Revenge of the Damsels

"At Magic Maggie’s School For The Feminine And Fictional, we wholeheartedly believe that no women’s safety should ever depend on whether or not she’s kissed a frog. A woman should never have to lock her self-worth away in a tower of co-dependence as she waits for some prince to unlock her potential. Instead, we teach our ladies to be their own heroes by giving them the skills they’ll need to face any cunning creature or horrible witch that comes their way." (via shirt.woot)

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The Life Of A Disney Princess

Kiss Elves And Other Tales

Snow White & The Depressing Reality

Some Day My Remixed Prince Will Come

Wishery is another whimsical video and musical remix from electronic music producer Pogo: "This is my track Wishery, comprising vocal syllables, musical chords and sound effects recorded from the 1937 Disney classic Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. Enjoy!" It's sweet, but of course it can't beat out Dwarfed Punk...



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Cyborg Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
Snow White & The Depressing Reality
The Life Of A Disney Princess

CSI Disney

It loses the magic somehow, but I suppose someone has to keep Bruckheimer in hookers and blow. Um, I assume. (Link via Mother Goose & Grimm)

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Dwarfed Punk
Snow White & The Depressing Reality
Cyborg Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs

Cyborg Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs

In this futuristic tale the Queen blows Snow White to pieces with an apple bomb, having learned from an ancient story about a stepdaughter being revived with a kiss. Unbeknownst to her a band of scientists of short stature found her in time, reconstructed her and sent her out for revenge!

Or maybe not. This is Cormac McEvoy's winning entry for Super Punch's SciFi Fairy Tales contest and the back story is know only to him.

Previously on Popped Culture...
Snow White & The Depressing Reality
The Life Of A Disney Princess
Dwarfed Punk

The Life Of A Disney Princess

Disney Princesses, Deconstructed: From Snow White to Belle, if you're hot a man will save you. I feel for all the parents who shepherded little princesses around last night. I just trailed around a pirate. Not a Somali pirate, but still.

From Sociological Issues, who took a nice bit of satire and killed it with treatises on patriarchy, monarchy and Disney as a "force of evil in the world."

Anyone seen the original of this? I looked, but everyone is just referencing the last site they saw it on. Ah well, I tried.

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Twisted Sisters
Snow White & The Depressing Reality
Through The Remixed Looking Glass

Twisted Sisters

Pop culture artist Jeffrey Thomas's Twisted Princesses series shows some not-so-fairytale damsels, exploring a world where there wasn't a happy ending at the end of the story.

Thanks to the fine eye of John at The Zeray Gazette.

Previously at Popped Culture...
Through The Remixed Looking Glass
Dwarfed Punk
Disney: Copy, Paste, Repeat

Snow White & The Depressing Reality

Photographer Dina Goldstein's series Fallen Princesses looks at fairy tale princesses and their harshly realistic modern day lifestyles. Seems not everybody ends happily ever after.


I love the Cinderella photo for the Labbats Blue sign in the corner, which told me Goldstein must be Canadian. Sure enough, she's from Vancouver. Wow, Cinderella goes from being the belle of the ball to a Vancouver dive bar. Harsh. (Link via The Daily What)

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Dwarfed Punk
Grandma, What Informative Graphics You Have!
Not By The Hair Of My Stop Motion Chin

The Seven Jack Nicholsons & The Enchanted Mental Hospital

Pop culture artist Dave MacDowell is a happy new find for me. MacDowell paints in the "Lowbrow/Pop Surrealism movement... focusing on Contemporary Cultural Nightmares," which thrills me to no end.

My favourite out of the dozens and dozens of his painting is The Enchanted Mental Hospital, featuring Jack Nicholson as the Seven Dwarfs. You get Jack from One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Jack from The Shining, Jack from Batman and I'm not sure about the rest. I figure Jack from Five Easy Pieces and maybe Jack from Chinatown.

Anyway, I love the details: the bottle of Red Rum, the Grady girls from The Shining as twin Tinkerbells and a rat with Mickey Mouse ears.

See more at his studio, on his Flickr page and on his blog.

Ok, one more for good measure: The Samuel Jackson 5

(Link via SuperPunch, who shows me the coolest things.)

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Robocop on a unicorn
Angelina Jolie as Our Lady of Celebrity Worship

Dwarfed Punk

The interweb is an odd place. Yesterday I posted a video of Miss Piggy singing a very NSFW song. The day before that is was a video of a Beatles song mashed up with LCD Soundsystem's Daft Punk Is Playing At My House.

So what all of a sudden starts showing up on all my favourite sites? A mashup of Snow White singing Harder Better Faster Stronger by none other than Daft Punk. Weird.

(Link, at least the first one, via Neatorama)