A young girl, her body still tender from childhood, yet her on her chest are the soft swells of her small, growing breasts, her hips starting to widen, her body curving, all roundness and softness, and hair sprouting abover her sex and under her arms. Her red cloak, the color of blood, symbolizes menstruation, and upon putting it on she embraces womanhood, accepts the blood smeared on her inner thighs as part of her life from now on.

As she sets off down the road to her grandmother's house she also sets off into the road of life. She was given instructions to stay on the path that leads specifically to her grandmother's house, made and followed by generations before. These aren't just instructions, these are conventions, one that she must follow to be a functional and productive part of society. As a woman she must follow the approved decorum of a woman, she must never stray from the path, deviate from what she is supposed to be. 

But on the way she meets the wolf and its feral nature is alluring and exotic. But it isn't the danger she must stay away from. It is a danger, or a danger like her elders and her society says. But it is her sexuality and in engaging in a conversation with it, she starts to embrace it. She gradually becomes a sexual creature, as strong and independent, and certainly as uncontrallable, as the wolf. 

The woodsman, her saviour from the big, bad wolf, is the patriarchal society that Red lives in. He is the convention, the lawmaker, the  big man in charge of what things should be. By saving Red, he prevents her from embracing her sexuality and he convinces her that the wolf is bad for her, that being sexual creature isn't something she should be. The wolf dies an undignified death, all guts and offal exposed and it's blood spilt on the ground.

But that's in the old tale. REd knows she cannot always follow convention, that she doesn't need any saving and the wolf doesn't really pose as a danger. But the wolf will try to consume her, as it is in its nature. So Red will take matters into its own hands and tame it, be the master of her own sexuality.

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I love all the little red riding hood reimaginations here on hitrecord and I just wanted to play upon it with something my university English professor (who was very brilliant) discussed in class. We were reading "The Politically Correct Little Red Riding Hood" ( i may have the title wrong but these were very amusing and makes you really think about what the old tale missed and got wrong)  and he got into this really long discussion about feminism and the symbols in the story, which really got me interested in feminism in the first place.

yes-you-am's forest papercut really set this REmix in motion.

Public domain resource:
Full Moon as seen from Apollo 11
ftp://nssdcftp.gsfc.nasa.gov/miscellaneous/planetary/apollo/as11_44_6667.jpg

Our new "Little Red Riding Hood" paper cutout book is almost ready to be published! I would like to include a section in the book that explicitly speaks to the feminsit thoughts and themes revolving around this fairy tale.  

WRITERS: Write a brief statement (1-2 sentences, or a short paragraph) regarding the feminist themes found in LRRH. This statement can refer to either the original Brothers Grimm story or my adapted screnplay. JulesKD and hopiamanipopcorn both have RECords resourced below that are excellent examples of what I'm looking for.

You can focus your writing on how LRRH relates to the following:

* Being a girl

* Feminism

* Female sexuality

* Straying from "the path"

* Male-dominated society

VISUAL ARTISTS: Find a piece of writing regarding LRRH and visually interpret it with an illustration, a photo, or a combination of images. 

I'm really stoked to see this book come together! We'll be sending it off to Iceland very soon to be published.

Thanks again!

<3

J

Our new "Little Red Riding Hood" paper cutout book is almost ready to be published! I would like to include a section in the book that explicitly speaks to the feminsit thoughts and themes revolving around this fairy tale. 

WRITERS: Write a brief statement (1-2 sentences, or a short paragraph) regarding the feminist themes found in LRRH. This statement can refer to either the original Brothers Grimm story or my adapted screnplay. JulesKD and hopiamanipopcorn both have RECords resourced below that are excellent examples of what I'm looking for.

You can focus your writing on how LRRH relates to the following:

* Being a girl

* Feminism

* Female sexuality

* Straying from "the path"

* Male-dominated society

VISUAL ARTISTS: Find a piece of writing regarding LRRH and visually interpret it with an illustration, a photo, or a combination of images. 

I'm really stoked to see this book come together! We'll be sending it off to Iceland very soon to be published.

Thanks again!

<3

J

So I had this idea for combining "turn over the leaves 2" by Kimshuttle & "Skip and the turtle" by MadisenMusic. I loved the thought of the man reading a children's story. It could be his own child's story, or perhaps he just needed the kind of cheering up that only kid's books can do. Anyway, I'm not the best illustrator in the world, so I doodled some stick figures instead, as I wanted to put this together with a few images to show what it might look like & I thought I'd upload it to the site in case anyone would like to take the idea further.

I imagine:

• The man's eyes going from left to right, as if he's reading.


• The illustrations in the book being childlike (wobbly lines, colouring out of the lines etc.)


• Some of the illustrations moving, such as the bump on Bobby's head growing as he talks, or seeing the rocks actually skimming the water.


• I also wanted to animate the man's arm extending to put the book away at the end.

Anyway, I'm not in a position to spend much time making this right now, but I'm really keen to see it in a finished state & I thought someone here might like the idea & might play around with the two RECords together.

A story from the wonderful and astounding mind of my five year old sister, Aoife. As told by her. 

the universe isn't made of atoms
it's made of tiny ponies 

Song I had knocking about in my head for a while. Just recorded. ABout hmmm. today ;-)

Ok, this version is copyright violation free. I hope everybody understands that I did not remix with an image that is a violation on purpose and as soon as it was brought to my attention I began to address it. I really love annejumps illustration of Red that I used in my previous remix, but I went a different way for this so that the wolf and Red went together. I couldnt find a wolf to go with Anne's Red.

give me all the flickering lights!

tiny specs of fluttering rays

and city glitters shimmering

but only from far away.

i want them all it's an addiction

i want the christmas lights buried in snow

and the blips in science fiction

films from years ago. 

give me all the night sky's twinkling sprinkles

and the red pulsing eyes

on tvs that standby

fading, flirting in and out

like a game of cat and mouse.

bits of foil in the distance

blowing kisses from the sun to me and

showing no resistance to the photons

that consistently pass notes on

from one lover to the other

like cupids tiny brothers.

give me all the flickering lights.

light every candle and wave every phone

glinting and bleeping and

imprintining glowing circuses

that linger while I'm sleeping.

an orchestra of weeping light

swan singing like star crossed choirs

who play themselves to me

all night.

A drawing I've made for work, the previous colors were purple, green, pink & yellow. I like to play with that red & blue so I hitRECorded the colors...

Heavily influenced by Mucha :) 
(actually it's pretty much the same picture, but I added some more flowers) 

Hi everyone! With this illustration, I was hoping that the camera can start at the bottom image and tilt up as the narration continued:

"The young daughter smiled at her mother's request...

She'd loved walking through the wood to her grandmother's house and always found the most beautiful flowers to pick along the way."

I imagined her thinking of how she would walk through the forest when she was younger, hence the slight age difference in the illustration. Thanks for viewing and I hope you like it!

2012. This is a painting I made on New Years day for a friend. The concept behind this piece is to represent the way a wolf's howl would look in the night, but rather than the cold air colors and flowers flow out of the wolf's mouth in a similar pattern.

sorry, really crappy rec but just wanted to get it out.

I take a ride in the rain tonight,

take a breath and I hold her memory tight

let another day go by without her by my side and i'll feel fine

if i get me cherry coke, 20 packs of tic tacs green and orange

listening to every single cd that i own

tonight i'm driving all night long i hope it last forever

it's all i ever wanna do, to do

tonight i'm gonna take a trip around the world to nowhere

I hope somehow i find the moon

i hope somehow i find the moon

there's no one else on the road but me

i don't know why but somehow i feel so free

i never know the reasons why i do the things i do, the things i do

i stop and think of you and i, try my hardest no to start to cry

everything around me here says so much of you

tonight i'm driving all night long i hope it last forever

it's all i ever wanna do, to do

tonight i'm gonna take a trip around the world to nowhere

I hope somehow i find the moon

i hope somehow i find the moon