes in Sharjah, over the labour camp at Sonapur, up through the night-time city sky, and up and out above the Gulf. // Within the air came the echo of a tower-spike to match the Burj Khalifa, made of giant plinks of light and shafts of sound branching upward, hard and colour-smooth and perfect - like the dream of a thousand-storey Dubai skyscraper, pitched like a rocket-launch upon a draftsman's screen with a mega-project soundtrack, to haul in investors. See the tower-spike sprout like an inverse water-spout, up among the mountains; and helter-skelter round its shaft at breakneck speed through the whistling air of night, via software magic, all set to the soundtrack's stunning flash and burst of perfection and echoes... Two voices glance through this world-circling flash and cool of music: first, a yearning woman's murmur rises through a howling wind, "Noémi ... Noémi ... Noémi..."; then that dead, passive, flat super-model voice again, weak and beautiful and affectless and Arizona-damaged, with her fluffy clouds and skies that went on forever, and the clouds would catch the colours - purple and red and yellow and ... on fire. You don't see that - you might still see them in the desert.