January 31st, 2010 by Amanda

Photographer Rosanna Anson did a photo series involving a girl and a bear. I’m not sure whether to think this is cute and sweet, a girls fantasy of being friends with a bear, or if it’s more of a Furry type of thing….either way her clothes are really cute.

Leave us a comment and let us know what your fantasies in-real-life are, even if it’s holding hands with a bear in a forest. We want to know!! (Nothing dirty please.)

January 12th, 2010 by Sydney

Star Wars Burlesque night @ Bordello in Los Angeles.  The C3PO chick really freaks me out.

via boingboing via LAWeekly

January 2nd, 2010 by Sydney

Production still from my latest video shoot. I’ll post the final cut once I’m done editing.

December 13th, 2009 by Sydney

Photographer Brian Ulrich has been investigating the plight of American consumer culture, documenting dead malls and other franchises as they sit abandoned in ruins.  Looking at these, I half expect zombies or cannibals to pop out at me.  They are utterly horrifying (but in the prettiest way possible).  Should we be worried?  Yeah, I think so.

Interested in seeing more on this subject?  Another photographic series to look into is Walead Beshty’s “The Phenomenology of Shopping + Dead Mall.”

(via io9)

December 13th, 2009 by Amanda

This is creepy as hell, but I love it. See more.

October 17th, 2009 by Sydney

This is a series of photographs that I took this last spring.  The project was called Future-Speak, which is also the name of my other blog.  For this project, I conducted a number of shot interviews in the form of questionnaires that asked what people thought the future was going to be like.  From their answers, I gathered a general sense their kind of collective future and produced these seven photographs illustrating what I thought that future looked like.  To accompany the photographs, I made a sound piece which I thought further created a sort of futuristic environment in which the photos could be viewed.  Eventually these photos will be up on my personal website (the one that I never have time to make) as apart of my portfolio.

Listen to the sound here.

October 10th, 2009 by Amanda

Via: Steapunk Fashion

“These are pictures from the Fresh Fruits Basket fashion show that kicks off SGMS every year. You may click here for a short video from last year’s show. The headliners of the show were from The Libertine Asylum You can read what they are all about here if you would like.

All Photos are taken and edited by Drayke Larson of Photosynthetique Imaging His LJ is rez_olution feel free to check him out too!

The pictures are from steampunk designer Heather Luca of SCOUNDRELLES KEEP. Her corsets are THE BEST!!!

Hope you enjoy!”

October 9th, 2009 by Sydney

I recently helped Fantasy IRL blogger Amanda shoot photos for her makeup artist portfolio (website coming soon).   For this particular series, we were going for a sort of android/retro/Stepford wife kinda thing.  Since I was actually in these photos, we had our friend Justin (also known as sunnyheadcase on this blog) shoot them on my Nikon D90.  They were shot at Amanda’s house, which was built in the 1950’s, the perfect location for such a shoot.

The concept was pretty simple.  I’m an android women that lonely men can buy and take as their wife.  When you first buy me, I come naked and without hair.  I also come with a set of three wigs that you can switch in and out at your leisure.  The creepy husband/Italian Futurist-looking guy is played by my boyfriend, Joey.  Thank to Joey and Justin for helping us out!

September 23rd, 2009 by Amanda

HOLY SHIT!! Okay so, some of you may remember this thing from a previous post.
If not please click here…

…Okay now that we’re all caught up, I was reading Strawberry Anarchy today and came across this.

“Hey readers, you may have heard of this before but I thought I would blog about it as I wanted to have a discussion about it! This strange creature has been found and nobody can really explain what it is! Apparently some kids were playing beside the water and this thing came crawling out of the water/cave they thought it was going to attack them so they threw stones at it and killed it, they threw it into the water then it was washed up a few days later! In the video you can see the carcass of this animal too! And you will see this was most definitely found and not a hoax! I have included a photo of a sloth as many think this is just a bald sloth. Either way a bald sloth has never been spotted before now so this is still pretty strange also the fact it came out of the water does not make sense either.”

So, I don’t know about you all, but the first thing that popped into my head was the Montauk Monster (please see picture at top of page). What the hell man?! Why would those kids kill it?! It needs to be studied! So here’s the million dollar question, just a simple cute sloth? Or creepy mysterious monster?

September 23rd, 2009 by Amanda

These are the most amazing sand castles I’ve ever seen, well I guess they’re not really sand “castles”, well whatever they are, they are out of this world. Unfortunately, I have no idea where they are.

“African elephants, the Egyptian sphinx, Batman, Spiderman, the incredible Hulk and also other super heroes, movie and TV show characters are just some of many giant sculptures transforming a seaside resort. The most amazing part about this is that the sculptures are made entirely out of sand.” No Labyrinth though. Has anybody ever made a labyrinth out of sand? Now that I’d like to see.

Click here to see them all.

September 3rd, 2009 by Sydney

This is kind of old news but I thought I’d mention it anyways.  Our photos from Las Vegas Star Trek Convention 2009 have been up on the main site now for a while.  Here are some highlights:

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August 9th, 2009 by Amanda

If this doesn’t embody fantasy in real life, I don’t know what does.

io9 says:

“If Star Wars Was Real retells the history of the 20th century with some added players, offering up a Photoshopped-fantasia of nerditry and “What If”s. Click through to see more.”

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August 8th, 2009 by Amanda

I went on a hunt today for the best real life Pokemon I could find. Unfortunately, I was not able to catch them all, but luckily I caught ten of them.

Cubone.

Pikachu.

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August 7th, 2009 by Amanda

Even Master Chief mows the lawn.

Thank you sunnyheadcase for submitting this.
Also thank you to Kotaku and WinterWolf Studios.

August 4th, 2009 by Amanda

We just can’t get enough Steampunk. This was a Steampunk picnic held at The New York Renaissance Faire in Tuxedo, New York. Oh, if only I lived in New York…

Here are some pictures from the event. The little kids are my favorite!!

Thank you every one who took pictures. You can view them all here.