Vintage Fairy Tale Pic

Love this romantic, fairy like photograph....

Still on Fairy Tales

Doing my research on Images of Fairy Tales I came across these amazing reconstruction of some scenes of the tales... here they go...at Platinum FMD

Yummy Snow White

Wicked Witch even the poor slug is afraid of

A modern Cinderella

My favorite, a really cool bad wolf and his little red riding hood

Fairy Tale Animal versus Haute Couture

While the Paper Dress Project is on stand-by, there is a new and it will be the last project for this uni year.

The brief is to choose an animal from a fairy tale or tradicional story and dressed it up with some haute couture garment, something like a McQueen dress.

Unfortunatly my favorite fairy tale of all time hasn´t got an animal but i found this image and i can´t posting it....

The Princess and the Pea

 

I have choosen a children´s story, a favorite of many, "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", it is an English fairy tale, first recorded in narrative form by British author and poet Robert Southey in 1837

For those who don´t know this story or don´t remenber here it goes:

"Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks.  She  went for a walk in the forest.  Pretty soon, she came upon a house.  She knocked and, when no one answered, she walked right in.

At the table in the kitchen, there were three bowls of porridge. Goldilocks was hungry.  She tasted the porridge from the first bowl. 

"This porridge is too hot!" she exclaimed.

So, she tasted the porridge from the second bowl.

"This porridge is too cold," she said

So, she tasted the last bowl of porridge.

"Ahhh, this porridge is just right," she said happily and she ate it all up.

After she'd eaten the three bears' breakfasts she decided she was feeling a little tired.  So, she walked into the living room where she saw three chairs.  Goldilocks sat in the first chair to rest her feet.   

"This chair is too big!" she exclaimed.

So she sat in the second chair.

"This chair is too big, too!"  she whined.

So she tried the last and smallest chair.

"Ahhh, this chair is just right," she sighed.  But just as she settled down into the chair to rest, it broke into pieces!

Goldilocks was very tired by this time, so she went upstairs to the bedroom.  She lay down in the first bed, but it was too hard. Then she lay in the second bed, but it was too soft. Then she lay down in the third bed and it was just right.  Goldilocks fell asleep.

As she was sleeping, the three bears came home. 

"Someone's been eating my porridge," growled the Papa bear.

"Someone's been eating my porridge," said the Mama bear.

"Someone's been eating my porridge and they ate it all up!" cried the Baby bear.

"Someone's been sitting in my chair," growled the Papa bear.

"Someone's been sitting in my chair," said the Mama bear.

"Someone's been sitting in my chair and they've broken it all to pieces," cried the Baby bear.

They decided to look around some more and when they got upstairs to the bedroom, Papa bear growled, "Someone's been sleeping in my bed,"

"Someone's been sleeping in my bed, too" said the Mama bear

"Someone's been sleeping in my bed and she's still there!" exclaimed Baby bear.

Just then, Goldilocks woke up and saw the three bears.  She screamed, "Help!"  And she jumped up and ran out of the room.  Goldilocks ran down the stairs, opened the door, and ran away into the forest.  And she never returned to the home of the three bears.

THE END

Illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1837

The story makes extensive use of the literary rule of three, featuring three chairs, three bowls of porridge, three beds, and the three title characters who live in the house. There are also three sequences of the bears discovering in turn that someone has been eating from their porridge, sitting in their chairs, and finally, lying in their beds, at which point is the climax of Goldilocks being discovered. 

This follows three earlier sequences of Goldilocks trying the bowls of porridge, chairs, and beds successively, each time finding the third "just right". Author Christopher Booker characterizes this as the "dialectical three", where "the first is wrong in one way, the second in another or opposite way, and only the third, in the middle, is just right. This idea that the way forward lies in finding an exact middle path between opposites is of extraordinary importance in storytelling".

The Goldilocks Principle describes a situation which is just right in a manner akin to that portrayed in the tale.

 

 To be followed....

World Press Photo Exhibition - Lisbon

I have been recently to see the World Press Photo exhibition here in Lisbon. When I was living in London i would do it every year, more than often a few times. I just love photojournalism and once i had this dream of being one of them... Anyway the exhibition seemed to me to be smaller than the ones shown in London, it was mainly the winners of the different prizes. I loved all of it, some images are really strong and can make you cry and feel depressed with all the pain and suffering that exists around the world. But if pictures of it exist is because something is starting to be done to change that. Apart from natural calamities everything else can be changed. There is always hope, and the proof of that is the case of the winner of this year. 

This photo was taken by Jodie Bieber , a south-african photographer, and it was published in The Times magazine. It was created a fund and this afghan girl, who suffered this horrible injuries by her former husband, it was given her another change to have a better life and has now done reconstructered surgery. Bibi now lives in the States.

This is how beautiful she looks now

Here are some of my favorites...

Cornada,  Julio Aparicio

A man and a boy, displaced by floods, walk through flood waters on August 22, 2010 in the village of Baseera near Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan, Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images.

Nature Singles Prize, Thomas P. Peschak, Cape Gannet

Ed Kashi, 2rd Prize Contemporary Issues, this is Nguyen Thi Ly, 9 years old, who suffers from disabilities believed to be caused by the defoliating chemical Agent Orange. During the Vietnam War, U.S.A forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents' exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.  

The most peaceful of all

Paper Dress Project - The Start of It!

I have based my research and inspiration in the shapes and forms of Sculpture and Architecture

 

 These are photographs by Werner Schnell, I have tried to know a bit more about him or the sculptures but no luck on information.

I have also looked at this amazing sculpture by Tonkin Liu Architects.

This is a musical sculpture by Tonkin Liu architects outside of the city of Burnley in northern England. When the wind whips through the galvanized steel pipes, it sounds like whale song. Amazing

This Biomorphic Buildings were created by the Design team Chimera. They conceived  an incredible series of spiraling skyscrapers for New York’s Hudson Yards.The skyscraper’s structure is modeled after mangrove trees, spiraling plant growth patterns, and the interaction of natural ecosystems.

 Named Mangal City, the project is an “urban ecological system” composed of modular pod capsules that shift to adapt to environmental and contextual conditions.

The project was designed by Pierandrea Angius, Alkis Dikaios, Thomas Jacobsen, and Carlos Parraga-Botero and is a thesis proposal for the Masters of Architecture in Parametric Urbanism program at the AASchool of Architecture in London. According to the designers, “our vision is to define an urban ecosystem which supports housing and cultural programs and has the ability to adapt, transform, mutate and adjust according to the specific urban and social character of the site

Then I have started to experiment with 1/4 scale model

Drawing the pattern into card

This will be the base of the dress. A one-shoulder, knee length dress.

 

Starting to glue some newspaper rolls

Illustration of the idea for the dress.

And now a yummy sweet before all the work begins...