Designer toy photographer Brian McCarty shot this lovely portrait of Hello Kitty. The piece is titled "Three Apples," which according to Ms. Kitty's bio is her weight. Brian writes:
Truly an icon for the time, (Hello Kitty) is a totem and emblem of kinship for devotees of cute. With this realization, it was easy to take another step and cast Hello Kitty not just as a revered symbol, but also as a god.Hello Kitty "Three Apples"
Young Julia Coburn is seen in a desperate (albeit cute) state, floating away under a canopy of balloons. As Hello Kitty looks on, it's purposely unclear as to what role she plays...or will play in Julia's survival.
Previously:
- Hello Kitty 35th anniversary birthday bash at Royal/T in Los ...
- Hello Kitty "Anatomy" series - Boing Boing
- Moon Wanderers photographed by Brian McCarty - Boing Boing
- Brian McCarty: Obama (toy) at the Lorraine Motel - Boing Boing
- Brian McCarty's photo of El Chupacabras - Boing Boing
- Mark Ryden's first toy, photographed by Brian McCarty - Boing Boing
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Three apples?
That means Hello Kitty weighs as much as half a smurf is tall.
I predict that Hello Kitty will do nothing to help Julia. She is not kawai enough to warrant notice. Batz Maru might use his pellet gun to pop a few balloons, but the price for this service may be more than Julia wishes to pay.
Hoax.
I assure you, sir, that Hello Kitty is no hoax. She may be the most real in the multiverse. Look at the largest galactic cluster and the smallest sub-atomic particle, and you will not see a mouth.
I used to be a Hello Kitty Superfan™
but soon quit and joined the United Auto Workers
fp: xlnt take.
Hello Kitty's blank ambivalence to a child's life-threatening circumstance is deeply disturbing, hence, funny. Props to the stylist for resisting the 'hand-up wave', a gesture of awareness that would have ruined H-K's blithe, murderous inaction.
That was my saddest memory.
Hoax = the baloons, dumbass.
I know you meant the balloons. I was being surreal.
And you misspelled balloons, dumbass.
That's the Dumbassistani spelling.
For the record, the balloons are real, Julia is likely somewhere over Colorado right now, and trout.
slightly sinister
Great. Now Wolf Blitzer's going to launch 24/7 coverage of this, too.