I always liked the Pogues as James Joyce.
Go to kings dominion, ride the flume, buy the photo
Put on wet suits and walk through an ash covered lake like the first photo here.
This is my favorite recent band photo/album cover. But that's only five dudes. For six dudes you have to go this route.
Take individual headshots of each member. Find a brick wall and loose bricks (or, for contrast, cinderblocks). Stack your building materials in front of the brick wall to roughly the height of a person, then tape the headshots to the stacks at roughly head height. Take photo.
(Or, just tape the headshots directly to the brick wall.)
Get a whole hell of a lot of elpees, and use them to create a mosaic which depicts the members of the band.
(1) Reenact Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald.
(2) Do the ascent of man, from drummer through guitarist to vocalist standing in front of a mic. Might have kind of a wide aspect ratio, though.
Just take a single composite photograph, like the author photo used for the wizard book.
7: I wish my Net Nanny had filtered that. Yeesh.
7: I was thinking along similar lines. Everyone stands naked holding a framed picture of his head in front of his wabblies - take a picture, crop at knees and neck.
Everyone stands naked holding a framed picture of his head in front of his wabblies - take a picture, crop at knees and neck.
Noch besser—everyone stands naked holding a picture of his wabblies in front of his head. Take a picture from the waist up.
If the album is full of love songs, you could call it "I Need One" and have the title on a sign and the band as scalpers standing outside of a game.
I saw pictures from a photo shoot (I think it was a party at a photographer's house) where someone had made a false wall with a bunch of picture frames on it, but the spaces behind the frames were holes. So you could stand behind the wall posing in the frames in various witty and entertaining ways. It was kind of cheesy but also fun.
Everyone stands naked from the waist down. Take the picture from the waist up. See if anyone notices the subtle traces of discomfort.
Take the picture with the camera upside down, but then show the picture upside down.
Trying to think of groups of five people -- basketball uniforms? On a court? For added weirdness, 1970s era basketball uniforms with the tiny shorts? A sixth band member can be dressed as a ref.
Halsman 'jumping' style? Like Dali Atomicus but with no cats.
Fruit-of-the-Loom giant fruit costumes?
All five of you crowd into a bathroom stall and someone takes a picture of your feet under the door?
That one was just sitting there, but I wasn't going to make it.
Druid outfits, then hold hands borromean rings-style.
Go to Home Depot's plumbing section and sit on the display toilets.
27: Chair held up by the leg going out of the frame, Dali jumped, someone threw the cats and buckets of water, and they caught the photo at just the right moment. I believe, anyway -- I think I recall reading something about the taking of the picture ages ago.
The curve of the water right below the chair looks unreal.
The photograph was made in the New York Studio of Philippe Halsman in 1948. The photograph was taken with Halsman's 4 x 5 format twin lens reflex camera. In order to make the photograph, the easel, two Dali paintings, and the step stool were suspended from the ceiling by strings. So these items were easy, since they were really held in the air by string. Halsman's wife held the chair in the air. Note that one leg of the chair is not in the picture. His wife is holding the leg of the chair that is out of the picture. So, all of these items while appearing to be part of the massive confusion and motion of the picture, are actually fixed in place.
The parts that are moving, and that required the precise timing are the cats, water and Dali himself. Yes, the cats are in fact flying through the air as they appear to be in the picture. The timing sequence was pretty simple. Halsman began to count, and on three his assistants threw the cats, and the water, and then on four Dali jumped in the air, and then Halsman would take the picture. Of course to get the perfect picture took not only careful timing but good luck as well. After taking a picture, Halsman would immediately go to the dark room and develop it. He would then come back and try again. It took a number of tries to get the perfect timing and perfect picture. Halsman wrote that it took six hours and twenty-eight throws to get the picture that we now know as Dali's atomicus. Halsman indicated that the cats were not harmed in the making of the photograph.
I bet those cats were getting upset by about take 25.
Yeah, I can imagine jumping and throwing doing most of that, but, like Moby says, that recurve in the water is hard to understand. I'd like to see a picture taken a second later. Bad day for the cats, I guess.
I suppose Dali's cats had it better than his clocks.
They tried the day before with desert tortoise. That was the worst day ever.
32: I think you could get a variety of shapes depending on how you moved the bucket during the throw.
They were going to use the artist's pet camelid, but the Dalí llama wasn't in a silly mood.
37: I'm sure you can, but it is still impressive.
Further to #4, the Dimmu Borgir look would work particularly well if you were all holding the strings to red helium balloons.
39: It'd be really impressive if they'd sketched out the curve they wanted beforehand, but it seems likelier that they just took the best-looking picture of the 28 attempts.
I bet those cats were getting upset by about take 25.
I'm guessing they were not delighted after take 1.
Yeah, what 28 and 30 said. They did a lot of takes. The cats apparently got a lot of treats, and [according to what I've read] weren't _that_ furious. Halsman was really good at creating those kinds of genuinely surreal images 'in camera' with no trickery. There's the skull photo, too.
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQov-1PEbkrx11CdMgg7xHATNeQZtW6bWUeByWXDkLe7lqKyVs4
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The cats apparently got a lot of treats and all the water they could lick off their fur.
I'd still love to hear the story as told by the assistant who had to recapture the cats after each take.
You could have all the band members' eyes replaced by those of Steve Busc/emi. But I think that joke's already getting old.
You could probably get some ideas from here.
You could reënact a scene with Mannequins. Or you could take pictures and print them on cakes and then hold the cakes.
Or you could make several live-action photo versions of this.
Hmmm. Expand to 9 and do a Brady Bunch layout.
All suspended in midair, playing your instruments.
Do it creepy Ann Geddes style!
http://webspace.webring.com/people/vm/mgallian/geddesposterstore.html
Talking Heads had a few. Especially this one. And this.
Four words: La zattera della Medusa
Eight words: La zattera della Medusa con le ali d'acqua
That was me. And the translation is perhaps overly literal.
53.last: I saw the original Polaroids that album cover was shot from assembled and behind glass at this exhibit when it was at Duke a few months back. It's huge.
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I was able to go to the final day of the national BALLE conference today* and it was amazing. I was really impressed by the quality of the speakers and the intensity of intelligence and engagement of everybody I saw. It was much better than I expected
It was a long day, I'm going to crash now, but if that's any indication of the quality of the organization I would highly recommend them.
* my brother went to the entire conference, but this was the only day I was able to attend.
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Does number 6 now he is barely in or almost out? You could always pretend to eat number 6, that would be the right way to depict '5 or 6' people in the band. Don't tell number 6, as it may become part of the legend that he never knew.
There are some useful ideas in this Patrick Wolf review.
Keep it real, Stanley. Have everybody be beating somebody to death with hammers.
Boring but, you can always go classic:
http://www.richardavedon.com/#s=11&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&p=1&a=0&at=0
Usually presented combined:
http://www.rock-explosion.com/images/allfour.jpg
Does number 6 [k]now he is barely in or almost out?
He's on keys plus filling in on a lot of guitar parts and shaker/tamb parts. I'd be ecstatic if he played with us full time, but I don't know if that's his plan. Or the other bandmates' plan. It's sort of a group with two main songwriters who assemble other musicians (including yours truly, as of late) for the purpose of playing live shows.
I have several suggestions, but first I want to applaud the Dismemberment Plan shoutout in the title.
You could do a version of this, but with you all instead of cats.
I want to applaud the Dismemberment Plan shoutout
And I applaud that you noticed. I was assuming *someone* would.
66=me correcting the link in 65.
This site offers many possible ideas, I think (some images NSFW). This severed head thing seems cheap and easy to do. If you all had long hair. And it was that sort of band.
I do really like this BJM band photo. The scene in Dig leading up to its creation, however, reminds me uncomfortably of Man Bites Dog.
54: so make a picture of the two songwriters assemnling the others.
53: The last Talking Heads image on this page would seem a novel solution to the brick wall problem.
Incongruous formal. You'd probably want to turn around, though. Maybe something incorporating horses, or the horse farm, or horse manure, or all three.
Take a picture of a brick wall standing in front of the band.
Oops, it is probably against 21st century netiquette to still be caught writing LOL.
Halsman indicated that the cats were not harmed in the making of the photograph.
Being flung through the air and drenched with water 28 times on the trot seems to push the boundaries of "not harmed".
76: Quite. 25 would be OK, 30 clearly crosses the line, but 28? Pushes the boundary.
73: I was actually thinking of the Muppets behind a brick wall pose from Sesame Street.
78: You have exposed a gap in my Muppets knowlege.
I couldn't find a picture of it on Google images, but a standard 'two muppets conversing' sketch on Sesame Street had them looking over a wall so as to make life easy for the puppeteers. (muppeteers?)
Ooh, all behind a brick wall with a single Muppet is possibly do-able. I recently saw a well-done imitation Muppet for sale at Goodwill, and, despite my inclination to buy it, I couldn't come up with a reasonable excuse to do so. Back to Goodwill we go!
Ah yes, I know what you mean. Wasn't there a scene in Muppets Take Manhattan, where they set the timer on a camera and all pose on their Murphy bed?
Alas, the ersatz Muppet got sold. Just goes to show: if you see a Muppet for sale, you should buy it, even if you're not sure why.
I hope that you go with the strategy in 81, and that your album becomes a multi-platinum international hit, sold with that album art.
Take the pictures at a Wine Festival! With a baby monkey!
I had forgotten that this thread was here, and the sidebar has me humming the Dismemberment Plan song. So thanks, Stanley!
At this point it's started making me think of Richard Thompson ("Doing the Backstreet Slide"), but when it first came up, it made me think of a different song, which I have now forgotten. La!
I'm not saying it's anyone I know, but for the record: this happened.
Boo on the ones without a drummer. Yay on masks. Not that you're not all pretty.
Yesterday I went to breakfast at my local hip-retro-diner-with-frustrating-service and there was a small film shoot at one of the booths, where sat a probable rock band costumed as a clown, a French mime, a gorilla, and someone with a complicated loupe like the guy from City of Lost Children.
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