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Pictures from Tim Burton’s reimagining of Alice in Wonderland and they’re as fantastically surreal as you’d imagine a Burton production to be. As an exercise, I played with some redesigns for an “Alice in Wonderland” update many years back and interestingly enough I imagined Helena Bonham-Carter’s character from Fight Club as an excellent example of how the Cheshire Cat would act. Feigning and fawning, here and there. And in my version, I suppose Johnny Depp could have stepped in as the White Rabbit. I had imagined the character young, noble, but frightfully timid. Since they’re probably not going to ask me to do designs on the film now, here are a couple of sketches.
I didn’t have MTV when I was a child so I relied mostly on network television for music videos. I would stay up really late on Friday nights just to watch Friday Night Videos, especially for the chance to catch a new Michael Jackson video. The artistry and talent that went into the amazing trifecta of videos (Thriller, Beat It, and Billie Jean) was a phenomenal feat that could arguably be said to be unmatched. I had taped the Motown special on our VCR where he moonwalked, playing it over and over to see where the trick was or if there were any wires. My uncle had bought a VHS tape of Thriller with the special behind the scenes footage showing the making of the video which I watched many, many times. These were some of the things I’d like to remember about the Gloved one, the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.
