Hold it right there.
Mine is bigger than yours.
(Seriously. The cellist looks more confident than anyone else. Apparently size does matter to this group.)
Lay it down: sparse edition.
Another one in the category of “let’s carefully lay out all our instruments on the floor” while the musicians sit back. In what looks like an empty airport lounge.
Knock me over with a feather
If not a feather, perhaps was it an earthquake that knocked them over? A hurricane? Tornado?
And what are we supposed to think of that leg wrap-around? Gentlemen, care to explain?
Sunrise, Sunset
…Not to mention white shoes, eighties hair, and crazy puffed sleeves.
Anway, today’s post comes with a story from the reader who sent it in.
My mom’s old boss was a power-hungry, condescending man. I have been playing music since I was a kid, and he always told my mom that I should play in a quartet on a cruise ship, like it was the most glorified and honorable position I, from a not so well-to-do family could attain. After he and his wife came back from a cruise, they brought me a CD of the quartet they saw there! It was even SIGNED! ooooo…
Thanks for this platform upon which to spew my bitterness.
You’re welcome.
Photoshop, Photoshop, oh, photo, photo, photo, Photoshop…
Really, the original photo isn’t so bad.
No one’s eyes are closed. The women are smiling. The men look serious. There’s a fence and a little bit of orange color from the sunset.
But just imagine if the sunset had been a little more colorful.
Or the background more iconic.
Or more… stylized.
Fake, if you want to be blunt about it.
Yeah, Photoshop is not a substitute for taking actual photos.
(Thanks to the friend who sent these in.)
The woman who mistook her violin for a hat.
They seem super-sweet, but this picture is just plain awkward.
Gold.
Because when they’re this good bad, you can’t pick just one.
It’s a nice touch that they wore the same shoes with each outfit.
If you can call them “outfits.”
(We were saving this post for a rainy day, but since the quartet’s identity has been exposed (ahem), we decided to go ahead and share.)
Hey, somebody’s mom made them all matching scarves!
And draped them artistically and identically over their shoulders for them before sending them off to rehearsal.
Not your ordinary flower girls
You know how sometimes a woman wears a strapless dress and then poses awkwardly with her instrument and then the photo gets cropped in a way that makes her look naked by accident?
That’s not what’s going on here.
They actually just need to go put some clothes on.
Nobody puts Sandy Yamamoto in a corner.
The conflicting patterns! The disjunct outfits! The not knowing which way to look!
Sand in their shoes
I love these guys, but why are they wandering on a beach – a beach that trucks have been driving over – in concert dress? They look ridiculous.
