Bonjour Tout le Monde,
I've been working for some time now on a children's book for adults. It started out as some fun and has become a little more serious. I've got a couple of images I have shot already and I would like to keep going. The story arc is in place, but I need to fill out the details. The story starts with a girl in the Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière who has fallen asleep, but can never wake up, and 30m below her a cross between a dinosaur and a dog with the opposite problem, he can never fall asleep, but dreams all the time. I won't spoil the ending with you just yet, but it becomes quite tragically depressing, so these snippets might be a little fragmented. If you want to know the full story, then propose to come along and help me shoot one time and I'll let you know it. Until then... enjoy.
1. Long though to be extinct, this long necked Dachshund was found lurking below the streets of Paris in the abandoned quarries of Paris. i
2. Long though to be extinct, this long necked Dachshund was found lurking below the streets of Paris in the abandoned quarries, munching down on a delicious light flowers whilst humming Mairzy Doats softly to himself.
3. The Long Necked Dachshund dreams about going to the surface, or did he go there in a dream once before? If one doesn’t sleep, but dreams nevertheless, is it still a dream? Regardless he dreams about not dreaming and if people dream on the surface.
4. Did you ever hear music on the street and never know where it came from? Maybe the answer is under your feet. Maybe it was a Long Necked Dachshund playing double bass with the greats in a cave filled with candles and bottle caps.
5. “I am sure if only I could find the perfect bed” the Long Necked Dachshund thought “then I could finally shake this insomnia and fall asleep”. Lucidly he drifted though his landscape, searching forever more.
6. When the two Long Necked Dachshund’s met it was love at first sight, which is probably a good thing, as this might be the last two remaining of their species, long thought to be extent. The fled the party immediately and started their mating ritual with some canoodling.
7. After reading about shooting stars in a children's book; the Long Necked Dachshund ventures outside go stargazing. He was so excited his skin started sparking and he had to return underground. He never saw a shooting star; but he enjoyed his trip regardless.
8. “My eyelids spike me like the blades of a thousand saws, please, I implore that I be granted sleep once more” he would tell the Sandman, that is, if only he could find him. He was sure he must live in the quarries, but no matter how far he searched, he was no where to be seen.
9. He never did understand war. He had never met anyone else, so he couldn’t quite comprehend the concept. Within one’s own mind was a different battle though. He was at war with his sub-conscience, and he wasn’t winning.
10. Wandering through the galleries the Long Necked Dachshund felt completely numb. He couldn’t remember the last time he napped and the sleep deprivation had devoured his senses. Maybe, he thought, if he could cut himself he could snap out of this waking dream. He reasoned that if he bleed, he could once again feel.
