I definitely wasn't trying for a double entendre when I wrote that title after I decided to post this picture, but it came natural, and it felt natural, and it works better than anything else. Aside from that, these are from my neo-fairy tale project. They're the highly stylized fairy tale princesses we all grew up with, but as adult as the fairy tales originally depicted them. This takes me to a certain point I'd love to express: diluted classics.
The quote/un-quote classics of yesterday have become severely diluted from their original flavor. The Little Mermaid for example. In the original Hans Christian Anderson tale, a mermaid sells her voice to a sea witch to be with someone she lusts after, even going so far as to endure the constant pain from walking as a side effect of the spell. She is then dated, left for another woman, and turns into seafoam. The original is a SAD FUCKING TALE.
The Disney version though is a childish take where the mermaid, Ariel, winds up with the man she's always been after and the sea witch is the enemy through and through. No seafoam, no heartbreak, no REAL morals. It was a money making venture into culturing kids into thinking the world is bright and cheery and there's always a villain.
After Disney remade the Little Mermaid, Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli made one too. It's called Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. Here is where it gets crazy. A kid discovers a sea creature and keeps in in a bucket. He loses it, the sea creature turns out to be Ponyo, a sea princess, and falls in innocent love with the kid. Ponyo unleashes sea magic that caused a) a tsunami and b) Ponyo to turn human. The kid and Ponyo undergo a trial of love and all is better. Though I love Miyazaki for everything he does, and even though Ponyo is an animated achievement back to his hand and paper basics, Ponyo is whack. Enjoyable but whack. It's closer to the original tale, but makes it feel like a Japanese folklore copy.
All I'm saying is, don't stray too far from the original when doing a remake. Otherwise you'll end up like the Watchmen movie, haha.
I absolutely love that tattoo. Her back is the pond itself.
Madame Villeneuve would approve.
I always liked bubbles.
