number one is a casino table which is also a piano.
well, it used to be a piano then it was gutted and the keyboard was replaced by a synthesizer. a bored man in a tux was playing it while a bored woman in evening gown and pearls was sat on the same piano/card table crooning. meanwhile you can play poker on video screens embedded into the piano.
there was also a middle-aged man in plus-fours doing the sort of self-conscious jerking you see in jazz clubs: like a spastic demonstrating a dance step. it wasn't immediately clear whether he was part of the installation but he seemed to be having a rare old time.
number two is GWHL/paragon's advertising in coinslot.
for reasons best known to themselves, they have booked a prominent dps where marketing has decided to put a giant picture of the cabinet (fine) and a supposed interview where the machine speaks openly about its favourite films (weird). it appears that the paragon's social life is filled with going to the flicks and then reading literature about how much each film has grossed and how many people are in the closing credits.
(the following is a direct quote, straight from the paragon's lips): "size isn't everything and the 1922 the [sic] vampire classic Nosferatu credited a mere 16 people. By contrast, in 2003, The Matrix Revolutions thanked 701."
nowhere in the interview is there any description of new content, terms of sale, specifications, technical information, engineering or the product itself; it just makes clumsy analogies about popular films.
then (and equally unfathomable) the advertorial ends with a question and answer in garbled latin.
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