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Mayonnaise Madonna

The afternoon light is perfect on the platform of a Colombo railway station. A woman in a white dress moves elegantly through the crowd towards the first class carriage. She looks vaguely familiar until I suddenly realise: it’s Madonna. “This could be a nice little earner”, I think to myself, and approach her. She smiles and doesn’t seem to mind. I have no proper camera with me, so I improvise and use a tube of mayonnaise. Walking backwards in front of the Material Girl, paparazzo style, I carefully aim the tube and squeeze it to produce a series of exclusive images. It’s tricky; I have to catch the exposed squirts of mayonnaise and carefully keep them for post processing and transmission to my agency. Then Madonna turns ugly and starts screaming at me not to stain her dress. I try to move away, but am held back by beggars who pull me to the ground.
Then I wake up and remember that I haven’t charged the battery in the compact I always carry..

by Morten Hvaal at Thu Aug 09 03:44:02 UTC 2007 (ed. Sep 10 2008) Colombo, Sri Lanka | Bookmark this | Digg this |

:))
could you please be more technical about the kind of substance you use in order to have this sort of things happen? share it with LS community, Morten.

by Dana De Luca | 09 Aug 2007 07:08 | Rome, Italy |
I find the Mayonnaise Filter gets those stains out just fine. Always carry a tube. Right next to the crackers and cheese, which goes very well with the leftover mayonnaise when I get peckish.

by BignoseTW | 09 Aug 2007 07:08 | Taipei, Taiwan |
Dana,
I hardly ever remember dreams (my shrink says in my case that’s a good thing..) but when I do it tends to be chemically induced. Boringly, in this case it was most likely a dodgy lukewarm lunch at a five-star Colombo hotel that caused not only my imagination to run wild..
Adding insult to injury I can’t stand Madonna.
And I still haven’t charged that battery..

by Morten Hvaal | 09 Aug 2007 08:08 | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
hhmmm…what did you have to eat/drink/smoke last night…is this some fantasy of sorts?? ;) that made me laugh your dream…

They say that if you dream of food it means some sort of physical or emotional nourishment and energy.

To dream of celebrities: “represents your beliefs and understanding about him or her. Something in you waking life has triggered these similar beliefs and feelings. It is not uncommon that your obsession with a certain celebrity may carry over onto your dream world. Celebrities are often seen as heroes and all that is mighty. Also consider any puns within the name.”

I got it from the web, not my jargon. :)

by Haris Coussidis | 09 Aug 2007 09:08 | Kampala, Uganda |
Mayonnaise

To see or eat mayonnaise in your dream, represents disappointment in your waking life. It also indicates the occurrence of insults and disrespect in some situation or relationship.

From a dream dictionary

by Jethro Soudant | 09 Aug 2007 11:08 | Buffalo, NY, United States |
I’ll take Monica over Madonna any day. But I am somewhat concerned at the obvious Freudian aspects of squirting mayonnaise at celebrities.. Perhaps I need to change my subject matter and see if I’m really a closet paparazzo..

by Morten Hvaal | 09 Aug 2007 12:08 | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Here Morten maybe this guy influenced you and Sony are about to offer you a contract for inventing a new type of “ART

He does a killer kebab that would go nicely with your mayonaise

http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/emi-signs-record-deal-with-kebab-seller/2007/08/09/1186530499221.html

by lisa hogben | 09 Aug 2007 12:08 (ed. Aug 9 2007) | Sydney, Australia |
hmm very interesting topic lol

by Stefanos Kouratzis | 09 Aug 2007 13:08 | Nicosia, Cyprus |
:)

Bad Dream

by Haris Coussidis | 09 Aug 2007 13:08 | Kampala, Uganda |
On the entertainment vs politics, I’d be willing to bet that there are more males dreaming of squirting mayo, or whatever… on Madonna than say, Margaret Thatcher or Madeleine Albright…
As long as it is Madonna you dreamt about, I bet Dr. Ruth would say you are quite healthy, and that it is a positive sign that you are a 40 something going on 14!

by Olivier Boulot | 09 Aug 2007 13:08 | Paris, France |
I assume it’s too late to claim that this is all about the fear of being caught without a camera?..

by Morten Hvaal | 09 Aug 2007 13:08 | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
You know, I thought this was going to be a religious thread about someone seeing the image of the Holy Mother in a jar of mayonnaise. She appears in a lot of foodstuffs these days, it seems like; a couple of years ago she appeared in a grilled cheese sandwich and the time before that she was in a watermelon somewhere in Spain, if I remember this correctly. As for the apparition with the more profane Madonna of Michigan, clearly you’ve been suppressing a desire to Vogue like a virgin without your papa preaching at you and this has manifested itself in your dream life. Or maybe you just like mayonnaise. There are stranger things in life, you know.

by Akaky | 09 Aug 2007 14:08 | New York, United States |
“I just saw Madonna!”
“Umm, do you mean THE Madonna, or do you mean the Mother of Jesus?”

by BignoseTW | 09 Aug 2007 14:08 | Taipei, Taiwan |
Gayle, the way you just went from suicide bombing to performance anxiety was very impressive indeed. Now, as we all know, meat without mustard is unthinkable, whereas mayonnaise is an altogether more dubious substance.. Especially the cheap variety that comes in tubes..

by Morten Hvaal | 09 Aug 2007 14:08 | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Is this the right thread for the internet porn discussion?

by lisa hogben | 09 Aug 2007 14:08 | Sydney, Australia |
Lisa, this is a serious discussion about always being prepared. For anything..

by Morten Hvaal | 09 Aug 2007 14:08 | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
I’m going to have to recommend that fabulous book “I dream of Madonna” by Kay Turner as compulsory reading. It’s nearly as thought provoking as it is odd.
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/28148243

by Con O'Donoghue | 09 Aug 2007 15:08 | Barcelona, Spain |
Sorry, sorry I was just a little confused!

Now I completely understand, what we are all talking about is Ministers in the British cabinet having problems trading their mustard supplies with MI5. This is a quite worrying phenomenon and requires the ’Madonna’s’ help to sort it out.

The resultant feminist backlash has been documented by Kay Turner in her riveting book and has been immortalised by that genius talent L’il Maaz in his famous song ‘Eat more Kebab’

Morten seems to have inadvertently and synchronistically interpreted all of this in a completely interpretative dream and Gayle is lending a hand at extrapolating all of Mortens underlying issues with becoming an antennae for a possible MI5 mustard revolutionary cell into a far more explosive situation!

Am I close or should I just admit to being related to Lancelot Hogben the famous mathematician and philosopher, for no reason what-so-ever?

by lisa hogben | 09 Aug 2007 16:08 | Sydney, Australia |
I should have spotted that those beggars were in fact MI6 operatives who mistakenly thought I was armed with WMD mustard rather than mere mayonnaise..

by Morten Hvaal | 10 Aug 2007 02:08 | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
It really takes a bunch o’ perverted photogs to take that perfectly good thread to slippery mayo slopes!
What happened to good old whip cream?

by Olivier Boulot | 10 Aug 2007 02:08 | Paris, France |
naah… whipped cream is SOO bourgeois – and besides the canned variety sure to be bad for the ozone.

by BignoseTW | 10 Aug 2007 06:08 | Taipei, Taiwan |
It’s what you feel like at the moment, sweet or savoury….Creamy or oily?? And it’s got to be full fat, otherwise what is the point? It’s too early in the morning for this…back to work back to work…

by Haris Coussidis | 10 Aug 2007 06:08 | Kampala, Uganda |
Ahh! Haris Full fat Is my favourite food…..

And its too late at night for this, I also must be back to work…

(Hmmmm, whipped cream, slippery mayo and mustard for the spice of life, what more do a bunch of snappers need?)

by lisa hogben | 10 Aug 2007 13:08 | Sydney, Australia |
It occurs to me that no one has asked if this spewing condiment was low fat mayonnaise. Low fat mayonnaise is an abomination, along with putting any sort of mayonnaise on a French fry; people willing to place mayonnaise on a French fry are capable of almost any iniquity one can think of, including selling life insurance or sporting supportive Red Sox in New York. When anyone looks at the nutritional information on the side of any jar of mayonnaise, the value next to Calories From Fat should read Yes. That is real mayonnaise; anything else should be shunned, ostracized, and kept away from decent people altogether and maybe even photographers as well. The best way to do this is to buy Hellman’s, the gold standard of mayonnaise.

by Akaky | 10 Aug 2007 14:08 | New York, United States |
Well at least it was mayonnaise and it wasn’t a huge tube of glycerine that is used to lubricate various parts of the body ! Imagine that ! knowing Miss Madge she probably would have taken Much offense, Mr. Hvaal, if you threw that at her and that would have probably been the End of your Pipearazzi dreams… ;- ) I like someone’s research of what mayo could rep: to see or eat mayonnaise in your dream, represents disappointment in your waking life. It also indicates the occurrence of insults and disrespect in some situation or relationship .. Hmmm..not a bad premonition in a dream… Hope the tube of mayo was large enough for you !! Certainly teeney lunch sized packets would not have cut the mustard for you ? Finally, I would have m u c h prefered Madge over Ms. Lewinsky – I tend not to trust women who prefer plain beige hosiery over fish nets. : – ))

by betsy kawamura | 11 Sep 2007 23:09 (ed. Sep 13 2007) | Oslo, Norway |
….N o t

by betsy kawamura | 11 Sep 2007 23:09 | Oslo, Norway |
this thread is not about Britney Spears being fat???

by Antonio Olmos | 12 Sep 2007 00:09 | London, United Kingdom |
If you have pictures of Madonna covered in mayo stop f**king around and call the London tabloids!

by James Colburn | 12 Sep 2007 02:09 | Omaha, Nebraska, United States |
..Well M, Good to know that you are around and still bouncing and don’t be such a stranger to all of us here ! p here says hello to you and so do a few others… hope you are taking care of your daughter V in SL and things are not so much of a hastle in a castle there !! trying to work w some trafficking-gender issues in Romania…chum did an exhibit here at the new Holocaust center about Roma Sinti situation… not exactly the most uplifting subject but portraiture of the women were beautiful… Would be great to hear from you ! stop being a stranger! xox

by betsy kawamura | 12 Sep 2007 20:09 | Oslo, Norway |
! :))))))))))))))))…

that’s a brilliant dream Morten! :))))))…funny, never gonna look the same at mayonnaise again ;)))))

cheers,
b

by Bob Black | 13 Sep 2007 03:09 | Toronto (for now), Canada |
Mayonnaise makes wonderful prints.

by Francis van Boxtel | 13 Sep 2007 10:09 | netherlands, Netherlands |
..And as someone pointed out, Madonna could be a metaphor for Mary Magdelene! have been looking quite a bit at historical origins of MM both from ‘official’ Vatican perspectives versus those of more radical nature such as researchers working toward Da Vinci Code flavour. Of course the DVC was pretty much fictionalized, but if one looks at some of the history and data regarding churches around in parts of France and the background of the founders it is quite interesting to see what unfolds. A pretty interesting documentary done by BBC some years ago pretty much explains quite a few things….

…In any case, I think it is pretty interesting that the Vatican church had such problems with the person of MM and apparently one of the popes had decided that it would be ‘convenient’ to put together the stories of Mary of Bethany together with Mary Magdalene to ‘show’ that the Church based on Vatican concepts of Christianity was open and ‘forgiving’ to those who had ‘even’ experienced prostitution. This was seen as a way to undermine the power and significance of women in the Church then, and it seems that Mary Magdalene had signifcant presence in the minds and hearts of the public, which could have been seen as a threat to the predominantly patriarchal wishes of the Vatican…hmmm…

Apparently, at the end of the 6th century, Pope Gregory the Great gave a sermon in which he characterized Mary Magdalene as a harlot. He aligned her with the “sinful woman” in Luke, with Mary of Bethany in John, and with the Mary from whom seven devils were ejected to produce this Mary, the prostitute.
(…and I suppose that this makes the person of Jesus Christ more ‘noble’ in hanging out and loving her? ..) The Vatican eventually ‘reversed’ this bad PR image of MM some time ago, thankfully as they said that they could not prove that MM had tragically been a prostituted woman. My feminist scholar chums and I think that this is was a bit partriarchal on the part of the Vatican Church…but no one’s perfect, eh ?? : – ) Interesting reading on PBS featuring scholars from Harvard and other uni’s. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week712/feature.html

by betsy kawamura | 13 Sep 2007 11:09 (ed. Sep 13 2007) | Oslo, Norway |
This new bill in the US would put a wrench in you ever selling that Madonna photo, or any other image of a “celebrity” or “politician”. It sounds like they will have the right to approve any image of themselves. That includes any press photo of a politician doing any wrong doing or Susan Saradon or Sean Penn protesting something or other.

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by bobby durston | 15 Sep 2007 17:09 | Hermosa Beach, CA, United States |
But all the “news” images would be censored by them.

by bobby durston | 15 Sep 2007 18:09 | Hermosa Beach, CA, United States |
…prob should make a new posting or something but noticed that some of the hurdles against making more strident support of programs against gender based violence involves the wish for invisibility and anonymity by the survivors in marked contrast to suvivors of other war traumas such as landmine survivors. this could make the subject more difficult for media and journalists to cover…most survivors-victims of sexual abuse do not want to be photographed as it brings in additional humiliation and dilemmas that persecute severely the survivors and their communities in ways that physical injuries may not. There is also marked difference in the nature of criminology and victimology behind sexual violence vis a vis those of other survivors such as landmine victims. In worst cases, ‘coming out’ for members of gender based violence means persecution by Honour based crimes in some Muslim communities.

Many research agencies concur about the role of visual aid in communicating urgency of trauma victims and survivors. This is not to say that one group of survivors suffer more or less than others, but I believe that it is important to think about the contrasts and similarities in stigmatization and visilibity issues that could affect the quantity and quality of effective and visible media campaigns that could work for these groups and could affect the quality of rehabilitation and reintegration programs …if anyone has any comments-ideas would be really cool to know of them… cheers..

by betsy kawamura | 26 Sep 2007 16:09 (ed. Sep 26 2007) | Oslo, Norway |
Well… at least the mayo tube was not empty !!!
Thanks for the laugh ! ;-)

by Olivia Bonnal Sansoni | 09 Sep 2008 10:09 | Uzes, France |
OMG!! I JUST SAW MADONNA!”
"Do you mean THE Madonna, or do you mean the Mother of Christ? …

by BignoseTW | 10 Sep 2008 11:09 | Taipei, Taiwan |

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Morten Hvaal, Photographer Morten Hvaal
Photographer
Colombo , Sri Lanka (CMB)
Dana De Luca, Photographer Dana De Luca
Photographer
Milan , Italy
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Videographer/Photographer
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Taipei , Taiwan
Haris Coussidis, Photographer Haris Coussidis
Photographer
South America , Afghanistan
Jethro Soudant, Photographer Jethro Soudant
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Buffalo, NY , United States (BUF)
lisa hogben, photojournalist lisa hogben
photojournalist
Sydney , Australia
Stefanos Kouratzis, Photojournalist,Reporter Stefanos Kouratzis
Photojournalist,Reporter
Nicosia , Cyprus
Olivier Boulot, Photog Olivier Boulot
Photog
Paris , France
Akaky, Contemptible lout Akaky
Contemptible lout
New York , United States (AAA)
Con O'Donoghue, Photographer Con O'Donoghue
Photographer
Dublin , Ireland (BCN)
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London , United Kingdom (AAA)
Antonio Olmos, Photographer Antonio Olmos
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London , United Kingdom
James Colburn, Photo Editor James Colburn
Photo Editor
McAllen, Texas , United States
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Toronto , Canada
Francis van Boxtel, soundengineer/photographe Francis van Boxtel
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netherlands , Netherlands
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photographer
Magheralin , Northern Ireland
Olivia Bonnal Sansoni, Photographer Olivia Bonnal Sansoni
Photographer
Uzes , France


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