Disney’s ‘Blue – My Life in the Movies’ Starring Pinocchio
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Disney’s ‘Blue – My life in the movies’ starring Pinocchio
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Since we came up with the DUCK! piece a short while back i haven’t been able to get Disney characters off my mind. This time it’s Pinocchio that receives the id-iom treatment…
I had thought ‘BLUE – A life in the movies’ to be a biopic of the life of Pinocchio charting his early rise to fame following the Blue Fairy bringing him to life, a tragic lost period in his late teens and his monumental return to (adult) movies following a minor bid of body modification at the hands of a highly skilled Italian woodcarver.
I’ve clearly got an overactive imagination as i had Pinocchio’s life all worked out… After being a child star for Disney and enjoying all the trappings that would have come with it I imagined that Pinocchio would have had a few years of coke fuelled paranoia living in Hollywood whilst failing to get role after role as he was too typecast and the fact that “there isn’t all that much demand for sentient puppets anymore” – apart from maybe some seriously demeaning kid’s TV work. After a failed comeback on Big Brother or some similar reality TV show he’d slowly slip off the world’s media radar and spiral into a few years of failed relationships, drug abuse, debt and anonymity. Then, after a debauched weekend with an old friend they finally come up with what, even at the time, seems like a ridiculous and outlandish idea – that Pinocchio should take advantage of his old friend’s contacts, get a nose job and then start making some serious money again. He’s just desperate enough to give it a try and so one week after his return from Italy (where he’s been for surgery) he makes his triumphant come back to movies – this time of the pornographic variety. His rapid ascent to the zenith of the adult entertainment industry takes everyone by surprise and before he knows it he’s churning out porno’s at a prodigious rate and his star is once again in ascendancy. Before long he is a bonafide celebrity again and even Ron Jeremy concedes that he’s certainly ‘Got wood!’
I could keep going on and I’m sure i could actually come up with a decent script for this film (the visuals and adwork are clearly already done). I’d love it to be some kind of animatronic and/or animated tour de force. Basically i’m pretty sure it won’t be long till i’m working in Hollywood…
Keen eyed readers will (i’m sure) have immediately noted the use of part of the Electric Blue logo for the title of film (for those few uneducated readers that don’t know Electric Blue was a soft core porn show that was made in the UK and was shown on the Playboy channel in the 80?s) and therefore also the use of the Playboy bunny logo on Pinocchio’s top. The ‘Got wood?’ tagline was perhaps my favourite touch though as surely all the creatives in Hollywood couldn’t have come up with anything better for this film! As with DUCK! and Oswald the Unlucky Rabbit I would love to see this film get made…
Finally, on the art front, I just love working on the found bits of wood. It obviously works well for this particular piece as he’s a wooden puppet that comes to life but they are just really nice to work on generally and have a great weathered look to them. Now i’ve just got to get them framed to give them that final touch.
Cheers
id-iom
Title: Disney’s ‘Blue – My life in the movies’ starring Pinocchio
Media: Hand cut stencils and spraypaint on found wooden board
Size: 57 cm x 21 cm
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Mannheim DARE
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64 students of Mannheim Middle School’s eighth grade are proud graduates of the Mannheim Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or DARE
program, conducted by Mannheim Military Police officers in cooperation with school officials. As part of the educational program, students competed in writing poems, with the best poem written by Alejandra Diaz and creating posters – best poster by Katja V. Miller – depicting the theme of living drug-free.
An even larger group of students, parents and educators had gathered at the Mannheim Elementary School with 104 5th graders being awarded their DARE certificates. Guest speaker LTC D. Lon Walker, Deputy USAREUR Provost Marshal, who has been called up for active military duty after being a
police chief in Marshalltown, Iowa, for many years, shared impressive data
about drug abuse in the United States and within USAREUR with the audience, getting the students’ attention and another commitment to stay drug free. German police officers from the Mannheim police BFV sub-station, mounted police and motorcycle group were on hand for a display and interaction with children and adults following the ceremony.
Mannheim DARE instructors, Staff Sgt. Jerry Brown and Sgt. Heather Demski both expressed how much they enjoyed the 10-week-program of interaction with students and teachers, not only as welcome break from their routine jobs in the law enforcement business, but as a most interesting and rewarding experience. (photo by Christine Gebhard, USAG Mannheim)