PILLS: the Musical!! by CoreyBlack
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Occasionally, as I'm sorting through the endless banks of pills I take on a daily basis, my mind wanders, as it so frequently does, to the absurd. I envision animated pills dancing about, singing the correct pronunciation of their unpronounceable names, and what ailments they treat. Happy, smiling pills and capsules moving about the stage in various, jaw-dropping Cirque de Soleil style acrobatic performances, as a choir of mineral supplements provide stirring backing vocals, and an unseen announcer reads off all the side effects.
Photographed on my computer desk,( which is presently crammed with 1950s research material for the period detective story I'm working on), in Chicago, Illinois on October 2, 2012.
I've been so wrapped up in this other project that I haven't had the time to post or comment as much as I'd like to here on Renderosity. I also owe (very) belated happy birthday greetings to Marilyn (beachzz) ,and Bill (bmac62). As always, thanks to everyone who is kind enough to view and comment on my gallery.
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Comments (12)
Chipka
I remember when you did this. You should have put those big, whompin, huge horse pills/vitamins in there...I can't remember, was that your potassium? Those were big enough to house small families. I like the odd blue color this has and I remember the day this was taken. And just how many side-effects would all of these combined have on a single person? Inquiring minds want to know. This is a great shot. I got a good giggle from it. Or, as someone else would say: "It is enough good."
blinkings
Yeah until I was 40 I didn't have to take any. Now I'm 43 and I have to take 16 every DAMN day! The pleasures of getting old eh!
LovelyPoetess
Ok, you got me chuckling over the mental image of all those leaping, gyrating pills with their chorus backing! Great imagination (and image)! : )
auntietk
Wowser! My mental image of your musical is QUITE clear! LOL! Singing and dancing pills. I can see the diamond-shaped ones spinning on their points, perhaps doing a tap dance. I'm glad to see none of them restricts your imagination too much! :)
Sea_Dog
I think I know what you're talking about. Before I lost Mrs Sea_Dog she was taking huge numbers of meds for various ills. She sometimes said she dreamt about legions of pills chasing her around the house. Well done, Corey.
durleybeachbum
Hilarious! I shall devote a little time to choreography for my inhalers.
whaleman
That is one animation I'd like to see completed! And adding a side dance by the Inhalers for Andrea, which could perhaps be called 'Breathless.' (I know, not funny) Perhaps the first one could be called 'Hard To Swallow' by the Pill Poppers!
Northlandsplasher08
heh...thanks for the reminder...off to my own dancing wonders of modern medicine LOL
sandra46
WONDERFUL IDEA THEY ARE A LOT OF PILLS TO PLAY WITH
flavia49
amazing image and idea!
beachzz
Chorus line!! Love this shot and ty for the wishes!!
anahata.c
re the birthday gift one month late for marilyn and half a month for bill, they affirm that birthdays should be celebrated all year long. Esp with a delightful upload like this. First of all, the pic is actually fascinating and very blue and a real eye-catcher. Really fun and enticing pic. Secondly, it's got your day to day pills doing a dance for you, which is what it's about. Third, when you're immersed in a long creative project, asking your pills to do a Busby Berkeley dance for you, while you crane your camera above the stage, shouting directions, is the bee's freakin' knees. Fourth, I gotta wonder how long it took you to organize each letter by pill, and if you tried out several variations before you got this one. (As in, "no, no: It's good but not great---I wanna feel your pain, I wanna see your happiness! Capsules---you're capsules, not freakin' pills: Roll, be smooth, act like capsules, goddammit...") Fifth, I love the diagonal ones. (Are those for real? I never get pills like that, never.) Sixth, it proves once again that artists do some really whacked-out things when they're in the middle of a project. (I actually sorted anchovies by length. That was all---by length. And---100% true---I put it on my resume. No more to that story, just I put a line up of every anchovy in my house into hierarchical order, and said it was one of my hobbies, on my resume. That came off real fast...) And seventh, it's a really fun blue shadowed shot! It's too bad you can't do that with your characters and places, ie, from your tales. As in have them line-up on your desktop and do formations for you. Characters, after being rewritten 2 million times, need exercise. Need to work out all those tensions. A character of mine actually shouted---in my piece---"Enough with the freakin' EDITS! I sucked to begin with---you really think you're improving things???" I hope you're doing well health-wise, since you're posting your pills: Sorry you have to take all these, but this is one way of dancing with necessity. A delightful post. (Corey, my fav's died a long time ago, and I'm too lazy to fix them, so I've just decided to stop them altogether. Just know: Your whole gallery's a fav. Just keep that in mind. Don't take the lack of them as an indication that I don't have any favorites here. They're all fav's...)