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part of a fictitious reality created for the purposes of an assignment.
In 2003 a young man by the name of William Cannon came across a small worn brown book while searching through the house of his long deceased grandmother. He had never known his grandmother, he only knew her as the recluse of his family. No one had ever really spoken about her and he had never met her. His mother and him had travelled to her house in Missouri to take whatever belongings she had left behind once she had passed on. She had been dead for well over 5 years but for reasons unbeknownst to William, the remainder of his family had yet to do the job him and his mother had come to finally do.
The small brown book appeared to be a badly kept diary of his grandmother’s, detailing a small chapter in her long life. As he read on William discovered that the stories in the diary seemed more fantasy than reality. His grandmother, Loise Cannon, seemed to have a wild imagination and William began to believe that the book wasn’t really a diary, but more an avenue for Loise to write her fantasies and dreams.
“there was a tall man wearing fancy clothes and a top hat and a cane…there was something not true about him though. It took me a while to notice the long dark brown tail coming out from behind him. He had a tail it was long like it went for metres behind him and it flicked back and forth as he stood”
William went to discard the book entirely as writings of madness until he suddenly noticed a pocket on the inside back of the book. Inside the pocket were twelve photographs, badly kept and aged. Suddenly the man with the impossible tail was proven in the photographs before him. Robert Galloway, also called the Fire Lord, in Loise’s accounts was suddenly possible, several photographs showing flames coming from his hands just as Loise had described. Flicking back through the pages William found that this was a diary of a young girl who was friends with impossible people. He found one entry that gave a date, 1934. These photographs were taken in the Missouri area during the great depression. William also found two entries that related to the photographs, describing the day in which his grandmother took these photographs.
“I found something interesting in town today. Robert says it’s a camera. You take pictures with a camera. I find it sitting on a fencepost. I think it belonged to the man who was arguing with one of the farmers. He was so busy arguing he didn’t notice me take it. I don’t know how to use it. There’s a little number on the top that says eight. Robert says that’s how many photos have been taken and that I should have ten something photos left to take. He says he knows a little about cameras. He taught me a little about it. Tomorrow I’m gonna take photos of my friends”
“Today was fun. I took many photos with the camera I stole. I took photos of everyone together I think I got some photos of Robert and Miriam showing off what they can do.”
These photographs proved to William that these people had existed. He didn’t believe at first, but the photographs gave evidence to Loise’s stories. Miriam Shaw, the woman whose “mind is so powerful that if she thinks about moving something it moves” is shown making a large fallen tree branch hover metres above her head. Robert Galloway has flames that seem to materialise on his hands. The photos depict him lighting cigarettes and making circles of fire with just the movement of his hand. The twins, Lillian and Alice Brown really are physically identical and joined at the hip by flesh and bone. And finally Henry Dawes, the man with the long tail, is no longer a possible fantasy, but a possible man in these photographs.
Of course what I just told is nothing but a story that I have created for the purposes of this assignment. I have shown that with a little education a photographer can use photographs to fool their viewers. It took my inspiration from contemporary photographer Joan Fontcuberta, adopting his technique of imitating ‘evidence’ to better the chances of my fabrication seeming valid. I created the diary to act as complimenting evidence to my photographs. To just present the photographs alone would not tell the story, the diary entries help to comprehend what is being depicted in the photographs. As I demonstrated in the story of William, the diary entries alone would not convince someone entirely of their authenticity. Ever since it’s infancy photography has been considered as the most substantial form of evidence, even after we have been shown the possibilities of manipulation in photographs we as society still deem the photograph to hold the most proof. We are just now a little more wary of whether the content is true or not.
I chose to adopt the snapshot aesthetic into my photographs to better the chance of them being believed. This one here for example is quite out of focus and no one is posed. It is a capture of a moment that these people were apart of. When I was photographing my models I actually didn’t give much direction. I simply told them the story and then gave a brief summary of their characters. They acted out while I moved around photographing them. I think this helped in creating the spontaneity of some of these photos.
I also physically aged these photos as well as the diary I created. Again this was done to make them fit the era they were coming from. If they were shiny prints without creases or dirt you wouldn’t think they were a little girl’s snapshots taken during the depression. You wouldn’t be convinced of the story.
Monster High is an American fashion doll franchise created by Mattel in July, 2010. The characters are inspired by monster movies, sci-fi horror, thriller fiction, and various creatures therefore distinguishing them from most fashion dolls. They were created by Garrett Sander, with illustrations by Kellee Riley.[2]
The Monster High franchise also includes other consumer products such as stationery, bags, key chains, various toys and video games. There are also Monster High TV specials, a web series, a direct to DVD movie, and software. Lisi Harrison is the author of the Monster High books. The characters are depicted as being either related to or as offspring of famous monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, Medusa, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Phantom of the Opera, and zombies and more. The characters are usually referred to as ghouls, rather than girls.
The dolls are approximately 27 cm tall. Or about 1 foot tall. Their bodies are made from ABS plastic. Their heads are made from soft PVC. They have various skin tones (blue, green, pink, brown, etc.) Each character has a unique head mold. No Monster High doll has the same shape head. The type of hair the dolls have is saran. The boys hair is either fuzzy or hard colored plastic. Aside from physical attributes, the dolls are quite different in the characterization of their clothes. And they all have their own unique freaky flaw, hair, etc. They might repeat bags and sunglasses. For example, 13 Wishes Howleen has the same bag as the original Clawdeen only that it is a different color. One is gold and another is purple and black. But they are both sisters. Plus, Howleen likes to borrow a lot of Clawdeen's stuff. And Gloom Beach Frankie Stein has the same sunglasses as the Scaris Frankie Stein. One s blue and one is yellow. All of them have various attributes of the monsters they are related to (i.e. fangs, stitches, wolf ears, fins, bandages,snakes, etc.)[3] Although Monster high and Barbie are from the same creator, Mattel, Monster High is starting to become more popular than Barbie.
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Monster High est une franchise américaine de poupées mannequins lancée par Mattel en juillet 2010 aux États-Unis, tirée d'une série de livres du même nom (de Lisi Harrison). Les personnages sont inspirés de personnes assez monstrueuses issues de la littérature fantastique, de la mythologie, ou encore de films cultes. Les Monster High sont toutes des enfants de monstres (Frankie Stein est la fille de Frankenstein, Draculaura est celle de Dracula, Deuce Gorgon est le fils de Méduse...).
La franchise Monster High se décline sur de très nombreux produits comme des vêtements, des bijoux fantaisie et de la papeterie, mais ses principales ventes se font grâce aux poupées mannequins du même nom. Elle s'accompagne également d'épisodes spéciaux pour la télévision et le marché DVD, et d'une web-série.S
Le concept de Monster High met en scène des adolescents tous descendants de créatures plus ou moins célèbres. Certaines poupées sont relookėes.
Les poupées mannequins mesurent une vingtaine de centimètres ; les garçons sont plus grands que les filles, même s'il existe des différences de taille chez certaines poupées (Twyla et Howleen Wolf sont plus petites, Nefera de Nile et Mme. Santête sont plus grandes...). Les corps (qui comptent de nombreuses articulations) sont fabriqués en plastique ABS et les têtes sont en PVC souple. Chaque personnage bénéficie d'un moule différent pour sa tête. Les cheveux sont en saran ou en kanekalon, voire en PVC pour les garçons dont les cheveux sont, pour la plupart des personnages, moulés. Les poupées filles de Monster High peuvent enlever leurs mains et bras mais les garçons ne peuvent enlever que leurs bras. Lagoona Blue, Rochelle Goyle et C.A. Cupid ont des éléments amovibles que les autres poupées n'ont pas (des nageoires pour Lagoona Blue, des ailes pour Rochelle Goyle et C.A. Cupid). Comme les filles ont des chaussures à talons, elles ne peuvent pas bouger leurs pieds, tandis que les garçons ont les pieds articulés.
Chaque personnage est caractérisé par un style vestimentaire et une gamme de couleurs qui se retrouvent dans différentes collections et qui reflètent leur personnalité dans la web-série.
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Iguazu means " great waters" in the native language.The natives still believe that the waterfalls were created in an outburst of rage of the god who lived in the violent area of the downpour called "GARGANTA do DIABO." ( DEVIL'S THROAT ) The legend says that "his" BEAUTIFUL daughter fell in love with a native Indian; so, to stop this marriage "he" created this HORRENDOUS WATER FALL in front of them while the native was canoeing away with his lover. The native quickly transformed himself into a tree so she could grab on to him to save herself. She failed; died. However, the legend goes further saying that THAT tree still exists listening to his lovers screams of distress within the falls.
The falls are close to where the Parana rivers join; &, this is where the boundries of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay converge.
Many Native Indians of the area will swear the story to be FACT.
Grace Metalious - No Adam in Eden
Cardinal Books 75002, 1964
Cover Artist: unknown
"The lives and loves of three passionate women in a prim New England town."
Ray Kellen - Roadhouse Sin
Spade Books SV103, circa 1964
Cover photo uncredited
"She made men the way she made the beds in her wild wanton Roadhouse Sin."
John Tyler - You Can't Escape Me
Newsstand Library U162, 1961
Cover Artist: Robert Bonfils
"She was the high priestess of evil—rapacious and insatiable. Hell was her home and Satan, her lover."
Robert Devlin - Bitch on Wheels
Chariot Books 156, 1960
Cover photo uncredited
"Darlene used her wild, uncontrollable passions to jump from a Texas shack to the plush lined beds of big city vice..."
You should really check this band out if you are enjoy local underground music and pop-punk! They are just starting out, but honestly they have such great potential as artists!!! Fiction Department is a band from Kansas City. Check them out.
Science Fiction / Heft-Reihe
Hans Peschke / Das Rätsel von Noron
Astro-Verlag
(Köln / Deutschland; 1974)
ex libris MTP
Joe Marten - Seagoing Sexpot
Pillow Books 106, 1962
Cover Artist: unknown
"She was a sexy stewardess on a luxury cruiser – but once outside the three-mile limit she became a love slave in a floating brothel!"
David Dortort - Burial of the Fruit
Avon Books 183, 1948
Cover Artist: © Ann Cantor
"A gripping novel of youth in the slums."
David Dortort was the creator of the US TV show 'Bonanza'.
Adam Coulter - Private Orgy
Merit Books 537, 1961
Cover Artist: Sloan
"This she-devil could satisfy the big man - or any man - in every way!"
Adam Coulter was a pseudonym of James T. Smith
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr - Player Piano
Bard Books YN235, 1970
Cover Artist: Milton Charles
"A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future. It is loosely related to George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' and just as loosely to 'Alice in Wonderland'."
Jerry M. Goff, Jr - Strange Loves
Merit Books 618, 1962
Cover Artist: Sloan
"Jacques looked at me with incredible hunger! I knew I couldn't resist – I had to make him believe that I'd never enjoyed any man's body like this!"
Alan Calper - Lust Greed
Dragon Editions 131, 1966
Cover Artist: unknown
"Her wanton ways and desires created a Lust Greed."
Gertrude Schweitzer - The Obsessed
Gold Medal Books 125, 1950
Cover Artist: unknown
"Beneath her delicate beauty lurked the cruelty of a beast."
Brian Wildsmith tells his version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic collections using his wildly imaginative drawings. : )
Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses
Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith.
Oxford University Press. (1966)
James M. Cain - The Moth
Signet Books 811
Published 1950; 8th printing 1953
Cover Artist: Alan Harmon
"A brutal story of footloose youth."
Mack, tried the door. It was unlocked. He had learned a long time ago
to check before kicking them down. However much fun it might be.
- Looks like we got a runner.
- Dammit. That's the third this week.
There was an evil smell. Shafts of light penetrated the room like
unwelcome guests churning thick grey smoke into Carrara marble.
- Maybe not.
A green glow from the computer illuminated a collection of clear empty
bottles. A body lay on the floor. The right hand grasped a telephone.
There was a queer smirk on it's face.
Mack didn't need to touch him to know that he was already cold.
- Looks like the phone help got him. Call central and send over a
clean-up crew.
He picked up the reciever and put it back in place.
# Press one for sales, press two for support, press three now if you
already know your extension...
# Press one for sales, press two for support, press three now if you
already know your extension...
# Press one for sales, press two for support, press three now if you
already know your extension...
- 24/7 my butt, the poor gaffer didn't stand a chance.
# Hello this is Raul, email server 33453, it's bad here. Green stuff
is coming out of the back of the machine and it don't sound so good.
You'd better send someone over quick.
# Press one for sales...
# He broke the seal on another bottle - more only get's worse - and
he giggled.
Mack sidestepped the corpse and pressed Ctrl, Alt and Delete on the
grimy keyboard.
- And tell them the server's up.
Fingerpainted on my iphone please read the whole set www.flickr.com/photos/36709780@N05/sets/72157622568953322/
Don Holliday - Carnal Code
Ember Books 933, 1964
Cover Artist: unknown
"In a slum world of sin they lived by a – Carnal Code."
Carter A. Vaughan - The Devil's Bride
Avon Books T-333, 1959
Cover Artist: Darcy
"She could command him, love him or kill him... but she could not compel him to forget the beautiful young slave girl whose innocent love meant more to him than a mighty empire."
Câu chuyện sau đây tôi kể ... Nó sẽ mãi là một câu chuyện tình dang dở giữa tôi và Ly .
Nó sẽ mãi là một câu chuyện chỉ có trong ảo mộng, một tiểu thuyết không có thật !
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Phần đầu : Kí ức - trang 1
- Một ngày đẹp trời, nắng không quá to, những dải mây trắng nối tiếp nhau trên bầu trời xanh .Tôi đứng đây, nhìn lên những đám mây và tôi tưởng tượng ra đằng này là một chú thỏ xinh xắn, đằng kia lại là một ngôi nhà êm ấm hạnh phúc ... Tôi đang ở công viên vui chơi. Đợi Ly ! Người mà tôi vẫn luôn yêu thương từ năm tôi học lớp 8.
Tôi và Ly luôn được mọi người ca ngợi là một cặp " Trai tài gái sắc " , ai ai cũng nghĩ tôi và Ly sẽ đi đến một kết thúc có hậu ...
- Nam Nam !
Tiếng gọi của Ly ...
Tôi ngừng những dòng suy nghĩ lại, ngừng nhìn lên những đám mây và chào tạm biệt với chú thỏ và ngôi nhà trên bầu trời ...
- Em có đến muộn hông vậy ( Ly nói giọng nịnh nọt )
- Không hề, anh vừa mới ra đây thôi mà. ( Thực ra là đã đứng ở đây 2 tiếng đồng hồ rồi )
- Thật hông đó ?
- Thật mà hehe, nhìn em hôm nay lạ thật đó !
- Sao lại lạ ? ( Ly hỏi ngạc nhiên )
- Thì ... tóc em hôm nay vàng , môi em hôm nay đỏ, mắt em hôm nay có màu xanh biếc ..
- Anh có thấy xinh không ?
- Ơ ... ( Ly hỏi làm tôi ngại quá hix )
- Nào trả lời em đi...
- Xinh lắm hì hì, không phải là " Ly quê mùa " nữa rồi .
- Anh muốn ăn đấm phải hông ?
- Không anh đùa mà, thật sự là anh thấy rất hãnh diện đó nha hehe .
- Ủa sao lại thế ?
- Vì Ly của anh xinh đẹp nhất thế giới mà !
- Đúng là cái đồ .... ( Ly đỏ mặt )
Tôi nắm lấy tay của Ly . Tôi đưa cô ấy đến xe kem bông . Tôi mua cho cô ấy một chiếc kem bông to thật là to.Sau đó chúng tôi lên ngồi cáp treo . Ly ngồi nhìn ra cửa sổ ngắm cảnh và ăn chiếc kem bông. Tôi thì ngồi đó, nhưng nhìn Ly ...
Tôi nhớ cái lần đầu tiên gặp Ly , từ ánh mắt cho đến nụ cười của cô ấy, dường như cô ấy đã khóa trái tim tôi từ cái nhìn đầu tiên !
Bỗng nhiên ...
- Nam à ! Đưa em đi đu quay con ngựa đi hì hì .
- Nếu em muốn thì điều gì cũng được .
Tôi đưa cô ấy đến đu quay.
Cô ấy trèo lên , ngồi bám chặt dây cương ...
Nhưng ... đu quay không hoạt động, dòng điện của đu quay bị chập và vẫn chưa sửa được. Tôi nhìn Ly, ánh mắt cô ấy buồn hẳn lại ..
- Em sao vậy ?
- Nam à, từ bé đến giờ, em chưa bao giờ được ngồi đu quay con ngựa cả !
- Ơ sao lại thế ...
- Thì mẹ em mất từ hồi em 3 tuổi, bố em mải làm ăn nuôi em ăn học nên có bao giờ đưa em đi chơi đu quay đâu hì hì .
- Anh xin lỗi , anh không cố ý ... anh ...
- Có sao đâu , đồ hâm của em .
Ly xuống và ôm lấy tôi, tôi nảy ra một ý nghĩ trong đầu !
- Ly trèo lên ngựa đi em !
- Nhưng đâu có quay được hix
- Em cứ trèo lên đi, anh có phép thần thông cho nó quay nè.
Ly trèo lên và nhìn tôi với ánh mắt tò mò.
- Đâu cho em xem phép thần thông nào.
- Ly nhìn nhaaaaa !
Tôi chạy ngược theo chiều kim đồng hồ, tôi chạy và chạy , chạy quanh chiếc đu quay đó, chạy đến chỗ Ly tôi lại vẫy chào Ly và mỉm cười thật tươi. Ly bỗng bật cười, một nụ cười hạnh phúc. Ly nắm chặt lấy dây cương của con ngựa , và nhìn tôi .
Tôi tiếp tục chạy .. đến khi Ly bảo tôi ngừng lại.
Ly đến chỗ tôi và ôm tôi thật chặt .
- Nam à ! Anh đúng là thầy phù thủy giỏi nhất thế giới đó hehe.
- Ô vì anh là Nam Nam của Ly mà !
Tôi hôn nhẹ lên trán của cô ấy.
- Em đã đói chưa ? Ta đi ăn chứ ?
- Vâng ! Hì
- Có mệt không, để anh cõng Ly nhé .
- Cái đồ hâm này, em nặng lắm đó.
Tôi đến và nhấc Ly lên.
- Thế này mà kêu nặng, về ăn uống thêm đi nha, em ốm quá đó ! Nào lên lưng anh nào.
- Anh thật là ...
- Nào Nam Nam đang đợi em nè !
Ly lên lưng tôi . Tôi cõng cô ấy, ánh hoàng hôn chiếu vào chúng tôi. Và cứ thế một ngày trôi qua ..
Stuart Friedman - The Fly Girls
Monarch Books 201, 1961
Cover Artist: Robert Maguire
"The lives and loves of the men and women who fly America's airplanes."
This is one of a series of pictures that tell the tale of the cheerleader.
She tried on an unusual uniform that arrived in the post. She finds that, if she sneezes, the suit seems to grow, enveloping her more and more, until...
Doctor Who fans may note a slight echo of the episode, "Blink" - my favourite and not just because of the wonderful Sally Sparrow!
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Monte Steele - Passionate Cheat
Bedside Books 1246, 1963
Cover Artist: unknown... Oscar Liebman ?
"She was a witch with an itch..."
Danny Lee - Play-for-Pay Studs
Jade Editions 101, 1965
Cover photo uncredited
"On demand they would pay the wives a 'service call' because they were the Pay-for-Play Studs."
George Milburn - All Over Town
(Original Title: Catalogue)
Zenith Books ZB-2, 1958
Cover Artist: Samson Pollen
"Small town girls with big city notions - and hell to pay over the difference..."
The Downtown Fiction Live in Jakarta
Tennis Indoor Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia
May 14th 2011
Photographed under JAVA Musikindo