After Mark’s very eloquent (and I suspect very pissed - the more red wine he drinks, the more Catholic he gets…) effort on the solipsistic film meme, I don’t quite know how to follow up. But Zoe has kindly tagged me. I’m actually quite a private person, and I also don’t want to see the movie of my really weird and very exciting life made, but I do think - because I’m keenly aware of the issue of representation as a woman - I’d like to be played by an amputee like me. That doesn’t give me too many options. There’s one, though, and she’s gorgeous, though blonde (I’m a brunette) and missing both legs below the knee (I’m missing my right leg above the knee - hence my predilection for leaning left) - and she’s a genuine movie star in the most obscure auteurial tradition of American arthouse - the Cremaster cycle. Ladies and gentleman, I give you, starring as Kim - Aimee Mullins. I’m sure she’ll do me proud. By the way, my will prevents biographies, but I’m asking Mark to write the authorised novelisation of my so-called life. He’s too old to win the Vogel. Anyone know of a literary award for authors under 40 so he can get a move on with this exciting contribution to the future Canon�…
Ps: Almost forgot. I’m tagging Liam, Andrew Bartlett, Miss Piss, Rafe Champion and of course, Redrag Rob.
Photo credit ©Ali Smith.
Thanks, Kim, yes I need extrinsic as well as intrinsic motivation as we say in the corporate sector.
Do I have to write the novel first before the film is made?
Aimee is a hottie, and I’m sure will do you proud, but some of us have already seen Kim the .mpeg and nothing compares 2 u!
Hehe. Actually, Mark, I don’t think Kim the .mpeg has had that wide a distribution!
Not bad for a blonde.
She doesn’t do you justice, Kim!
Not bad? I need a cold shower.
Kim’s better!
maybe it’s best the .mpeg only made it as far as it did then.
Think Juliette Binoche but more the hotness, dk.au! Kim is the hotness. Just saying…
Far too much intellectualism going on with this meme.
Not sure “intellectualism” is the right word for it, GP.
hotness! not to mention extreme toughness!
True, Fyodor.
Those are some wicked looking prosthetics BTW.
Those prosthetics are designed for running or jumping or somesuch, are they not? They look expensive!
If you google Ms Mullins, you’ll find that she used to be a Paralympic runner.
I hope she takes them off at some point in bed!
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Can I just state categorically here Kim, et al, that any images of a legless observa from a past era, floating about the internet, are a shameless example of the digital fraudster’s art.
Orgonomane Observa strikes again! Turn up the dial, O. I think it goes to 11.
Er, observa, you seem to be under the impression both here and at Tim D’s that’s a photo of Kim. It’s not, as would be clear if you read the post.
No I wasn’t under that impression Mark, although I was beginning to wonder with Kim’s reaction. Hence my tongue in cheek comment about a ‘legless’ apparition of her. Legless has a double meaning of course, although physically I have both of mine. My mate’s old man(deceased) had both leg’s missing below the knee and I played hockey with a one legged team-mate. His shin pads lasted twice as long as ours naturally. I lost a finger at 15 and it has come in handy as a party trick. My mates would sometimes bet some dills at the pub a round of beers that their mate could stick his finger right up his nose. They were had. When the kids were young I used to tell them that if they picked their nose and sneezed, they’d end up like dad. Worked for a while. Generally amputees are pretty relaxed about their missing bits, unlike complete outsiders, who tip toe around the subject a bit until they get to know you.
Thanks, observa, your comments were a tad ambiguous, I guess.
No probs, observa, I guess it was a pretty heated thread so I didn’t pick up that your comments were in jest.
Spot on.
Yeah Mark, you gotta watch the observa for the double entendre, the tongue in cheek and the downright mischevious among the serious.
Sometimes hard to read/distinguish humour on a computer screen, observa!
Pong.
(It’s like a ping, except retro gamer cool.)
Hello-
Since I can’t find a way to contact the person who wrote this piece directly, I have to leave a comment.
I guess I have to be one of the many photographers out there to educate people about using photographs without permission and how it is both immoral and illegal.
My photo of Aimee Mullins has been used to illustrate your entry. It must have been taken from another place on the web, and yet no photo credit was given and no attempt to contact “the artist” was made.
This kind of thing is a scary and very unfair aspect of the web.
Please add a photo credit to this photo of Aimee Mullins asap reading ©Ali Smith.
Please know that every picture on the web has been taken by someone and that that someone has poured their time, energy, money and soul into making it. That needs to be respected.
thank you-
Ali Smith
Apologies! Done as requested.