SUMMERTIME BLUES
“We’re smack dab in the middle of those lazy-hazy-crazy days of summer, and with it an incurable affliction – the Summertime Blues.
The title to Eddie Cochran’s 1958 masterpiece is intriguing, almost incongruous. Rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950’s was teenage music and, for teenagers, summertime is that magic time of year when school is out, the weather is nice, the livin’ is easy, and your mama’s good looking. What’s there to be blue about? Ah, of course: those pesky summer jobs. Can’t get the night off to go on a date. Even appeals to the United Nations or congressional representatives prove fruitless – “I’d like to help you son but you’re too young to vote.”
No, you do not have to illustrate the song… just let it influence you a little bit in your “SUMMERTIME BLUES” image.
NOTE: THIS IS ALSO A “FREE WEEK” SO YOU CAN CHOOSE TO DO ANY OF THREE THINGS:
ONE:
You can redo a previous assignment that you feel you can do a whole lot better.
One assignment.
TWO:
You can do an assignment you missed and get closer to be caught up.
One assignment.
THREE:
You can do this “summertime” shoot.
There are not many parameters other than this shot should be an iconic “summer” shot with YOUR OWN TWIST.
Don’t go shoot a swimming pool, or some swim fins or a melting ice cream shot… tell me a story.
In fact, you can submit up to three images to tell your “summertime story”. I seriously want you guys to pull out all stops and make something amazing. MAKE something amazing.
JUST BECAUSE IT HAS NO ‘RULES’ DOESN’T MEAN IT CAN BE ‘MAILED IN’… NO WAY. I WANT A KILLER, BRILLIANT, AWESOME, INCREDIBLE IMAGE THAT PULLS ME INTO YOUR SUMMERTIME!
SUMMERTIME BLUES
About a-workin’ all summer just to try to earn a dollar
Every time I call my baby, try to get a date
My boss says, “no dice son, you gotta work late”
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a-gonna do
But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
If you want to use the car to go ridin’ next Sunday
Well, I didn’t go to work, told the boss I was sick
“Well, you can’t use the car ’cause you didn’t work a lick”
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a gonna do
But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
I’m gonna take my problem to the United Nations
Well, I called my congressman and he said “whoa!”
“I’d like to help you son but you’re too young to vote”
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a gonna do
But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
2020 Group
