At the last minute it suddenly seemed foolish to ask my ridiculously good-looking best friend to take her clothes off in front of my boyfriend. I had to think up a different pose; something less attractive.
"It's a bit chilly for a nude shot," I said, in the hazy heat of a sunny afternoon in late May. "And anyway, we should do something less pretentious. I know! Why don't you pretend to be dead?"
"Dead? Dead is less pretentious?"
"Yes! Flop down on the grass there, go on, fling your arms out and roll your eyes back. Very good. Don't worry about looking bad. It's in the name of art, after all."
Even posing as a corpse there was still something quite alluring about her. But isn't that what Photoshop is for? Cue blue lips and bloodshot eyes. And that year-round tan? Forget about it.
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Is this a good time to say I always kind of liked Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks, all dead, blue-lipped and wrapped up in plastic?
ReplyDeleteYes, but "anonymous" is an option for a reason.
ReplyDeleteI can empathise, though. I had a crush on PJ Harvey when I saw the album cover of her in a body bag. I was 14 and tragic back then though.
Your blonk just keeps on throwing up reasons as to why being your boyfriend has to be the best 'job' in the world.
ReplyDelete... hang on, I've just realised this photo shoot was taking place only 15 miles from my house! If only I'd gone to Beaumaris for a walk yesterday.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, that tower in the background is obviously meant to represent a penis.
ReplyDeleteThats a really impressive pic. Very good considering you've only just recieved a proper camera.
ReplyDeleteI'm not quite sure why I like it, I just do.
"more, more"
LOL, you're crazy Annie.
ReplyDeleteLove the pic, though!
Great pic but don't your friends worry that you want them to play dead?
ReplyDeleteI've made her do worse for photographs before, she's used to it.
ReplyDeleteBy "made" I mean "asked her nicely", of course.
Very nice.
ReplyDeleteNow can you do a naked one, please?
Artistic. I really like it. :)
ReplyDeleteShe could have been nude and dead. Then she would have looked bad naked.
ReplyDeleteHmm. Yes. She is an attractive corpse. I'm sure you'll be even cuter though.
ReplyDeleteOk, now she's played dead can she sit up and beg?
ReplyDeleteI'm with Tim above, thats a very cool photo, but lets go with the more pretentious, but naked option. We can then compare and decide which works best.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chick lit recs. I haven't read any of those authors yet but I will check them out. I actually have a copy of "The Devil Wears Prada" but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. It'll be interesting to see if it's as bad as you say it is!
ReplyDeleteSee if you'd gone for the nude shot you could always have photoshopped in some nasty scars and ghastly carbuncles later.
ReplyDeleteGod, that's one dead-looking dudess. Could you make her up with prosthetics to look like a dead Dick Cheney? I'll pay you money...
ReplyDeleteSome people are just better at looking dead than others. I had a friend who used to ask us to take photos of him 'dead' with alarming regularity... at the bottom of a cliff, over some razor wire, with a bottle of bleach - The end result was pretty funny though.
ReplyDeleteWell done you, but her boosoms are far too distracting or is that just me? I likes the daisies and the castle.
ReplyDeleteIn conventional 'dead girl' photos the subject suffers a deficiency in the mammary department and wears a diaphanous shift. I blame the pre-raphaelites.
As for me, I would like to see some well formed boobies please .... not that I'm a lecherous old git or anything
ReplyDeleteVery artistic - talented wee lass aren't you?
ReplyDelete"At the last minute it suddenly seemed foolish to ask my ridiculously good-looking best friend to take her clothes off in front of my boyfriend."
ReplyDeleteUnless you're trying for a threesome.
Interesting pic. It made me think of Andrew Wyeth's painting "Christina's World," with the Toadies "Possum Kingdom" playing in the background. That is a compliment, by the way.
And thanks for the "Blonk of the Week"!