"Helter Skelter"
Patrick Lentz
For the Utata group Iron Photographer 36 challenge. Image must have the following three elements...
1. the color white
2. a writing instrument
3. the title from a Beatles' song
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I have always been horrified and fascinated with the Manson murders. This image looks rather simple, but I wanted to go as authentic as possible in creating this image (other than using real blood). I looked up the original crime scene photos from this particular murder and tried to get the handwriting relatively authentic and the mispelling. The Manson family member who originally wrote this was Patricia Krenwinkle. In the book "Helter Skelter" Krenwinkle was described as having very hairy arms. I wanted to use a color photo for this project, which actually looked really good in that it had that 60s vintage bad color look, but I ultimately chose a bw image for the final one because the image would have been seen in bw by the public in the newspapers, and I like that Hitchcock look of blood in BW. It's not as gruesome but yet it is...if that makes sense.
The Iron Photographer Challenge
For Iron Photographer 36, we will have something that could be said to be Revolver-related:
1 - the color white
2 - a writing instrument
3 - title from a Beatles song
The first element, the color white, is a tad misleading. White is actually achromatic and not a color at all. But you know what we mean. White. Any shade of white. White must be a major component of the image, but we don't care what sort of component. Background, an object, a decoration, a scratched surface...up to you.
The second element, a writing instrument, should be fairly self-explanatory. It's an instrument used to create writing. A pen, a pencil, a typewriter...you get the idea. A hammer and chisel would work if you're dealing with gravestones, although that would probably be two instruments.
Finally, we want the title of the photograph to be a Beatles song title. We don't care what title, or what album, or what bootleg tape, or whether it was written by Lennon/McCartney or George Harrison or Ringo, or whether it was written by somebody else and just recorded by the Beatles. A Beatles song title. If you need help with this (and lawdy, who wouldn't?) be glad we live in the era of Wikipedia, which has a handy Beatles discography.
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