These are a fun take on play wings. They look more like capes than
wings so are probably a lot easier to store and move around in. And are
probably way more fluttery :)
Fritz Zuber-Buhler was a Swiss artist who lived in the 1800's. Most of his paintings are portraits, but he does have some fairy ones.
The provided link tells you more about his life and the time period he was painting in. The last half of the second paragraph provides a brief explanation of the picture in colour 'Spirit in the Morning' and how it fit into his style. http://www.rehs.com/fritz_zuber_buhler.html.
Just in case you find yourself home tonight instead of out doing a valentines day activity.. or if you find the whole charade an outrageous, exploitative farse, here is a valentine fairy dress up game you can kill some time with. http://www.dressupwho.com/valentine-fairy-7226.html
This is a cute little cartoon by Silly Symphonies about a mermaid who is captured by a band of drunken pirates. All of the creatures in the sea begin attacking the ship to try to save the mermaid, the best of these is the octopus in my opinion. King Neptune, who was temporarily incapacitated, eventually frees himself and puts the battle to an end.
This is a contemporary fantasy/ paranormal murder mystery kind of series that features a succubus playing a PI.
The story begins with the heroine, Bo, working at a bar. Some sleazy guy tries to give her a drugged drink, and after she shuts him down he moves on to target a young girl. Bo follows them onto an elevator, and just before the guy is about to make him move on the kid, Bo makes a move on him. She kisses him... but the kiss turns into her sucking out his life force. The kid, Kenzi, follows Bo home and becomes her accomplice throughout the series. The police track Bo down and finds out that these two police officers aren't exactly what they seem to be, and neither is she. They take her to a building and a guy tells her that she is fae, and like all of the other fae, she must choose a side to align herself with, light or dark. Bo chooses neither of these and instead strikes out on her own, with Kenzi, and ends up becoming a paranormal PI, to help people with potentially deadly problems others would just laugh off.
The episodes usually involve some sort of unexplainable problem like a kid who disappeared, or a senseless murder, something that is unfortunate, but can be passed of as an everyday issue, it doesn't need an explanation. Bo however is hired, or somehow drawn into this situation and unlike other people, she digs a little deeper and finds out that there is something a little too fantastical about the situation to be normal, and then goes on to discover a different type of fae. Bo of course doesn't know any types of fae, not even what she herself is (until it is explained to her) because she was abandoned by her fae parents to grow up with human foster parents. Her first encounter with her abilities is when she was having her first relationship with a boy. He would up dead. As a succubus, Bo gets energy from feeding off of desire and lust, but as a beginner, she is unable to control herself, and ends up killing whoever she tries to sleep with or kiss, as humans can't take her power.
Bo's ultimate objective is to find out who her parents were and why they abandoned her.
When I first heard of the series I didn't really want to watch it. It sounded campy and cheesy and striving to be another CSI spinoff show. When I actually got into it however I really started to enjoy it. Yes it does have it's share of cheesy lines, cheesy cheesy lines, but the story is good. A private investigator is actually a perfect occupation to introduce people who don't know about the faerie world to the different kinds of fae. A PI ignorant of the fae is even better. If you're not too comfortable with sexuality this show might make you a little uncomfortable. There isn't any showing of parts, but it's a show about a succubus, so sex will be involved. She has sex to heal herself as well as to feed, and she doesn't pay attention to little things like gender. Where I am now in the show she has two potential lovers, rivals in love if you will, and one is a man, a werewolf, and the other is a human woman. As would be expected of a show of this nature, there is also a bit of gore. The show really grows on you though. I was skeptical at first, but I'm actually really looking forward to watching the next episode.
This is a mini-series that the SyFy network put out (the same people who made the Tin Man mini-series for those who’ve seen that. If not I recommend that you do).
Have you ever wondered who Peter Pan was before he became Peter Pan and why he can’t remember who he is? Why isn’t he like the other lost boys and more like a faerie? Who was Captain Hook before he was Captain Hook and why does hate Peter Pan so much? What is Neverland and how did they all end up there?
This series is sort of an origins series and answers all of those questions and more. The story opens in turn-of-the-century London, England. Peter and the lost boys are a gang of pickpockets, who all report to one Jimmy Hook. Certain events result in them all being mysteriously sent to a foreign land, a foreign planet. From there alliances are made, and broken. Many things are discovered, both by the characters about this new land and themselves, as well as by the audience, as they discover how and why things are as they are in Barrie’s end product.
I’ve always loved the story of Peter Pan and I have to say that I really enjoyed this mini-series. There were some slip-ups here and there (like Peter’s new sensory abilities being able to locate the smallest things, but then failing when there’s a huge spider behind him). I thought the explanations were well done and plausible and the series over all was very active and imaginative. I was captivated from the outset, the story really drew me in and kept me wanting to know more. Other than the sensory thing, the one thing I didn’t really like was how Tinker Bell and the other fairies were depicted. I thought that there were many more options that would have been more successful, with either character actors or computer graphics. I was really disappointed when I saw the fairies. On a lighter note, Smee is played by the same actor that played him in Hook.
Overall, I recommend it.
Here’s the trailer
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) was one of the most important ballerinas of the 20-th century. Unlike other female ballerinas of the time she were very muscular and shapely, she was very slender and fragile-looking. She was most noted for her roll in the ballet The Dying Swan, and was the first ballerina to tour the world. The following photographs were shot by Ira L. Hill . For more information on Anna Pavlova you can check out this website http://www.russianballethistory.com/annapavlovathelegend.htm
Here is a fan posted video of a Pavlova dancing a couple of minutes of The Dragonfly
This is a cute little musical short by Merrie Melodies about a couple of mermaids who find a sunken treasure ship. The two play a little, the boy doing a little Charlie Chaplin imitation, when all of a sudden an octopus kidnaps the girl and the boy must go save her! A lot of the time the mermaids walk on their fins as if they were feet rather than swim. It’s a fun little cartoon.
This is a fun little spin folder that asks the eternal question... What would fairy do? There are several actions surrounding a picture of a fairy, and after flicking the spinner, the arrow will point a an action that you can do! Or try to do anyway.
This is an app for your phone/ iPad/ what have you, featuring a fairy named Lila. From the looks of it there isn't that much to it. There is basically a CG fairy against a backdrop and she sings and casts spells, sometimes summoning some animals.
I have never been to Disneyland, but apparently there are mermaids to be seen there! This is a video of a pair of mermaids hanging out in the pool at the Disneyland hotel.
Not only are there mermaids there now, but there have been mermaids there for some time! Here is some family's home video of their 1964 trip to Disneyland. The mermaids are at 1:34 if you don't feel like watching the whole thing.
Beus is another digital fantasy artist. Not much of his work is faerie-centric, but he displays a definite skill and is worth checking out nonetheless.
ThinkGeek.com has released a new electronic toy featuring a pet firefly in a jar. All it needs are batteries to keep it lit. For all of you faerie adventurers, a firefly lantern is much better than just a plain old lantern for searching out evil faeries of finding faerie homes, etc. It can even be your own personal Tinkerbell locked away.
Everyone knows that around Christmas time you have to be extra good, because if you're not Santa won't bring you any presents. Well... what if you were treated to a punishment rather than the reward system for bad behaviour? What if in fact there were serious... life threatening... consequences for being bad. In such a case we would meet the Krampus.
The Christmas Krampus is a mythological figure that appears in some mountainous-regioned European traditions. The Krampus accompanies Santa on his night long journey, and while Good Ol' St. Nick gives good little boys and girls presents, Krampus on the other hand punishes bad children and warns them to be good. If he finds any particularly bad children, he stuffs them in a bag and steals the children away to maybe eat them later on. I bet you're wishing for the coal now aren't ya.
The Christmas Krampus looks kind of like a little devil. Some interpretations have sort of a yeti look, others a more traditional devil, complete with hooves and horns.
There are some histories and further information on these pages here.
As you can guess from the title, this movie is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet… with gnomes. Going into this movie I quite honestly had very low expectations. As they stated in the movie itself, more than once, this is an old story that has been retold many times. However, though it took maybe half of the film for the story to engage me, it ended on a good note and I didn’t regret watching it.
The story takes place in the garden of a semi-detached house. The owners, last names Montague and Capulet of course, are a middle-aged to elderly pair or neighbours who loathe each other and toss insults at the other on site. Both neighbours have gardens and their garden ornaments seem to have adopted the feuding nature of their owners. One side is decorated in blue and the other in red. They either try to out-do their enemies by creating a better garden than their opponents, or more destructively, try to sabotage their enemy’s garden. On the night of one such sabotaging raid, Juliet sneaks out of her garden because she sees a beautiful flower that will make their garden superior. In samurai style, she disguises herself in a black sock (and has a fishing pole she holds like a katana) and proceeds to leap and run along the alley fences toward her goal. Gnomeo, escaping from a failed raid, sees dark figure and intrigued, follows it to its unknown destination. He sees the flower also and as the two of the grab for it at the same time, their eyes lock and they are stunned by their attraction to each other (both in disguise). After a little flirtation stealing of the flower from one another, they fall into some water and their identities are revealed. And there continues the story of their deciding to meet secretly despite clan differences and the problems that arise. Will they ever be happy?!?!
Though the movie on the whole wasn’t amazing, it wasn’t overly clichéd either, which was refreshing. There were one or two side stories that varied the forbidden love theme to keep the viewer guessing. However it wasn’t at all a complex story line. An interesting little twist they did stick into the story however was a small chat Gnomeo has with a statue of Shakespeare. The Shakespeare statue listens to Gnomeo’s situation and says that he’s heard a story like it before, and that it ended in the lovers dying. Gnomeo then goes off to prevent this from happening to him. Elton John had a hand in the soundtrack so it's pretty decent.
Overall, a nice movie if you want to introduce Shakespeare to children who don’t read, but not a classic.
As some people may be aware, there is a recreational drug called Pixie Dust. It's a combination of LSD, or 'acid', a hallucinogenic drug, and ketamine, or 'the date rape drug' a dissociative anesthetic used primarily by veterinarians that gives the user a sense of detachment.
In a way it's kind of understandable how drugs can be related to fairies. Faeries- fantasy- escapism- drugs. There are many reasons people take drugs. It could be a peer pressure thing, or it could be an experimental phase, the need to please, or you could be dealing with some really horrible things in your life and just need to get away.
The last one kind of strikes a chord with me... not because my life is very hard, or because I've taken hard drugs, but because every once in a while, people just need a break. In a way, this is why fantasy exists. Sometimes people want to escape into another world, or want to venture off into another world. To do this some people play video games, some people use work, some people use fantasy, and some people use drugs. Excessive amounts of anything is not good... but somethings are better to go overboard with than others. If for whatever reason, you throw your self into work so as to avoid something and never have time for anything else, you may have absolutely no social life and may never laugh. But the positive side of that could be that you've probably got some cash in the bank and are maybe climbing some corporate ladder to 'succeed' in life. Alternately, if you take too many hard drugs, you will be antisocial just because you're too inebriated to do anything but lay like an empty husk. There aren't really many upsides to speak of to offset the negatives of this choice. Everyone indulges in a little escapism every once in a while, and that's ok. Actually it can be fun, but if you end up depending on that escapism like a beat up housewife needs her man, go get some help because you need it... no matter which form of escapism you use. Choose your weapon wisely because in a way, it will define you.
