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If a Valentine’s Day fight or a demanding boss has left you flooded with absurd requests, consider writing them down on a Post-it. Maybe one day, a filmmaker will gather these absurdities up and animate them into a beautiful collage.
That’s just what short film director Laurie Hill did with a selection of utterly impossible requests received by Getty-Hulton archivist Matthew Butson. At the top of the list; a photograph of Jesus, an “action shot” of dodos (which died out in the mid-1700s), a portrait of Jack the Ripper and a group shot of Neil Armstrong with the 11 (!?) other astronauts who a requester thought had joined him on the first moon landing.