12-01-10 – The Song Remains the Same

I, personally, would appreciate song titles/albums at least. I was wondering about youtube links earlier today, myself. I doubt that they’d be widely clicked, but one of mine is just enough off the beaten path that our younger viewers aren’t likely to get it. It’s a beautiful picture, and I’m going to use it either way, but encouraging links is a question I had in my head.

By far, this contest proved to take more of my time in idea crafting than any other. Very challenging to figure out what might work, then to see what actually does (at least to me). I wish I had more resources to put into this one. But along the way, I created a couple economical directional lighting/shadow setups that will work nicely in other themes as I think they will in this one, so there’s a bonus for me. A most fun challenge, though. Just hope my commonish-selections aren’t done to death.

I certainly plan on adding the artists’ names and album/song title, and I don’t feel it’s necessary in my case to link further, but if pictures are to be reproductions of existing album artwork, I’d certainly like a link to see the original to better appreciate what the farktographer has done.

I did suggest this earlier, but perhaps someone who actually has the stuff available on hand could do it. http://www.lyrics.com/black-coffee-lyrics-ella-fitzgerald.html (lyrics)

Black Coffee – it’s an old jazz standard (another suggestion, actually, to look through those) that my vocal instructor kept trying to get me to sing. If I was setting it up, I’d have a cup of coffee and some cigarettes lying next to it, and possibly a woman drinking coffee looking out the window maybe with a cigarette in her hand or something along those lines. Only, we have no cigarettes or coffee in the house. I was going to do it at my parent’s this weekend, but they weren’t brewing any coffee and there was too much commotion and I forgot.

A couple of others I thought of needed alcohol (or at least alcohol bottles), not the 12-ouncers but fifths I think they’re called, but we’re not big drinkers and the only alcohol bottles we have are Parrot’s Bay rum (pineapple and coconut rum, actually) and they won’t fit the spirit of the songs (way too poor to even think about buying a big enough bottle of alcohol for this competition when we won’t even drink it afterward).

I plan on at least titling mine with the song titles, and if they want to look it up after that they can.

Some of my favorite songs are that of Classical Music.

Summon the Heroes, The Olympic Spirit, The 1812 Overture, Farandole.

The only one of these I even REMOTELY have a picture for is the 1812. I have gone to the DC 4th of the July concert for the past three years.

If you fellow farktographers were going to do these songs…any suggestions??

Summon / Heroes – Footballers coming out of the tunnel, National Guardsmen at homecoming with wives and children, The Iwo Jima statue at Arlington, Pickett’s Charge reenactors (or Grant’s defense at Pittsburgh Landing / Shiloh if you’re yankee), Or go with the “everyday heroes” like good parents or soup kitchen workers.

I’m going with make it obvious.

That’s more or less my plan. Song title and artist.

Also, Olavf, I hope your Jimmy Buffet song isn’t my Jimmy Buffet bong.

D’oh I just saw your facebook post. I was going to say probably not, but it appears we’re sharing the same bong. *puff* *puff* *pass*

it appears we’re sharing the same bong. *puff* *puff* *pass*

NOT a typo?
This should be interesting. Can’t wait for this contest to start.

Great…. One little typo sounded good for a while, got better with margaritas, and now apparently there’s an epic dong that can be shared on both coasts.

Far out.