MetaFilter posts tagged with Wonderland

Ask Me Anything

WCityMike — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:19:28 -0800

I was shot in the head two years ago. I was in prison for six years. I live in a Taliban hub. I need to be an amputee. I'm four. I'm six. I'm eight. I have a micropenis. I've had sex both with and without a foreskin. My sister and I are in love. I'm in love with my mother. I married and had a daughter with my first cousin. I love my dog. I have killed someone while driving drunk. I have superpowers from chemotherapy. I was in a cult for seven years. I own a woman. I used to be asexual (I am still asexual). I was in porn (and I'm still in porn). I took a boy's virginity. I am killing myself in a few months. I started the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I started Reddit.

I have a "state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions". I have Alice in Wonderland syndrome. I believe free will doesn't exist.

I was driven gay. I am gay in a straight marriage. I was born a woman, became a man, and as a man, I'm gay.

I'm a pawnbroker, mortician, spammer, multimillionaire, working TV/film comedy writer, Freemason, actor's assistant, beekeeper, drug dealer, Catholic priest, kleptomaniac, nudist, prosecutor, suicide hotline volunteer.

I'm a pathological liar. I might be making all this up.

Ask me anything.

Wonderland

flatluigi — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:16:06 -0800

'Alice,' by Nick Bertke. MP3s of 'Alice' and three other pieces of music similarly created by sampling Alice in Wonderland can be downloaded from here.

Photographs of Children's Drawings

suedehead — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:20:51 -0800

Wonderland is a series by Yeon Doo Jung which takes drawings done by children, and re-photographs them in the real world. The results of this interpretation are, um, hilarious. Use the green arrows for navigating from photo to photo. "...The power of a child's imagination is how it delicately refigures memory and real imagery into unreasonable and unexpected expressions and impressions. Children's fantasies spring from flexible interpretations of adult conventions. The challenge of photographically reconstructing these fantasies may reflect Jung's challenge of becoming a father in real life. It is not hard to imagine that he is inspired by the limitless imaginative power of the child playing before his eyes. This makes even more sense in light of Kristeva's comment that the child is the "mythical figure" of the imaginary. The adolescents who play-act for Jung take on the adult forms of their drawn figures, but with adolescent minds, and thus visually realize the fusion of fantasy and reality. These are works that gaze upon the world of adult reason with the pure, unsullied eyes of a child. Balanced between reality and fantasy, the deformed cartoonish world in "Wonderland" sways our values and beliefs." - from his website, author unknown. Vaguely inspired by tableau-vivant. Also, a related FPP about the similar concept of artists redrawing children's drawings of Winnie-the-Pooh. (Link within FPP is down, however)

Alices in Wonderlands

carsonb — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:44:41 -0800

Alice illustrations other than Tenniel Favorites so far: Tove Jansson Khodozhnik S. Goloshchapov Debbie Boon-Jenkins Some Previously/Related stuff [filler; stuffing]: Alice In Civil War Land posted by Marxchivist EAT ME: Alice's Adventures Under Ground posted by Pretty_Generic The Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-engraved Illustration posted by thomas j wise The children's book illustrators archive posted by OmieWise