homosapien observation #1

02.09.11

So it begins!  I've decided to start photographing and documenting my people watching adventures, and I've decided to share it with you!  "...you step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you'll be swept off to."  I think I walked around town for probably about an hour, hour and half.  Up the streets, back down, crossing streets.  Did some repeat streets, but had a nice time nonetheless.  I even passed a girl twice sitting on a bench with a cardboard sign "Anything helps".  The second time I went by I took a five dollar bill out of my pocket and handed it to her.  She looked at me in shock and told me "God bless," and in return I smiled and said, "Just pay it forward, okay?"  It gave me butterflies.  Doing that alone just about made my day, on top of just having a lovely time walking about.  Then a little bit later, I'd just crossed the street, smiling consciously (as opposed to absent mindedly), I began to walk up the sidewalk and noticed a woman coming towards me.  The first thing (or things rather) were her legs, absolutely stunning.  Great heels.  Just really well put together.  I can appreciate that.  So in an effort to capture her  effort, I followed her through the courtyard in a vain attempt to photograph her.  You should click on the image to enlarge it, the quality's not great, but you might get an idea of what I was going for.  After that I wandered down through the Mission Plaza and happened upon a photographer.  So what would be more appropriate that photographing a photographer?  She sort of up-and-took off rather suddenly, but I wanted to get some sort of shot nonetheless (once again, click on the image to enlarge it).  Cute little thing.  Looked like a fun person to talk to.


Walking around that day, I felt really...at home.  Really quite..comfortable.  And elated.  And just overall quite content.  I really don't think people realize how amazing they are.  Although human beings can be quite awful and terrible and crude and cruel and a myriad of other negative connotations, there's still something about us all that is so...human.

"The Game Has Changed"

We're exactly one month into the new year, and here's my first entry of eleven-and-two-thousand.
Time.
It's interesting isn't it?  It's always there, in the back of your head, nagging at you.  And it's around you!  It surrounds us all, like this invisible web.  So much is based upon this concept of 'time.'
"What time is my appointment?"
"I'm going to be late for work."
"It's about time you showed up!"
"When I have the time I will..."
Strange isn't it?  Kind of amazing, and hard to fully absorb.
Time.  The fourth dimension.

And now for something completely different.  (Well...sort of...)
Music!
How influenced are you by music?  Does it make (or break) your day?  It can put a smile on your face, it can make you cry.  It gives you goosebumps.  It makes you angry.  I can be fairly logical and realistic about some things, but when it comes to music, the way a brain interprets it and sends out its messages through your body absolutely enthralls me.  Does anyone else wish that there was music playing everywhere at all times?  Like it was constantly just in the air.  I think more music should be played.  Anywhere!  Everywhere!  And whilst we walk, and talk, and read, and eat, and do whatever it is that we creatures do, it's there, whispering its way through our ears and into our brains and souls.  Filling in the voids and cracks and tiny empty spaces.

What's your song today?