It’ll be mannequin time for a while here in the blog!
«Mannequin comes from the French word mannequin, which had acquired the meaning “an artist’s jointed model”, which in turn came from the Middle Dutch word manneken, meaning “little man, figurine”»
Furthermore, each mannequin will be accompanied by a quote from a song. Kudos and great honour to those of you who’ll know which song each quote is from (without searching the internet for answers of course).
I don’t know why she’d see me
I don’t know what else to be
I’d like to think she cried for me
If you can/will: name the song, or join the mannequin party by posting your own mannequin photo (together with a quote from a song).
Dinosaur Jr.’s “I don’t think so” from 1994.
the mid 90s is my FAVORITE era of music which is wierd because I’m old. 😉 I LOVED so much of what came out then, and know waaayyyy more than anyone should about it!
Fabtastic!! That was quick! (just realized that I wrote fabtastic instead of fantastic, but I’ll leave it like that: it can be a mix of fabulous and fantastic).
Your answer, Dinosaur JR, is of course absolutely correct!
I’ve also been a fan of Dinosaur JR since the early 90’s and I’m going to their concert in Oslo this coming thursday! 😀
ps..don’t have a mannequin pic for you, though!
No problem. I’ll be posting mannequins for the next week or two, so you can always join in later if you want to and if you find a suitable mannequin.
(you know what they say: a good mannequin is hard to find)
Here’s the official video for the song:
Great shot, and a great band – saw them when they were touring Bug. Excellent.
The opening track on Bug is just mind blowing!
(P.S. Feel free to join in on some mannequin posts).
Thanks, Cardinal – I’ll see what I can do…
Great shot of the …. mannekäng 😀
Don’t know that song at all, even though I saw the title now in the comments…
This is gonna take some research……
Too late… someone has already guessed it … no mannequin photos I am afraid – I only have plush toys.
I don’t have any plush toys, but I have a feeling that I’ll start seeing a lot more toys in my home than what I’ve been used to…
😉
Great idea! And your mannequin is cute.
Thanks. There’s just something about girls in uniforms… 😉
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What a fantastic idea, Cardinal!
I doubt if I’d know the songs, but I’m looking forward to discovering some great music.
More «mannequins and music» posts will come this week (and probabaly also next week).
Didn’t guess the song, but I love the mannequin! She could have been from the Forties. Really nice.
The American Forties is somewhere around the Norwegian Seventies (we’re always a bit behind).
Well, this is an interesting challenge. Do people look at you oddly when you are taking photos like this?
Only when I am sneaking around during nights, shooting inside the windows of empty, closed, abandoned shops.
So, basically, always 🙂
I used to think these old style ones were so creepy but the more modern ones are unsettling in a different way.
At least the old ones had heads, eyes and facial features. The modern ones are often headless, or at best faceless and anonymous.
I remember my dad used to have a couple in the basement, it was a bit scary to go down there alone when I was a kid (too vivid imagination).
Oh yes, as a child that would have scared the hell out of me! Instead I mostly had dead animals to scare the day lights out of myself with. At home we lived by the valley so mice and rats would sneak into our house and then eat poison and elegantly die in middle of a room or on a step (until we got cats and then the mouse and rat problem ended) and on the farm there always seemed to be discarded excess cats (no time for sentimentality on the farm, if there were extra cats wondering around they got shot and tossed in the bluff) and dead calves and dead deer… good times :S or the time I tripped on a discarded deer hoof and almost landed on a calf. Despite all of this – I still found the mannequins just as scary, because as you say – imagination!
Cats are great if you live in a house. I didn’t check if this is true or not (the internet probably knows), but I’ve heard that rats and mice stay away from homes with cats, because they can smell it if a cat lives in a house.
Sounds reasonable to me!