Thursday, January 16, 2014

I was trying to write a novel
at the time
that the Tecate wars were going on
about a guy who worked in a photo lab
he was a custom photo printer
and the lab specialized in wedding photos
one of the specials the lab would offer was to vignette the couple
in the middle of a songsheet
the couple or photographer could choose from a number of
song titles
The Carpenters' We've Only Just Begun was very popular.
Another special was like this: the photographer would photograph the groom unzipping the brides dress. Then using fancy darkroom techniques the custom printer would make the image keyhole shaped with red all around it. Seeing red!
This was about the time that music videos were first being produced. The Eighties. The guy in the novel had an idea to make a music video using the J. Geils song Freezeframe!
It would be a video of a photo worker working in a photo lab. The photo worker would be working late into the night printing 4x6 photos at an automated printer and he would fall asleep while he was working and then a bunch of crazy people would come into the photolab, like midgets and dwarves and hot girls in bikinis and guys on motorcycles and they would all party and dance and have a good time. And the photo worker would meet a beautiful girl and fall in love. But then he would wake up to his fat boss yelling at him.

And now Freeze!