 | ― Or, as my grandmother once put it to my mother: ‘Your father would be a wonderful man, if only he were different. ― Ha ― Yes, ha. A whole epic of pain and suffering reduced to a single sentence. ― Matrimony as a swamp, as a lifelong exercise in self-delusion. |
About the Honey Pie project:
Her lips are full pink. Her teal green eyes are intense and inviting. Her black eyeliner accentuates her high cheekbones and her strawberry hair complements her light African skin. Her metallic halter dress holds her supple thighs and pushes on her round breast. She is the result of careful attention and workmanship. When you see her up close, you can’t help but stare. At $6000, she’s certainly not a cheap date. For creator Matt McMullen, she’s a work of art. For everyone else, she’s a Real Doll.
California is a place also produced a video of their visit to the Real Doll factory. Read an interview with Matt McMullen over at the MONK Magazine. Visit the official website of Real Doll and learn more about those on wikipedia.
California is a place is produced, directed, and shot by Drea Cooper & Zackary Canepari. Full credit for the Honey Pie project :
On Camera: Matt McMullen
Produced by: Zackary Canepari & Drea Cooper
Directed by: Drea Cooper & Zackary Canepari
Cinematography by: Drea Cooper & Zackary Canepari
Edited by: Drea Cooper
Still Photographer: Zackary Canepari
Music Composed & Produced by: Dave Janusko and Skyrider
The photos above were taken by Zackary Canepari : visit his blog and official website for more of his work.
| There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. In the dark, the fear of an unexpected touch can mount to panic. Even clothes give insufficient security: it is easy to tear them and pierce through to the naked, smooth, defenceless flesh of the victim. All the distances which men create round themselves are dictated by this fear. They shut themselves in houses which noone may enter, and only there feel some measure of security. The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. |
| So the community does you no damn good! |
Who ever said that community was supposed to do good things for you? Really? I’m aware that most of us think that way, but where is this idea coming from? And what about another idea : community is a problem, not a solution. Consider this:
(…) what is meant by this word body politic, and how it signifieth not the concord, but the union of many men.
We are together, yes, but not necessarily because we love or agree with each other. This quote is taken from the book Elements of Law by Thomas Hobbes, chap. 8, §7, 1650.
| We went to the movies because we were trying to learn how to be alone together. |
Previously on Skandalon: Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo
| On dirait qu’il y a dans le sujet humain comme une pulsion de loi. |
Roland Barthes poursuit en donnant pour exemple une scène inaugurale du roman The Lord of The Flies (Golding) : “(…) dès que les enfants découvrent qu’ils vont être leurs propres maîtres sur l’île, passage instantanné de l’état de nature à l’état de règlement, et donc de loi. Jack : «On aura des règlements, s’écria-t-il avec enthousiasme. Des tas de règlements. Alors ceux qui désobéiront…»”
Sans doute une autre illustration peut-elle être mise en lumière dans le film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).
| How do you know that you’re the one? You don’t know. It’s a shot in the dark. You take it or you become a normal civilized person from 8 to 5… Get married have children… Christmas together… Here comes gramma : «Hi gramma, come on in… Hi you…». You know… Sure I couldn’t take that, I would have murder myself. |
