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caltha
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[2001-06-19 19:26:42 +0000 UTC]
"Tove Ingeborg Elin Solander"
(Sweden)
# Statistics
Favourites: 441; Deviations: 97; Watchers: 153
Watching: 40; Pageviews: 33365; Comments Made: 2664; Friends: 40
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: http://caltha.atomkinder.net/art.htmlFavorite movies: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow, Ed Wood, Girl King...
Favorite bands / musical artists: Paris, Lil Kim, Tiamat, Etta James, Elend, Kaizers Orchestra, Janis Joplin, Gogol Bordello...
Favorite writers: Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, Sarah Waters, Stella Kleve, Algot Sandberg, Inger Edelfeldt...
Favorite games: Sims, Diablo, Quake, Heroes of Might and Magic, Grim Fandango...
Tools of the Trade: Canon FTb QL, darkroom, film, light, makeup, chemicals, filters, glue-on beard...
Other Interests: photography, literature, shopping, makeup, fashion, music, styles, art, history, queer feminism...
# About me
Current Residence: Uppsala, SwedenFavourite genre of music: metal, goth, synth, pop, folk, 60ies & 70ies soul and blues, electroclash...
Favourite photographer: Jan Saudek, Cindy Sherman, Sally Mann, Emil Schildt, Claude Calhun, Lina Solander...
Favourite style of art: timeless, retro, riotgrrl, classy gothic, not cheesy gothic, circus, fairytale, vintage...
Favourite cartoon character: Tank girl, Spider Jerusalem, Ren, Stimpy, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair...
Personal Quote: I have nothing against digital photography, I just don't think it's photography.
# Comments
Comments: 310
Your stock was used here:
mors-infinnita.deviantart.com/β¦
I hope you like it!
Thanks!
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Thank you for checking out my gallery!
Mucho appreciated
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What's up
I took this new free iQ quiz my friend showed me. you should check it out. just CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE FREE IQ TEST
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Hi take the free IQ QUIZ! I just found out mine.
CLICK HERE
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Hey you have a great gallery - lots of fun, very inspiring! Am gonna go try out some stubble now!
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FTb QL !!! I lately work with a FT QL, the "grand father" of the F1 and FTb
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Yeah..!..met her also, a few years back...think she's a bit of a wanker since our meeting....blew all my dreams away....
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Nice gallery...was wondering when I was going to find an artist like yourself..thought I'd hopefully one-day stumble across Del-Lagrace Volcano...but..your the first F2M..gender player I've seen...like your taste...Cindy Sherman, Jeanette Winterson, Tank Girl, and so many others...anyways..you rock..
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Hej! Det var lΓ€nge sedan, men jag skaffade mig just en anvΓ€ndare, och sΓ₯ mindes jag att du fanns hΓ€r.
Kul att se alla bilder och hoppas allt Γ€r vΓ€l med dig!
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Johnny Depp-karaktΓ€rerna var fasligt fina och bra gjorda
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Nice to see you around again !!! hope you remember me
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Jag kollade just mina "grannar" och sΓ₯g din avatar. 
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Finally!
I found someone else who does Gender-bending stuff!
Although it's the reverse for me, in this case.
I haven't seen many Female->Male Gender-bending, DA or otherwise. Very nice stuff. It's not often that this can be done as well as you do.
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Finally a gender-fucker in this place. Such talent! lovely!
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O_o the pic man/woman is amazing......
I admit it alarm me a bit^^
Well, nice work
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Thanks for the note and letting me join the club. You have a very unique style and I dig that. Ohh, I was looking for Kutna Hora pics? Not on here I guess. I have the exact same Barcelona pic of the Gaudi church. I shit you not.
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grah, jag tror jag har sagt det pΓ₯ QX redan men den dΓ€r bilden du har som Dev ID are SΓ SNYGG. VΓ€ldigt vΓ€lgjord makeup.
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Cheers for the comments and what not a while ago - all very much appreciated 
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thank you very much for your kind comments - I'm going to take a look at your gallery withing the next few days
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all right! full frame 0% digital manip photos with attitude. that's what i like to see
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Hahaha tack sΓ₯ mycket fΓΆr anmΓ€la!
(Yes I know my Swedish is awful but I can only learn by sucking so hard that people take pity on me and correct me haha. 
My favorite part in Puss-in-Boots is when he crawls into the sack. That was a splendid idea! I also love what lured him in.
Also, picking a curvy 'Boots was a sweet idea, sistah!
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Well I don't need to take pity on you, the only mistake you made was leaving out the n in "anmΓ€lan".
Actually, the princess being lured into the sack is a drag king, so I guess it's technically a "she", albeit in a fake moustache.
I initially picked as Puss-in-boots, but she cancelled in the very last minute and made me force my sister to take her place. I'm happy with the result though, Sanna would have made a more salty puss, she can do all those funny faces, but Lina was fine too, especially with her pink hair and all.
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you have a nice "cleaned up gallery"...
I'll be devWatching you!..
LION
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You portraits are very good indeed....
I am a digital painter, and would love the opportunity to do a collab...
check my gallery and drop me a note if interested.
-J-
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many thanks for all your commente - really appreciated!!
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your work is splendid. Particularly those in black and white, quite as expressive... I spent a good moment has to look at this marvellous gallery ^^
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In regards to your "Little Mermaid" series --
I love the idea of it. I remember a film project similiar to this that I saw while in Berlin. It involved a girl who had gills and was obviously more comfortable in the ocean but had a lover on land. There was a certain mystery given to the whole situation. Then there was the van they drove that towards the back spiraled in on itself like a pupa, like a seashell.
However, in terms of your project I wonder several things. First off the different photo sizes throughout feel ragged. This is a story, and a story has a consistent frame, no? Also, I feel that the story would be better if perhaps it was cut down somewhat. I think it would be more concise, and more mysterious.
There are very few emotions throughout the piece, so why not focus on them? The actions of the Prince can be read into very well, but why is he so blank? He doesn't need to stink of his feelings, he need only have a micro-emotion that looks as if it somehow weaseled through his defenses. Does he feel no joy at his shedding his clothes?
I think this is a fantastic idea but that it isn't completely finished. That, or I'm just not seeing your vision properly, which is very possible.
I'd love to know your thoughts in return.
Skeptically,
Pierrot
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In the original story, there is little joy. The mermaid is drawn to the prince although it causes her nothing but pain. Perhaps, in my version, the prince isn't very joyous either? Perhaps he's afraid of the water, but forced to follow the mermaid? Perhaps he can't live underwater, just like the little mermaid can't live on land without having her tail transformed to legs, perhaps he never finds the mermaid but drowns, like in the old stories about mermaids? I want the story to be open for interpretations...
Actually, I instructed the model about his expression twice, first to look surprised in one shot, and then to smile at the mermaid in one. Those were the shots I think turned out the worst. In the rest, I just instructed him about what to do.
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True, the original story is utterly tragic. What I read into it is the significance of your focusing on his undressing. Have you ever read the French Lai Bisclavret? In this story a knight must take off his clothes before he can transform into a werewolf, and must put them back on before he can again become human. In that sense the clothes are the expectations of society put over the baseness, wildness, of the true human condition.
Here, the two lovers join, but why? As much as ultimately their attraction will cause them only pain -- why would they bother if they didn't feel something for each other? What do they feel? Why? We have the mermaid who can not join society, who can not wear clothes, and the Prince, who must strip his societal self to join her. What do they symbolize? Shouldn't she express concern about his clothing? Awe, befuddlement, curiousity?
Intrigued,
Pierrot
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Perhaps she expresses nothing? Or nothing but curiosity, amusement, desire, like he was a strange and beautiful toy? And when she can't reach him she just forgets all about it and leaves? (Somehow like the prince treats the mermaid in the original story, like a toy or servant, not a human or lover) Because she's not a human, she's a mermaid, she has only instincts, no emotions. Perhaps this has nothing to do with love, at all, only allure. I don't know.
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Hmm, allure makes more sense. However, why as a mermaid should she be devoid of love? Love among social creatures is instinctual. It's not one of the emotions we're born with (fear, disgust, happy, sad, etc.) but rather a system, a web, of all those emotions into something beyond the sum of their parts. The capacity to love is something we're born with. Mermaids may live in the sea, but they live together, no? They're not quite animal, not quite human. I do think it's good to ask what makes them non-human, but I don't think the answer is or should be soul...
Thoughtful,
Pierrot
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Well, that's your view on love and on mermaids...
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Yeah, which I only meant to suggest for commentary, but I guess it's not open to discussion?
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What is there to discuss, really? My commentary is "that's your view". That's your view, that's mine. What else could we possibly do, agree on how mermaids "really are"?
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Sigh. No. I wanted a discussion on differing theories, critical thinking, etc. You wanted only to express your view, and defend it in your piece as the "correct" view. If we're at an impass, it's from your lack of willingness, not mine.
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