Hangover Easy by CoreyBlack
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This is for all those people out there with a hangover today. And you know who you are. Does this look familiar? Now I'm going to take some more aspirin and lay (or is that lie?) back down. Happy New Year!
Photographed near Kedzie and Lawrence Avenues in the Albany Park area of Chicago on April 17, 2011.
Comments (10)
Chipka
To avoid the ill-effects of a hangover, always drink a "clean" liquor...something clear and without those sugars that actually help to dehydrate you, and if you're drunk...sleep it off. Coffee doesn't help; it just makes you more aware of how blitzed you are. Some people are into that, though. Just sayin'. Now, as for this shot: the first thing I thought was that you and Gus VanSant were hanging out testing new camera angles and stuff like that. As a result of such testing, you've captured something nicely gritty and a bit disorienting. Everything is where it should be, except the "viewpoint character" and that's the tension that drives this shot. I really like that. The gravel and weed growth in the foreground really gives me a sense of discomfort. It's not like I "don't like it" but the placement of a "rough" surface so close to the viewer heightens a sense of ill-ease that I think really works well in this photo, especially since it's also one of your trademark low angle reality-grabs. I like the sense of distortion low angles inherently convey and it works in this piece. I can't quite decide where the anchor of this shot is, but that's a good thing. I'm drawn to the human focus: that one lady walking, but I'm also drawn to the tilted pole, like a compass marker pointing off in some other direction that is, most definitely, not magnetic north. I like this a lot. Feel free to try this shot again on a day with dramatic clouds.
blinkings
I've had a beer or seven in my time, but can honestly say I've never had a hangover or forgotten anything that happened the night before! I don't know why!!!!!!
mgtcs
Amazing POV my friend, excellent shot as usual! Well done!
kgb224
He he had those in my younger days. Stunning capture my friend. God Bless.
auntietk
If you're going and haven't done it yet, it's "lie down." (I also know the hyphen rule, so be forwarned! LOL!) I'm with Chip on the tension thing. Wowser! This has it in spades! This is why YOU are the master of the street shot and I am your puppy-dog pupil. (That would be correct usage of a hyphen, btw.) The angled pole, the angle of the shot, the person walking on the left and the yellow sign with a person walking on the right, cars going every which way -- it makes me look and look again. The gravel in the foreground isn't where gravel should be. It shouldn't be right up where my eyes are. That makes me think I'm perhaps recovering from a hangover, which I'm not. This rocks!!
durleybeachbum
Great street shot! I've not drunk alcohol for 47 years or so. I can get ill on a sherry trifle. But I suffer something chronic from excess food...
flavia49
great image
bmac62
Your POV reminds me of what Dean Martin used to say, "I know I've had a rough night when I wake up and have to look over the curb to see where I am." Actually, I think that was said by Don Rickles roasting Dean at back in the day...1970s I suspect. Great shot...
beachzz
Another of your GREAT city shots; you are the master!! As far as hangovers go, been there done that many years ago and will pass on trying it again. I won't give up my margaritas, but one will do (most of the time!! lol)
sandra46
SUPERB POV