Scrapbooking...

[fajrdrako]

I finally made my Pirates of the Caribbean pages in my scrapbook. Love it. The scrapbook eally satisfies my need to do something visual and bypasses my inability to draw. After that, I did two more Smallville pages - taken straight from a wonderful magazine called "Arthelius". It even has a Lana page I like - quite a feat! - and I'm itching to use it - but I'd want to use it in tandem with the Chloe page for symmetry, and I don't like the picture of Chloe. A dilemma. So I left it at Lex and Clark. Too bad there was no Lionel.

The magazine has a lot of angelic/demonic types from shows like Charmed and Buffy and Angel. It has a really, really nice picture of Spike... I may do a Spike page.

Then I did two Johnny Depp pages and two Cheryl Tiegs pages. One of the Cheryl Tiegs pages is one I cut out of Glamour magazine when I was about fifteen. The paper is getting brittle but that makes it look even better in the scrapbook.

As I was cutting out pictures of Captain Jack Sparrow (carefully not snipping the bone in his hair) I thought about characters on TV and movies who cut pictures out of magazines - Jodi in the Smallville episode "Craving", or the Joker in the Batman movie. It seems to be a villainous activity. I wonder why.

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O thou villain

[brancher.livejournal.com]

I thought about characters on TV and movies who cut pictures out of magazines - Jodi in the Smallville episode "Craving", or the Joker in the Batman movie. It seems to be a villainous activity. I wonder why.

Villainous because it is fannish. Because cutting out the picture means taking control of the image, releasing it from its previous context, and turning it to your own (dark) purposes. It is a subversive act.

Think of Lex's Locked Room, his shrine to Clark, in which he forces his own reading on the text Clark offers the world -- just as slashers force their reading on the text of "Smallville."

We, the viewers, know that the subtext Lex sees is in fact the truth; this is one of the great jokes that Smallville offers its slashers.

Re: O thou villain

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It is a subversive act.

Ooh, yes! I love being subversive.

Think of Lex's Locked Room, his shrine to Clark

I do. Often. It's a place dear to my heart.

in which he forces his own reading on the text Clark offers the world

Several alternate readings, I would suspect.

just as slashers force their reading on the text of "Smallville."

Subversion indeed. Of the most delightful kind.

know that the subtext Lex sees is in fact the truth; this is one of the great jokes that Smallville offers its slashers.

Exactly. It's like a massive ironic in-joke. People and things are not what they appear, not even the rights and wrongs of actions and motives, and there are secrets within secrets - some of them hidden in the open.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

If you don't like the pic of Chloe, maybe you can find a pic of her that you DO like, trim it to the exact size of the pic you don't like, and then you can drop the new one right down on top

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I thought about that - it's a possibility. But I'm happy too with the Chloe page I already made. The real trick was whether to include the page about Lana Lang. I wasn't going to do a Lana page at all - I was going to totally ignore her. But I really like the page in this magazine, and after considerable humming and hawing, I decided to include it.

Thank you again for the scrapbooking tips. I did find archive-quality glue at the photo shop, and it's working beautifully, much better than the glue I'd previously tried.