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[Unreleased Media] The Paper Kingdom Wardrobe and Set Dressing

In 2012, famous band “My Chemical Romance“ started work on an album called The Paper Kingdom. The story of the album revolved around a group of parents who coped with the loss of their children by imagining they were in the woods fighting a witch. We now have access to a bunch of audio related media revolving around this era of the band but we don’t have any confirmed visual media.

The only reason we have any confirmation this media exists is due to this interview with Kevin Smith in 2012 for his show “Spoilers”

https://youtu.be/5U9YnIUt-Q4?si=iSntBVZGL9m7Xjmt

“This one is going to be really awesome, I’m actually going to meet Colleen soon about it”

In reference to Colleen Atwood, Hollywood costume designer. To fans she will be known for doing the wardrobe design for Black Parade and Danger Days.

In 2014 he also mentions that they were going to build stage sets as well on The Andy Greenwall Podcast

https://www.reddit.com/r/MyChemicalRomance/comments/1hixmou/gerard_talking_about_paper_kingdom/

On r/ThePaperKingdomMCR we have a handful of photos that were originally believed to be part of the album

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePaperKingdomMCR/s/maKHrKnUru

The big issue is that all of these photos mostly revolve around Gerard and Mikey. One of the photos was of the two of them going through woods holding lanterns. It was quickly discovered that the photo was for a charity event with Illuminate Parkinson’s. There’s two more photos of them separated. One of them is of Mikey wearing this black outfit and a couple of Gerard wearing a blue jacket. I’m going to focus on the ladder since it’s the most information I could find regarding context. All these photos were taken by Allan Amoto. Upon looking through his instagram I found that he posted a re-edit of the blue jacket photo where he mentioned that Grant Morrison was present for the photoshoot.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BuwrFn8BdXA/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

What makes this interesting is that we do know that Grant Morrison is one of the few people outside of the band who listened to TPK. In this same post he mentioned that the photo was for an Editorial called “Lost Boy Leather” by JunkerDesigns which seems to be lost media in itself. I did reach out to Allan trying to get more information regarding the post.

He did tell me that the editorial was published in 2012 but gave no additional information. I also asked him if the outfit or photos were related to the Paper Kingdom at all and his short response was, “don’t know..”.

At the moment this is where my search ends in terms of Wardrobe. The best we can hope for is probably concept art by either Gerard or Colleen Atwood. Another possible person to look into is Christine L. Cantella, frequent collaborator of Colleen often being an assistant costume designer.

As for Set Dressing I don’t have too much information on…

User u/na-zdrowie found a kick starter by Chris Anthony who did promo photography for Black Parade.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePaperKingdomMCR/s/zv8c6c46os

The Kick Starter was for an art book titled “Seas Without a Shore”. I won’t get into everything zdrowie mentioned here since they did an amazing job breaking it down on the post above but they did speculate that these might have been connected to the Paper Kingdom at some point due to the amount of pagan imagery and one photo of a man with a literal paper castle on his head. Yet again this is where our search ends. And in this case it’s a little harder to know where to dig since we don’t know who was set to visuals for this album. If you have any idea on who to ask or where to search for more information please leave a comment!

u/Other-Ad-1087 — 4 days ago

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Can Ron Swanson stop Cotton Hill from finding his gold?

The Hill family is out in Pawnee Indiana on business for Strickland Propane. While there, Cotton somehow finds Ron’s will and is off to find the gold.

All though Ron doesn’t think Cotton knows what his will means he’s not taking any chances

Round 1: Ron has to stop Cotton on his own

Round 2: Ron has the help of Hank while Cotton gets Topsy

Round 3: same as before but Ron also gets Bill and Cotton has Dale

Bonus: how long can Ron put up with all of them on the way back

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u/Other-Ad-1087 — 8 days ago

▲ 23 r/ThePaperKingdomMCR

Blue Jacket Photoshoot

About a month ago this sub was doing a deep dive into the possible costumes made or conceived for TPK. A handful of photos captured from a photographer named Alan Amoto were posted here all of which featuring Gerard and Mikey.

The one I want to focus on is the one with G in a blue jacket in what seems to be the ruins of a carnival/theme park. Upon digging for information regarding that photo I found that around March of 2019, Alan re-edited the photo and posted it on his instagram mentioning that Grant Morrison was present for the photoshoot. What’s interesting about that fact is that we know that Morrison was one of few people outside the band to hear the music while it was being developed

“It’s nothing like the band we know and love”.

I decided to reach out to Alan to see if he was willing to share any information on these photos.

Admittedly he didn’t say much but in the same post I mentioned before there was a mention that the photo was for an editorial by a high end fashion company named JunkerDesigns called “Lost Boy Leather”.

I couldn’t find the editorial myself so I asked if he had access to it still and his response was

“I do, as to the date, I think around 2012”
No further information provided

Not wanting to waste too much of his time I asked him if he knew if there was any connection between the photos and TPK

“No idea..”

I know it isn’t much but I thought I’d throw that information out there

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u/Other-Ad-1087 — 9 days ago