HQ- Miles McMillan // 2016 Polaroids/Portraits – FW ‘16
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While I was hunting for tacky stock photos to use as bad VC aesthetics, I found some interesting results for “same sex parents”.
This is sincerely amazing.
I saw someone asking about if vampires could have their picture taken and IIRC in Merrick Louis had a photograph of Claudia so it seems like vampires can have their picture taken right?
Yes, that’s in Merrick. It seems like Ricean vampires can be captured with photography, film, and video.
[^X not quite the right Claudia, but this is an evocative photo titled Livia by Frederick Sommer.]
Louis tells David about it:
“But the photographs, the daguerreotypes, that’s what she wanted, the real image of herself on glass…. But then years later, when we reached Paris, in those lovely nights before we ever happened upon the Théâtre des Vampires and the monsters who would destroy her, she found that the magic pictures could be taken at night, with artificial light!“
He seemed to be reliving the experience painfully, I remained quiet.
“You can’t imagine her excitement. She had seen an exhibit by the famous photographer Nadar of pictures from the Paris catacombs. Pictures of cartloads of human bones. Nadar was quite the man, as I’m sure you know. She was thrilled by the pictures. She went to his studio, by special appointment, in the evening, and there this picture was made."
He came towards me.
"It’s a dim picture. It took an age for all the mirrors and the artificial lamps to do their work. And Claudia stood still for so long, well, only a vampire child might have worked such a trick. But she was very pleased with it. She kept it on her dressing table in the Hotel Saint-Gabriel, the last place that we ever called our home. We had such lovely rooms there. It was near to the Opera. I don’t think she ever unpacked the painted portraits. It was this that mattered to her. I’d actually thought she would come to be happy in Paris. Maybe she would have been … But there wasn’t time. This little picture, she felt it was only the beginning, and planned to return to Nadar with an even lovelier dress.”
i was just wondering if we could tag you in stuff? ^3^
Please do! I liked getting tagged and I see it in my activity feed *u*
…But also, please don’t feel bad if I don’t reblog/respond to smtg you tag me in, I don’t see everything I’m tagged in. I’m also very picky about what I reblog and what askmemes I respond to, trying not to spam ppl’s dash, y’know?
It’s still so flattering that you like me in addition to my blog content, I’m so touched when you want to tag me in Ask memes! But I also feel like I myself am not VC enough, so I can’t really justify answering a lot of those *laughcries*
Also as a reminder, my Lestat muse (and Louis muse) cannot have real threads with any muses, I’m sorry to say. They are for Asks only. There isn’t enough time to RP with everyone who asks, and I would feel bad that I would have to choose which to do, and make some people feel left out.
Hello, I wonder if vampire can be taken a picture? Can their image show up in photos?
//ooc; idk about other vampires, it varies. The What We Do in the Shadows vampires could have photos taken of them, but couldn’t see their own reflection in mirrors *shrugs*.
Ricean vampires can see their own reflections in mirrors.
Omg, I totally forgot about this, but apparently Khayman has mental photoshop powers?? From QOTD:
[Khayman] liked the libraries where he could find photographs of ancient monuments in big smooth good-smelling
books. He took his own photographs of the new cities around him and sometimes he could put images onthese pictures which came from his thoughts. For example, in his photograph of Rome there were Roman
people in tunics and sandals superimposed upon the modern versions in their thick ungraceful clothes.
I headcanon that Ricean vampires can be photographed, and they take selfies…
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When he sneakin’ kisses from the bae and ya get jealous even though y’all ain’t official
by @kotilae]
Jesse also sees photos of Armand in QOTD:
David had put something in her hand. Reluctantly she took her eyes off the painting. She found herself
staring at a tintype, a late-nineteenth-century photograph. After a moment, she whispered: “This is the same
boy!““Yes. And something of an experiment,” David said. “It I was most likely taken just after sunset in impossible
lighting conditions which might not have worked with another subject. Notice not much is really visible but
his face.” True, yet she could see the style of the hair was of the period. I “You might look at this as well,”
David said. And this time he gave her an old magazine, a nineteenth-century journal, the I kind with narrow
columns of tiny print and ink illustrations. There was the same boy again alighting from a barouche-a I hasty
sketch, though the boy was smiling.
lestat: the stars sure are beautiful tonight, mon cher.
louis: yes, they are…
lestat: you know what else is beautiful?
louis, blushing: what?
lestat: me.
What is that liquid Louis uses to burn the theater down? Wine?
That’s kerosene. Used in lighting oil lamps at that time, too.
(^From a draft of the script.)
Apparently, “kerosene in its natural state is a clear, colorless liquid. To comply with U.S. federal tax law, kerosene is dyed red.” [X] Idk what colors it came in Paris in 1860-5ish, when Louis burned down the TdV… 😛
The fact that it came in a keg like that, and that alcohol is flammable, one could easily mistake it in the movie for wine. So many victims bled to death on that stage, and then considering that Lestat had told Louis to pretend blood was wine, I think it makes sense that this kerosene is amber/red in the movie, figuratively, it seems to be blood or wine, even if that color might be wrong historically.
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