Sometimes, all too seldom, I strike pure gold. The enraged hooker was certainly a 24-karat moment. And this was too.
Here we see three different people, reacting in three delicious ways to the rapacious, rampaging JewCam. Plus one hallucinatory, oblivious apparition, transfixed by the neon extravaganza before her dazzled eyes.
This photo, as you'll notice, was taken under sunlight in the Times Square area. It was some months before the scare. There was plenty of light, but in order to startle people, I set the camera to flash.
My favorite film is "Night of the Living Dead" - the 1968 black and white George Romero classic. The diverse group of ghouls above lack only morgue tags to qualify for the greatest horror movie ever made. Here is a still from it.
There's a moment early in the flick when Johnny menacingly croaks to his dear sister, "They're coming to get you, Baaaarbara!" I had a Barbara moment when I first saw this Times Square image pop onto my monitor. Eeeeek!
As a homage to Romero's masterpiece, I present this photo in both living color and in mortiferous monochrome.
If you haven't seen the movie, please do.
And if you're in Times Square, remember, Alan's coming to get you!
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ReplyDeleteGreat images, Alan ! Keep them coming.
ReplyDeleteThe resemblance in theme, between the Times Sq images and the one from the film, is indeed lucid - thanks in part to your elucidation.
I ought to see the movie. Thanks for the recommendation.
If your write up doesn't spook anyone, the final image certainly will. ooooooooooo !!!
bk
Thanks, BK. As long as I have an audience, I'll keep blogging.
ReplyDeleteYou find the final image spooky, do you? But why, my friend? It's just dear, old Alan one fine day strolling down the street in search of live human flesh to devour. Nothing to get freaked by. Chill.
The fellow on the left looks perfectly affable and the one on the right just put out; it's the gal in the middle who is mildly ghoulish, perhaps. Voodoo and such is mildly close to the bone in my house at the moment. Just got through an extremely unsatisfactory child custody and access trial. My son's best friend is Ethiopian; his skank of an Irish-Australian girlfriend took the children off to Ireland for two weeks to see her dying "granny" and then just stayed there. For two years till we dragged her back with a successful Hague Convention on International Child Abduction application in the Irish High Court. Much of the material filed against him there had to do with his obviously being a voodoo practitioner and a Rastafarian -- well, Ethiopia; Haiti; Jamaica; all the same to an Irish Catholic. But then came the substantive trial in Brisbane: would she be allowed to go back to Ireland with them and effectively shut them out of his life forever. I knew we were doomed when the judge pronounced the letter H as "hoitch," an Irish Catholic shibboleth. His argument among other was that he'd spent a year there himself and never once set foot in the street without someone hollering, "Nigger, nigger, nigger -- go back to Nigeria: we don't need you here." Not the best environment for half-Ethiopian children to be raised in; the judge suggested that it can't be worse in Ireland than it is in Australia. Well yes, it is, he says.
ReplyDeleteHA! love the mortiferous monochrome. a. here's to your barbara moment!
ReplyDelete:) Love the monochromes. As I had indicated earlier... love the picture with the various emotions captured in one shot!
ReplyDeleteBtw, where is your weapon? Your canon?! :)
Masalai: to me the "affable" chap looks delighted to have spotted a human to feed on. And the man on the right appears to be strategizing his fiendish ghoul attack. The blue-eyed zombie is spine-chilling - mindlessly making her way to her meal of human entrails. But the girl in the middle is, as you said, by far the scariest. So pretty, so evil, so transfixed by the sight of an imminent meal - aka Alan.
ReplyDeleteIt's an "eye of the beholder" situation and this beholder has an eye for horror.
Ms Mistress....I wish you many Barbara moments as well. Have you seen the movie? I'd love to watch it with you by my side.
ReplyDeleteMy weapon we will not discuss in a family-oriented blog like this, headtrip. Suffice it to say that it does the job.
ReplyDeleteMy Canon, though, is an EOS 20D, rather elderly. I'm thinking of updating to a more modern machine.
As to the photo, I too was delighted by the range of feeling accidentally captured by my random technique. About 2% of the zillions of shots are great, but they make it all worth it.
Black and white is such a class act, ain't it?
Since im kinda tired today (maybe because it has been rainning since 2 am) im gonna write in spanish...
ReplyDeleteAlancito... sabes que amo tus fotos, no he visto la pelicula pero me han dado ganas de verla.
Esta foto me gusta porque muestra como distintas personas reaccionan frente a la vida: el agresivo, la indiferente, el divertido y la chica de atras podria ser la interesada que no se atreve a preguntar. ¿No crees?
--Melody
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ReplyDeleteTo me this photograph could be entitled, ,Death and All Her Minions, as I find the dead eyes of the American Girl doll (with the fangs in the billboard) perfectly complements the attractive yet disembodied head of Death centered in the frame. Fittingly enough, this image could also represent Times Square after the Zombie/Vampires (in Matheson's, I Am Legend) have finally done in Robert Neville and championed their new society. Alan is legend.
ReplyDeleteEs verdad, Meme. La foto es como una prueba Rorschach en la cual cada uno se descubre interpretando las actitudes del elenco. Realmente, sus miradas son miradas entre miradas que no dicen nada de lo que estaban sientiendo. Pero así son las fotos: mini-ficciones que crean un drama fugaz e ilusiorio. Es fascinante esa dinamica y me encanta exlotarla al máximo.
ReplyDeleteY sí, please see the movie. I have seen it more than 13 times and it is better with every viewing.
The Lady in the picture looks like she can feature in the movie that you mentioned ! Her eyes are super transfixed :)
ReplyDeleteAlan you need to wear a body armor!
ReplyDeleteNot a bad idea, dear. I'm getting a bit worried too. But I won't let that stop me. Perhaps you would like to be my bodyguard?
ReplyDeleteI'm loving these photos...and next time I'm in Times Square, I'll be looking around anxiously, like a kid anticipating a promised snack after having finished all his lunch, with that "all-kid" excitement of waiting for a barrage of flashes going off a few feet away. I'll yell, "That's him!! That's Alan!" Then, I'll just have to remember to smile. Big time. Or not. Depending on what my mood will be...I'll at least be the true Native New Yorker I am and give you the finger. Either way, it works for me! haha!
ReplyDeleteI'd much prefer a Lady Finger to a smile. (Thanks for lingering in my reprehensible world.)
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