In a thoughtful nod to Fred Astaire’s famous dance with a hat rack from 1951’s Royal Wedding, David Byrne has a similar encounter in 1984’s concert film Stop Making Sense. During a bridge of what is arguably Talking Heads’ most famous (and some would argue, only real) love song, “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)”, Byrne eagerly pulls a tall lamp into a dance. He grins but dances almost gingerly with his partner, much more cautious than Astaire. He hugs the lamp to him at one point very briefly and you can see all kind of concentration slip away from his face and reveal pure enjoyment. Feet on the ground, head in the sky, if you will.
I saw both Royal Wedding and Stop Making Sense as a kid and immediately picked up on the link between the two films. It seemed to be a sort of secret handshake from one artist to another, a lovely way of featuring and honoring the things you love. They are technically lonely dances, missing the look back from a real partner, but you couldn’t tell it by watching these two. They make everything look easy, possible, deliciously romantic.
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from the Red Bull Thre3Style DJ competition, February 6 2010
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX
Lighting: Nikon SB-600 with off-camera TTL and homemade diffuser
Software: crop and exposure tweaks in Lightroom 2, adjustment layers in Photoshop CS4
from the Red Bull Thre3Style DJ competition, February 6 2010
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX
Lighting: Nikon SB-600 with off-camera TTL and homemade diffuser
Software: crop and exposure tweaks in Lightroom 2, adjustment layers in Photoshop CS4
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from the Red Bull Thr3Style DJ competition, February 6 2010
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX
Lighting: Nikon SB-600 with off-camera TTL and homemade diffuser
Software: crop and exposure tweaks in Lightroom 2, adjustment layers in Photoshop CS4
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