I shared the new trailer yesterday but failed to share the new posters and banner. So here you go... They appear to be Photoshopped versions of the original stills released several weeks ago.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Advertising: Sabugosa Children Books and Fairy Tales
Great stories live forever.
Advertising Agency: Fields, Brazil
Creative Directors: André Sartorelli, Fernando Lopes
Art Director: Lucas Zaiden
Copywriter: Paulo Lima
Illustrator: Grupo Magneto
Via Ads of the World.
Eep! Aren't these grotesque? Which was the purpose but it doesn't sell children's books to me. How about you?
Advertising: 30 ore per la Vita & Little Red Riding Hood
Fight evil before it grows up.
Help us to stop mother to child AIDS transmission. All you need is 100 euro to save a life.
For: 30 ore per la Vita
Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Rome, Italy
Creative Directors: Agostino Toscana, Guido Cornara
Art Director: Ignazio Morello
Copywriter: Massimo Caiati
Illustrator: Ignazio Morello
Published: April 2008
Via Ads of the World.
I question the efficacy of this one, but it is interesting and thus included here. Fairy tales EVERYWHERE....
Friday, November 11, 2011
Snow White & The Huntsman Trailer 1
So that's the first trailer for Snow White & The Huntsman movie. Better than I anticipated actually but then it dwells on Theron and not Stewart who I have a hard time not seeing as Bella Swann, alas.
In theatres June 1, 2012.
I have a feeling that by the end of 2012 I will be really weary of Snow White. She is certainly the belle of the fairy tale ball right now. Although I like her much better after reading so many of her stories while editing Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World
Shruthi Hassan Photos stills from 7th Sense
Shruthi Hassan Photos stills from 7th Sense, 09 more images after the break...
Ritemail Picdump — 46 Pics
Ritemail Picdump 44 more images after the break...
Kuwait new International Airport
The Kuwait International Airport is a very bold project since it has a paramount importance for the Gulf region. The new airport will have an innovative design-a modern approach and a practical one, too since the climate in Kuwait is one of the hottest in the entire world. Foster+ Partners are handling the design of the airport, being inspired by local forms and using local materials, too. 12 more images after the break...
Hotel in the heart of Namibia's Wildlife
Wolwedans Dunes Lodge Hotel is located in the heart of the private nature reserve area of 185.000 hectares NamibRand in Namibia. Treat yourself to an unforgettable stay, surrounded by wild nature, not forgetting about the comfort and style. Wooden construction with panoramic views of the desert in all directions, reminiscent of an original camp, but at the same time provide protection and comfort. Each of the nine spacious chalets with en suite and private terrace. In the main building are two lounges, a library, an outdoor fireplace, three restaurants, a wine cellar and swimming pool. Wolwedans Dunes Lodge. If you love nature and seek a peaceful and interesting to cleanse the mind and soul, Wolwedans Dunes Lodge - this is what you need. 25 more images after the break...
Advertising: SKY Satellite TV and Fairy Tales
Only the safest program for your kids.
Thanks to the parental control button, you can check on your kids' programs.
For: SKY Satellite TV
Advertising Agency: 1861United Milano Italy
Executive Creative Directors: Pino Rozzi, Roberto Battaglia
Creative Directors: Peppe Cirillo
Art Director: Peppe Cirillo
Copywriter: Vincenzo Celli
Photographer: Andrea Melcangi
Published: April 2008
Via Ads of the World.
An interesting concept, but a little disturbing, too, in imagery. Or perhaps that is just because I am back from traveling with lots of security screening craziness on the brain.
Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire by Thomas Sully
My parents visit a lot of museums and they are always kind enough to take pictures of fairy tale related art when it is allowed. In October they visited the Dallas Museum of Art and saw this painting by Thomas Sully, "Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire." I found an article about the museum's acquistion of the painting which offers more information about the painting, too. This is the museum's image of the painting since I didn't have time to resize my father's photo.
Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire
1843
Paintings, Oil on canvas
Overall: 58 x 64 in. (147.32 cm x 1 m 62.56 cm)
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the Pauline Allen Gill Foundation, 2005.1
Thursday, November 10, 2011
New Book: Snow in Summer: Fairest of Them All by Jane Yolen
It's finally here! Today is the release date for Snow in Summer: Fairest of Them All
by Jane Yolen. I received an ARC of this one and it is lovely. Yolen's rich language and adept storytelling make for a compelling story and I enjoyed this one very much. However, I would say it is for the age range provided and older. I started it with my precocious reading 8 1/2 year old niece who was somewhat bored--she rushed back to her library books of Hinduism for Dummies and Beekeeping for Dummies. (Really. She is very precocious and I adore her.) It may have been a bad day for her, but she glommed up A Tale Dark and Grimm, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Eragon in years past. It could also be taste although she likes fairy tale novels I share with her in general.
As for myself, I've been a Yolen fan since Briar Rose and Snow in Summer is a boon while very different. Yes, we are inundated with Snow White in other media formats these days, but novels of her story are currently few and far between which also made this one refreshing.
I hope to write a more in-depth review soon but I read this shortly before my trip to Europe and am still recovering brain cells from jet lag and overstimulation the past several weeks from before, during, and after trip demands.
From the publisher:
With her black hair, red lips, and lily-white skin, Summer is as beautiful as her father's garden. And her life in the mountains of West Virginia seems like a fairy tale; her parents sing and dance with her, Cousin Nancy dotes on her, and she is about to get a new baby brother. But when the baby dies soon after he's born, taking Summer's mama with him, Summer's fairy-tale life turns grim. Things get even worse when her father marries a woman who brings poisons and magical mirrors into Summer's world. Stepmama puts up a pretty face, but Summer suspects she's up to no good - and is afraid she's powerless to stop her.
This Snow White tale filled with magic and intrigue during the early twentieth century in Appalachia will be hard to forget.
Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up
New Release: Forsaken by Katherine Langrish
Today is the UK release day for Forsaken (EDGE - Rivets)
by Katherine Langrish. While the book is not readily available in paper quite yet in the US, the good news is that it is available in ebook format for a great price of $6.66 at Amazon.com. So you don't have to wait to read it. I adore ebook publishing...Langrish is best known around here as the keeper of the Seven Miles of Steel Thistles blog and the Fairy Tale Reflections series. Today she shared a little history of her new book on the blog, discussing its inspiration source from Agnete and the Mermaid.
Mara's mother is missing, her little brother is sick, maybe dying, her father is grieving. It all seems hopeless - until Mara sets out on a life-or-death journey to bring her mother home.
'Forsaken' is - along with most of my other books - based on folklore, on a tale which is most famously the inspiration for Matthew Arnold's beautiful 19th century poem 'The Forsaken Merman' - the story of a merman who marries a human woman, Margaret.
COME, dear children, let us away;
Down and away below.
Now my brothers call from the bay;
Now the great winds shoreward blow;
Now the salt tides seaward flow;
Now the wild white horses play,
Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
Children dear, let us away.
This way, this way!
The merman, who speaks the poem, has married a human woman, Margaret. They lived happily together under the sea till one day she heard church bells ringing in the world above, and felt a sudden longing to go and pray. The merman agreed to part with her for a short visit but once on land she never returned to the sea, leaving her husband and little mer-children desolate.
Come away, away, children.
Come children, come down.
The hoarse wind blows colder;
Lights shine in the town.
She will start from her slumber
When gusts shake the door;
She will hear the winds howling,
Will hear the waves roar.
We shall see, while above us
The waves roar and whirl,
A ceiling of amber,
A pavement of pearl.
Singing, 'Here came a mortal,
But faithless was she:
And alone dwell for ever
The kings of the sea.'
I read this poem many times as a child and always loved its lilting, changing rhythms and the beauty of its descriptions, as well as feeling sorry for the poor, heartbroken merman. It's the opposite of the Selkie story which I use in 'West of the Moon': about the fisherman who takes a selkie bride, and the message of both tales seems to be about the attraction of the Other, as well as the difficulty of living with it. Of course the old belief about merfolk - as for all faerie folk - was that unlike human beings, they had no souls. Margaret fears she too will lose her immortal soul and her chance of heaven if she stays with the merman. This fear leads her to abandon her husband and children. And here is an eternal question, one still being asked and played out today in many a family: was she right to follow her beliefs? Or wrong to cause her family so much unhappiness?
In the original Danish ballad, which I think Arnold must have read, 'Agnete and the Merman', the woman lives eight years with the Merman under the sea until one day she 'hears the clocks of England chime' and asks permisson to go to church. She meets her mother at the church door. 'Where hast thou been?' 'I have been at the bottom of the sea, and have seven sons by the Merman'. The Merman comes to find her, but when he peeps into the church, all the little stone images turn their backs on him.
When I read this, a shiver ran down my spine and I knew I had to tell the story again - but this time I wondered, what would have happened if, instead of the merman, one of Margaret's own daughters came to find her...?
Agnete and the Mermaid is in my Mermaid and Other Water Spirit Tales From Around the World
and I thought I had posted about it during mermaid month here on the blog, but apparently I didn't. It's a great one and I am thrilled Langrish used it for her book. Her book is aimed at young readers which makes this a short story for adult readers and great for difficult readers who may love mermaids.
Conference: Cinderella as a Text of Culture
Cinderella as a Text of Culture
International Conference
University of Rome, “La Sapienza”
November, 8-10th 2012
Cinderella is one of the most beloved and well-known tales in the Western culture. Invariably popular among the audience of children and adults alike, translated, adapted and reinvented in sometimes dramatically different versions, Cinderella’s story has been told again and again, in literature, in music, in theatre, in film and in other arts. It has also been the object of an extensive scholar research, beginning with Marian Roalf Cox’s pioneering compendium compiled in the nineteenth century. Folklorists have recognized hundreds of distinct forms of Cinderella’s plots and subtypes throughout the Western World, and they have analysed form and typology of the tale, as well as its development through time. Many methodological approaches have been applied to Cinderella, such as ritual, structural, anthropological, sociological or – more recently – feminist interpretations, while one of the most extensive psychoanalytical readings of the tale is to be found in Bruno Bettelheim’s The Uses of Enchantment.
However while the mainstream of the research puts an emphasis on the universal values and meanings of the tale, we would like to propose a different approach and to consider Cinderella in its textual nature, as a product related to a given geo-cultural, historical and literary and mediatic ec(h)o-system. We are particularly interested in contributions In other words, the focus of the proposed seminar is neither the Cinderella as an item of folklore nor the universal meaning of the tale, but rather the many Cinderellas that have populated past and present Western culture and the different national literatures. In order to investigate these phenomena in greater depth, we would like to invite you to discuss Cinderella’s various textual metamorphoses. Topics and questions that may be addressed include:
Giambattista Basile – Charles Perrault – Grimm brothers: textual interconnections and interactions;
Grimm’s Aschenputtel versus Perrault’s Cendrillon as literary texts: affinities and differences, reception and fortune;
What is the status of Cinderella tale among other fairy tales? What are the reasons of its particular appeal? Is it somehow different from other, similar rise- or restoration tales?
Travelling stories and intercultural canon formation (what does it mean that Cinderella is a “canonical” fairy tale? Does an international canon of fairy tales truly exist?)
Translatio / translation
Audience typologies and reception, manipulation and ideology, cultural translatio;
Domestication, its function and the question of national identity: the “nationalisations” of Cinderella; intercultural communication through adaptations of fairy tales;
Iconological and imagological lecture of Cinderella: diachronical and synchronical aspects of tale’s visual representations
The literary canon and medial adaptation (Cinema, Theatre, Music)
The Conference is international in scope and attendance. The official conference language will be English and Italian.
Confirmed key speakers:
Ruth Bottigheimer (Stony Brook University)
Andrea Andermann (director and producer, Rada Film-RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana)
The conference is hosted by the University of Roma “La Sapienza” Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies
Organization
Scientific Committee
- Francesca Bernardini (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)
- Johanna Borek (University of Wien)
- Ruth Bottigheimer (Stony Brook University)
- Martine Hennard Dutheil (University of Lousanne)
- Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp)
- Gillian Lathey (Roehampton University, London)
- Jan Van Coillie (Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel)
- Monika Wozniak (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)
Local Organizing Committee
Camilla Miglio, Martine van Geetruyden, Monika Wozniak (University of Rome “La Sapienza”)
Deadlines
January 31th, 2012
Deadline for the proposal of conference papers, with the submission of a 300-400 word abstract (in English) and a short bionote including the following information:
1. Postal address
2. E-mail address
3. Academic affiliation
The abstracts should be sent to the following e-mail address: cinderella.roma2012@gmail.com
Enquiries
Monika Wozniak monika.wozniak@uniroma1.it
or
Camilla Miglio camilla.miglio@uniroma1.it
March 30th, 2012
The notification of admission will be sent to participants.
Advertising: Drew Barrymore as Beauty
This is a photo fashion spread by Annie Leibowitz of Drew Barrymore using Beauty and the Beast as inspiration. This isn't new, it was the April 2005 issue of Vogue Magazine, but I am considering it our advertising post of the day as well as just pretty... After all, the point is to sell the clothes and the magazine.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Anushka Shetty Latest Images
Actress Anushka Saree Stills from ragada Movie, 18 more images after the break...
Campaigning in Flight
UKIP candidate Nigel Farage tonight said he was 'lucky to be alive' after a miracle escape from a horrific plane crash when a last-minute election stunt went dramatically wrong.
Mr Farage is being treated in hospital after chipping his spine, damaging his breastbone and breaking two ribs in the accident, which came barely an hour after polling booths opened.
He was hauled to safety with blood trickling down his face after the aircraft plummeted to the ground at 70mph when a banner declaring 'Vote for your country, vote UKIP' became tangled in its tail fin. 04 more images after the break...
Mr Farage is being treated in hospital after chipping his spine, damaging his breastbone and breaking two ribs in the accident, which came barely an hour after polling booths opened.
He was hauled to safety with blood trickling down his face after the aircraft plummeted to the ground at 70mph when a banner declaring 'Vote for your country, vote UKIP' became tangled in its tail fin. 04 more images after the break...
Designed Cargo on German Wagons
Germany — Thinking over the appearance of the Fur, a few years there is a contest Rhino Rolling Advertising Award, designed to draw attention to the ads on wheels. Moreover, it's really original, so let's see the best examples of design of heavy trucks. 44 more images after the break...
Behind the Camera — Bear Grylls
Probably each of us has ever watched Bear Grylls transmission with "Survive at all costs."
So, I always wondered who those people that stand behind the main character, and how they work in such conditions. It was found too difficult to film crew, and they also pass many tests.
The Council has yet to see: 19 more images after the break...
So, I always wondered who those people that stand behind the main character, and how they work in such conditions. It was found too difficult to film crew, and they also pass many tests.
The Council has yet to see: 19 more images after the break...
Old photo of Turkmenistan
These are some old color photos of Turkmenistan taken in 1912. Join us in this retro-tour! 15 more images after the break...
Free eBook: The Fairy Tale Bride (Once Upon a Wedding) by Kelly McClymer
The Fairy Tale Bride (Once Upon a Wedding)
by Kelly McClymer is currently priced at $0 for its Kindle edition. This is a part of a series originally published by Kensington Zebra Ballad in October 2000 and now rereleased in ebook format by the author. Description from the publisher:
Miranda Fenster was known as the Fairy Tale Miss during the one disastrous London season that convinced her she would never have a happily-ever-after. But when her brother's love match is thwarted by the impossibly proper Duke of Kerstone, Miranda sets off to convince the duke to champion her brother's cause for love. Unfortunately, he is too proper to consider love a suitable reason for marriage, and too proper not to marry Miranda when they find themselves compromised. Now, Miranda has a second chance for happily-ever-after, if she can uncover her new husband's darkest secret.
And here's a snippet from a reader review--not positive--but showing that fairy tales do play a part in the novel:
The one thing that annoyed me to no end was the heroine's "cutesy" way of likening everything around her to various fairy tales. Every time it made her seem like a juvenile, naive idiot, when the rest of the time she was rather level-headed and even cynical at times. It was jarring each time, but I enjoyed the rest of the aspects of the book.
Free is nice if you are interested....
Advertising: Little Red Riding Hood Fights Back
Okay, this one is just fabulous. Wow, what a marketing budget, too.
To increase awareness and registration for their children’s self-defense classes, The World Black Belts Center in Dubai tackled this in an unconventional way. Nope, they didn’t reverse punch parents into registering their kids, instead Memac Ogilvy Dubai created an illustrated children’s book that’s based on the well-known story of Little Red Riding Hood. What happens in the end? Our little heroine courageously beats up the big bad wolf to save the day. A simple call to action on the back cover – “You Too Can Fight Back” – provides the reader with more information on self-defense classes for kids and directs them to register. The End.
Little Red Riding Hood Fights Back
Through the woods she walked
in her cloak of red,
Bound with food, for the side
of her grandmother’s bed.
Riding Hood met a wolf,
and the wolf he seemed nice
So she told him her plight,
and he gave her advice.
“Pick her some flowers”
is what the animal said,
as a plan began forming
inside his own head.
While she picked her flowers,
the wolf, off he ran.
They were both going to visit
Red Riding Hood’s Gran.
The wolf arrived first
at Grandmother’s gate,
He’d be quiet enough
and inside he would wait.
“Come in little red,
cried Gran from her bed.
But in came the wolf,
who swallowed her instead.
Red Riding Hood arrived
shortly after lunch,
and unleashed her fury
in one killer punch.
After eating poor granny,
the wolf didn’t know,
our heroine had a black belt,
in the art of Tang Soo Do.
Credits:
Advertising Agency: Memac Ogilvy & Mather, Dubai, UAE
Executive Creative Director: Till Hohmann
Creative Director: Dalbir Singh
Art Director: Regina Groffy
Copywriters: James Bisset, Kareem Shuhaibar
Illustrator: Regina Groffy
Via Ads of the World.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Extraordinary by Adam Selzer
Released today: Extraordinary*: *The True Story of My Fairygodparent, Who Almost Killed Me, and Certainly Never Made Me a Princess
by Adam Selzer.
Which appears to win the prize of "cutest" title in a while. Yes, it sounds like it could be related to Ella Enchanted
in plot devices, but it is modern and may appeal to some of the readers in your life. The cover looks more like a B-Grade movie poster, but I'm not the target audience am I? I know I sound jaded, but the book and its author sound like fun, yet the title and cover are somehow off-putting to me. I'll await more buzz and see if it is liked by its primary audience. Here's the usual:
From the publisher:
Jennifer Van Der Berg would like you to know that the book ostensibly written about her—Born to Be Extraordinary by Eileen Codlin—is a bunch of bunk. Yes, she had a fairy godparent mess with her life, but no, she was not made into a princess or given the gift of self-confidence, and she sure as hell didn't get a hot boyfriend out of it.
Here's the REAL scoop . . .
About the Author
Adam Selzer was born in Des Moines and now lives in Chicago, where he writes humorous books for young readers by day and runs ghost tours by night. (If you can find two cooler jobs than those, take them!) He is the author of I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It, The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History, Andrew North Blows Up the World, I Put a Spell on You, Pirates of the Retail Wasteland, and How to Get Suspended and Influence People, and he is just famous enough to have a page on Wikipedia. Check him out on the Web at adamselzer.com.
Advertising: L’Express News Magazine and Chaperon Rouge
L’Express News Magazine and Chaperon Rouge
The more informed we are, the stronger we are.
I don't love this one very much, but it is always to fun to see the various ways LRRH is used in France.
Credits:
Advertising Agency: Bambuck, Paris, France
Art Director: Emmanuel Cendrier
Copywriter: Anthony Clouet, Michael Capgras
Illustrator: Jonny Mendelsson
Via Ads of the World.
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