Elusive Story

25/11/2019

Individually Empress Josephine and Napoleon Bonaparte were complete unknowns in French society, somewhat barbaric, and personal wrecking balls in their own ways. And the chances of them ever meeting was so remotely small that it’s no surprise that supernatural intervention was credited, or blamed, for their eventual union.
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Empress Joséphine is most often known as the wife of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte–the irony being that neither of them were particularly French. Josephine was born and raised on Martiniq…

29/10/2019

Elusive Story | 2019 October.
Katrina Van Tassel | Spirit of Love.
An alt-herstory version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Robin Cisek | Dark-Pop Music.
Take a deep dive with us into the lyrics and music of Robin Sabiston-Cisek.
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Elusive Story is about turning Big Ideas into Human Scale Stories through provocative writing and avant garde photography. This month we’re discarding the idea that the Legend of Sleepy Hollow is m…

27/10/2019

Behind-the-scenes of our fashion shoot for the 2019 October edition of www.ElusiveStory.com

26/10/2019

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as told through the eyes of Katrina Van Tassel, the love interest of Ichabod Crane. In popular culture, Washington Irving’s story has been diluted into a simple Halloween ghost story revolving around the Headless Horseman. But within his book, Irving makes numerous references to the life and written works of Cotton Mather and his religious beliefs during the time of the Salem Witch trials through Crane. Here, Katrina tells her story through three eras including her experience with the ramifications of Mather’s teaching as well as the fundamental tenants of English Social Liberalism developed by Thomas Hill Green who in turn was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
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Story and photography | Tom Libertiny
Model | Jenna Ode-Model
Costume Design | Andrew Jerome Martina
Key HMUA | Charlee Musselman
Assistant HMUA | Tracy Noe
Manicurist | Tiffany E. Smith
Master Gardner | Garden Moxie
Prop Masters | Tom Libertiny and Anna Libertiny

“Help! Help! I can’t breathe!” Ludwig raced to my side. “You’re going to be fine.” As I awoke my eyes searched Ludwig’s eyes. “It …

25/10/2019

Anachronous. In this age when there’s the need for one-word descriptions for everything and everyone, Robin Cisek Music is most definitely anachronous in the sense that she’s moving through time at a rate that’s different from most people. You get the sense when talking with her that she periodically touches down in our time and at other times she’s--elsewhere.
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Story | Tom Libertiny
Photography | Deb Sabiston

Anachronous. In this age when there’s the need for one-word descriptions for everything and everyone, Robin Cisek is most definitely anachronous in the sense that she’s moving through t…

18/10/2019

Pre-order | October Discount
This month we're traveling with Katrina Van Tassel from the Legend of Sleepy Hollow--Washington Irving's story was much more than just a ghost story.
We also went down the rabbit hole during our interview with singer | songwriter, Robin Cisek Music.
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Katrina Van Tassel | Spirit of Love The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as told through the eyes of Katrina Van Tassel, the love interest of Ichabod Crane. In popular culture, Washington Irving’s story h…

29/09/2019

In Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Katrina Van Tassel is the 18-year-old women who is the subject of Ichabod Crane’s and Abraham Van Brunt’s affections.

And that’s pretty much it.

But what if...

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In Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Katrina Van Tassel is the 18-year-old women is the subject of Ichabod Crane’s and Abraham Van Brunt’s affections. And that’s …

27/04/2019

Behind-the-scenes of our fashion shoot for the 2019 April edition of www.ElusiveStory.com

25/04/2019

Elusive Story
Alt HerStory | Madame Curie

Madame Curie was shafted. Not once, but many times. Why? Because she was a female scientist in an era when only men had the capacity to do science. Discover a couple of new atoms—get ignored by the…

25/04/2019

The concept that a person’s legacy is to be judged within the context of the era during which they lived is nonsense.

Alt HerStory | Madame Curie

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Story and photography | Tom Libertiny
Madame Curie models |
Historical | Nadia Chaudoir
Future | Mallory Chaudoir
Scenic Design | Brian Dambacher
Costume Design | Matthew Richmond
Key HMUA | Charlee Musselman
Assistant HMUA | Lexi Barrow and Carla Vitale

Madame Curie was shafted. Not once, but many times. Why? Because she was a female scientist in an era when only men had the capacity to do science. Discover a couple of new atoms—get ignored by the…

21/04/2019

Remember hearing about the fire in California called “the Camp Fire” in 2018?
"Kindling" is about how it feels to live through a major California fire.

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Dust on my keyboard as I sit down to reach for a poem.   This town has changed since that Thursday. Charred fields and brick-heavy hearts   I watched the smoke r…