wonderland of modernity

Blush

wonderlandofmodernity — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:36:53 +0000

I found this site interesting…here you can see that the final photograph was manipulated…have no idea if it was the intention, but…check the photos out, then the video (the photo shooting) and then make a brief comparison! in one of them, i can see that the shadow reflected on the wall is a bit different from the models body. yeah, yeah, some distortions will always occur, but to me is more like that the model had a fast liposuction operation performed by photoshop! maybe i am wrong?!

www.blushlingerie.com

ps: the ad campaign created by BBDO Germany deserves also to be seen!

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Colors

wonderlandofmodernity — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:29:07 +0000

This magazine was almost a must read(or at least check it out) while I was attending University. Together with the polemic ads produced by Oliviero Toscani for the Italian label “United Colors of Benetton” we used to spend some time analyzing them…all those provocative sometimes censured photographs of Toscani…The years went by and my interest for ads passed through some ups and downs…. Now, researching for my Thesis I`ve just remembered! Toscani used to use only photographs in Benetton´s campaigns! Google…after some clicks…Colors. The magazine. Online Projects that are simply amazing! Each topic a new hot-site. Definitely inspiring as I my intention is to talk about mass media and society. The link to one of the topics I found very interesting!!

Monoculture.… “The American word “OK”, (meaning approval or agreement) is the only word known by more people worldwide than the word “Coke”, according to Coca-Cola Company.”…. and more “amazing” facts. or almost facts….check it out!

Brainstorming – part 1

wonderlandofmodernity — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:37:59 +0000

Back to Carroll´s books… I´ve just decided to concentrate my visual metaphors or inspiration in two topics: food (eat+drink) and identity. Both of them I have as challenge to myself to translate them in a visual work. Photographic working dealing specially with mass media+uses of photography and implications in our life. How I develop this? well, I´m still working on it. Brainstorming… My great challenge is to make a consistent visual(photographic)work but present it in an interesting way… Creative process: very chaotic…. reading, re-reading, doing it again and over and over…Going to Art Galleries, talking to creative people, observing, photographing…. First feasible ideas are just popping-up in my head..but only when it is all ready I can make it public, of course!

Going down the Rabbit-Hole….Seeing through the Looking Glass….Moving on!

Today’s Quote

wonderlandofmodernity — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:12:11 +0000

“Sometimes the reality is the strangest fantasy of all”

quoting Michelangelo Antonioni’s, Blow-up trailer. (1966)

Alice’s Evidence

wonderlandofmodernity — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:38:44 +0000

” `No, no!´, said the Queen. `Sentence first – veredict afterwards.´

`Stuff and nonsense´, said Alice loudly. `The idea of having the sentence first.´”

“`Wake up, Alice dear!´said her sister; `Why, what a long sleep you’ve had.´”

“(…) and thinking of little Alice and all her wonderful Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a fashion (…)”

“So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality (…)”

Who stole the Tarts?

wonderlandofmodernity — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:32:39 +0000

- the King and Queen of Hearts seated on their throne

- White Rabbit

“In the very middle of the court was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it, they looked so good, that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them – (…)”

- court of justice

- the trial

The Lobster Quadrille

wonderlandofmodernity — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:29:50 +0000

- dance

- soup

The Mock Turtle’s Story

wonderlandofmodernity — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:28:56 +0000

” `When I’m a Duchess´, she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), `I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without – maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot tempered´, she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, `and vinegar that makes them sour – and camomile that makes them bitter – and – barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know – ´”

“`Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it´”

“Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the Duchess was very ugly (…) “

“And the moral of that is – `The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.´”

“`Thinking again?´, the Duchess asked, with another dig of her sharp little chin.

`I’ve a right to think´, said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to feel a little worried.

`Just about as much right´, said the Duchess, `as pigs have to fly; and the m –´”

- lessons -> they lessen from day to day

The Queen’s Croquet-ground

wonderlandofmodernity — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:23:41 +0000

“`Would you tell me´, said Alice, a little timidly `why you are painting those roses?´ (…) `The Queen! The Queen! “

- cards

- the King and Queen of Hearts

“`Off with her head! Off–´”

“`How do you like the Queen? said the Cat in a low voice.

`Not at all´, said Alice: `she’s so extremely –´”

“The Queen ha only one way of setting all difficulties, great or small.`Off with his head´she said, without even looking around.”

A Mad Tea-party

wonderlandofmodernity — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:18:47 +0000

- a table set under a tree in front of the house

- March Hare

- the Hatter

- Dormouse

“The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it: `no room! no room!´they cried out when they saw Alice coming. `There’s plenty of room!´said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large armchair at one end of the table.”

- time

” `Suppose we change the subject´, the March Hare interrupted, yawning. `I’m getting tired of this. I vote the young lady tells us a story.´”

“`Take some more tea´, the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.

`I’ve had nothing yet´, Alice replied in an offended tone, `so I can’t take more´.

`You mean you can’t take less´, said the Hatter: `it’s very easy to take more than nothing.´”

- tree with a door

“Once more she founded herself in the long hall, and close to the little glass table(…) and then she founded herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains.”