Sunday, November 16, 2008

Nature vs Library pt.2

Backdrop Battle, Second Round


1981
Usa

58 comments:

Eli said...

ventriloquist?

fudge said...

OOOoo! the blonde is so sassy!

American in Norway said...

W H Y? Would you make your child wear glasses like that?

Emily said...

Wow, younger brother is not messing around with that collar.

Rebecca said...

Although I love the blond kid's face in the second pic, overall I favor the first photo.

chef_the_city said...

the kid in the glasses is obv a pimp-in-training...

fred davis said...

Starring Heino Jr. as The Puppet Master!

Anonymous said...

I bet the blond kid gets alot of pussay.

Anonymous said...

That's the young Clark Kent!

angelina said...

bitches are business

Ysbrand said...

The blond is so whoring the tall boy...

FF OCONNOR said...

the blonde is practicing for a his future running the cassio in Reno with Nick Papageorgio

Anonymous said...

Big brother looks like Christopher Reeve. Little brother looks like he watched too many blaxploitation movies.

T.Allen-Mercado said...

The blonde's facial expression in the second pic rocks!I bet he's total coolness now!

Anonymous said...

Yeah Baby!!!

Roger Levy said...

these kids actually look kind of awesome to me!

Tagg said...

Again, the genius of Olan Mills. If your son is unable to smile and wears a tie pin at age 11, Olan brings a far more photogenic kid out of his storage locker to pose with him. Years later, your son makes up some awkward story about an accident at a cracker factory to explain to his bride-to-be why she's never met his younger brother.

Praise be to Olan M.

phoebe marie said...

i am in love with these kids. the blonde one in particular.

Neal Snow said...

There's a good reason why the blond kid has such an odd look on his face in the second picture.

The photographer, Mr. Olan Mills, kept trying to make big brother crack a smile for the camera. Olan would tell dumb jokes, make faces, and nothing worked on big bro. But little brother, who needed little provocation to laugh, kept busting out, ruining the shots, until he finally bucked up and bit down as hard as he could on the inside of his mouth. I can still taste the blood, thinking about it. Because I WAS THAT KID.

And no, Tagg, I wasn't yanked out of some storage locker to pose with random laughter-challenged kinders. Although that would have been a pretty cool job for a nine year old.

alyssa said...

there's no way blonde kid isn't a pimp right now.

Anonymous said...

That's Truman Capote's son by artificial insemination, I swear!

Anonymous said...

I am in love with Phoebe Marie's breasts.

profp said...

neal snow - thanks for providing the back story. Now, can you explain Mr. Olan Mills' (and his minions') strange ability to make it look as though the two people in the photo are about a mile apart? The perspective in the Library shot is mind-boggling!

Jessica said...

I recognize both backdrops! My cousin has a baby picture with Nature, and I have a preschool picture with Library.

Tagg said...

I love neal snow.

Anonymous said...

The little one looks like a little blond Jarvis Cocker.

That's cool.

-cj- said...

I'm pretty sure in the second photo, the blond kid just got done saying, "When I say Sharp, I mean business!"

Michael said...

Is it me, or does the blond haired kid look like he's squeezing out a fart in both pics?

Neal Snow said...

Michael said...
"Is it me, or does the blond haired kid look like he's squeezing out a fart in both pics?"

Y'know, I can't rightly remember. I'll have to say "probably".

jb said...

The younger one HAS to be Chuck Klosterman...

Auntie Mame said...

Eli and Peyton Manning - the early years.

Moacher said...

The blond kid went on to sing for a band called Pulp.

Milton said...

The kid in the back looks absolutely fightening! Like a possesed little child.

Anonymous said...

These portraits are too cool to be on this website. They are aesthetically pleasing. Choices were made, and they were the right choices.

ShadowStabbing said...

The older one has a nice dirt 'stache on the upper lip. He probably thought it would disappear if he smiled.

Lance Ehlers said...

"Blondie calls the shots now, motherfucker! You hear me?! Blondie calls the shots! You want me to rain on your goddman parade, big brother? You want me to tell mom and dad where you stash your nudie magazines? Do you? Well, then you do as I say, get me?! Good. Soon as this dickhead takes these pictures, you're buying me a Happy Meal and shining my shoes. Now smile. I SAID SMILE!"

Anonymous said...

who knew that jason bateman and jarvis cocker knew each other?

Anonymous said...

the small Guy has an IQ of 147 !

Jeff said...

Older brother looks kinda hot...
(hey, don't judge me!)

Anonymous said...

1981? - That can't be right. Ives Saint Laurent was a grown man at that time.

Colleen said...

Blonde kid is all, "Do I make you randy? Do I?"

The Precarious Obviologist said...

Is that blond kid a 10 year old Roy Orbison?

Belladonna said...

That blond kid does my taxes, and pretty creatively I might add.

80'sRox said...

In a few years, the two of them will make a perfect sleeve for a technopop album.

breet said...

These kids look like they're related to Wes Andersen's Tenenbaums.

Anonymous said...

I just saw the library pic on Awkward Family Photos.

Anonymous said...

Big brother looks like a cardboard cut-out.

Anonymous said...

Jason Bateman? Roy Orbison?!? Not hardly. It's Jake Gyllenhaal and Nick Rhodes.

Anonymous said...

brown hair: oh my gosh, i may get laid tonight ....

blond hair: i got a bitch blowing me right now

Hal said...

Big brother looks like a young Steve Martin.
Little brother looks like Kitty Kelly from "Dark Night Returns"

Radio Free Willy said...

If the Pet Shop Boys were Mormon...

Anonymous said...

I bet they grew up to be awesome. I'm in love with them!

Anonymous said...

They look like the best newscasting team ever.

Anonymous said...

Neal Snow you aren't that kid. Those 2 boys are my cousins. (my mothers sisters children.) Don't believe me? They have a big sister.

Anonymous said...

Patrick Swayze?

squeege said...

Timeless combovers are timeless.

Anonymous said...

The blonde = mini Warhol.

Anonymous said...

When did Phil Spector have a love child?