...Happy Birthday, Mr. President... by spothmann
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With small, unsteady steps she climbed up the stairs of the podium.
It was so silent in Madison Square Garden on that 19th of May, 1962 that one could have heard a pin falling to the floor.
She dropped her white fur stola to the floor and looked around the audience with her trademark smile, which somehow seemed fake that day.
With a shivering voice, she started to sing.
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday, ....
She stopped singing for a moment, as if she was considering which line would come next. A moment too long for the audience not to notice it.
Then she continued.
...Mister President...
She had the audience on her side.
That evening in Madison Square Garden was her last big appearance in public, and probably no one in the audience, not even she herself, knew that she would be dead less than five months later.
I have always adored her, and this is my tribute to her.
The Microphones are available in the freestuff. Ockham was so nice to make me the Lectern when I asked for it in the Poser Forum.
The hair is 'Long Hair Evo' by Kozaburo; the gown is 'The Dress' from DAZ with my textures. Character texture also by me.
This is my very first try on rendering with 'volumnetric' lights in Poser 5. Very minor postwork in PhotoImpact.
Thank you for seeing my image and remembering her.
Comments (4)
sackrat
Nice,.......you do know that in fact she had to be sown into the dress.
spothmann
Yes - look at my product page; I've written it there ;-)
Shardz
Gorgeous image, great comments to go with it! Very historic, beautiful and sad....Yet another beautiful woman dead from the hands of the Kennedys. And I can't believe Ted Kennedy outlived Johnny Carson, yet another tragedy. Great work here! Norma Jean rules!
Tamela.J.
You've done very beautiful texturing. You might have tried lowering the transparancy to give that feeling of Marilyns dress she wore that night a bit more! The dress was not actualy sewn on her, just in some places, it was because Marilyn had a terrible problem with her weight & had gained a few pounds, therefore her seamstress had to let some of it out on the back seam & sew it while Marilyn was in the dress! I have a canvas painting I did that Ive not published on the net Of her in that dress. I have collected Marily sence I was 14, 28 yrs now. Theres a painting I did that has been published on the net in my gallery of Marilyn. ;o) Fabulous work & tribute!