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Mar 08
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Charmed Adventure Necklace and Tea Party Bracelet by Tom Binns for Walt Disney Signature… This timeless story of Lewis Caroll married with the wonderful world of Disney and Tim Burton’s interpretation offers so much philosophical fantasy and peculiar surreal imagination,” Binns said of the collaboration. “It opens up a labyrinth of doors for my particular way of seeing the world, allowing me to express my fashion experience with my interest in art and cinema. Alice is the perfect story to release that creativity, and I cannot imagine a better story to cultivate my relationship with Disney.” (via)

Charmed Adventure Necklace and Tea Party Bracelet by Tom Binns for Walt Disney Signature…

This timeless story of Lewis Caroll married with the wonderful world of Disney and Tim Burton’s interpretation offers so much philosophical fantasy and peculiar surreal imagination,” Binns said of the collaboration. “It opens up a labyrinth of doors for my particular way of seeing the world, allowing me to express my fashion experience with my interest in art and cinema. Alice is the perfect story to release that creativity, and I cannot imagine a better story to cultivate my relationship with Disney.” (via)

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Another shot (featuring Natalia Vodianova) by Annie Leibovitz…

Another shot (featuring Natalia Vodianova) by Annie Leibovitz…

Jan 16
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» Interesting Interface: Alice in Wonderland

Tim Burton is coming to a theater near you…

Feb 26
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This will surely only combine my obsessions: Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland: The first 3-D flick that Burton will direct for Disney is a live-action/motion capture remake of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s tale, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The book, filled with hookah-huffing caterpillars, porpoise puns, lobster quadrilles and croquet-obsessed queens, is a natural fit for Burton’s “gothic carnival” imagery. The best-known of those failed versions is, of course, Walt Disney’s 1951’s animated film. Long considered one of the lesser films in Walt Disney’s animated canon, Alice in Wonderland received a hostile reaction from British critics and disappointing box office on its initial release. It was the only Silver Age animated film to never be re-released theatrically during Walt’s lifetime. “(Alice in Wonderland) suffered from too many cooks - directors,” legendary Disney animator Ward Kimball told Leonard Maltin. “Here was a case of five directors each trying to top the other guy and make his sequence the biggest and craziest in the show. This had a self-canceling effect on the final product.” In the late 1960’s, Alice in Wonderland became extremely popular (much to Disney’s dismay) as a “head flick:” a movie that university students would watch while under the influence of recreational pharmaceuticals. The original story, filled with Carroll’s lysergic imagery, has a long history of appealing to the drug culture. “The stories are like drugs for children, you know?” Burton says. “It’s like, ‘Whoa, man.’ The imagery, they’ve never quite nailed making it compelling as a full story. So I think it’s an interesting challenge to direct.”

This will surely only combine my obsessions: Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland:

The first 3-D flick that Burton will direct for Disney is a live-action/motion capture remake of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s tale, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The book, filled with hookah-huffing caterpillars, porpoise puns, lobster quadrilles and croquet-obsessed queens, is a natural fit for Burton’s “gothic carnival” imagery.

The best-known of those failed versions is, of course, Walt Disney’s 1951’s animated film. Long considered one of the lesser films in Walt Disney’s animated canon, Alice in Wonderland received a hostile reaction from British critics and disappointing box office on its initial release. It was the only Silver Age animated film to never be re-released theatrically during Walt’s lifetime.

“(Alice in Wonderland) suffered from too many cooks - directors,” legendary Disney animator Ward Kimball told Leonard Maltin. “Here was a case of five directors each trying to top the other guy and make his sequence the biggest and craziest in the show. This had a self-canceling effect on the final product.”

In the late 1960’s, Alice in Wonderland became extremely popular (much to Disney’s dismay) as a “head flick:” a movie that university students would watch while under the influence of recreational pharmaceuticals. The original story, filled with Carroll’s lysergic imagery, has a long history of appealing to the drug culture.

“The stories are like drugs for children, you know?” Burton says. “It’s like, ‘Whoa, man.’ The imagery, they’ve never quite nailed making it compelling as a full story. So I think it’s an interesting challenge to direct.”
Dec 20
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“ If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?
— Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
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Alice in Wonderland by Annie Leibovitz featuring Natalia Vodianova and John Galliano…

Alice in Wonderland by Annie Leibovitz featuring Natalia Vodianova and John Galliano…

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I watched the new Ashlee Simpson video a few times yesterday but thought it was time to watch it again (awkward, I know). Predictably, I love the Alice in Wonderland, Clockwork Orange, Salvadore Dali, etc. influences but something still seems a little off to me on the video version… Maybe because it looks and sounds so similar to something Gwen Stefani would make?

Nov 14
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“ It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards…
— Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass