the whole world singin' along..
tuesday, january 29, 2002
dude, i've got "the whole world" by outkast stuck in my head, but i am really bad with lyrics so i keep singing it way wrong. except for the "bah, bah, bah bah buh dah!" part. such a crazy circus feel song.
i caught it during a commercial break of vh-1's meat loaf tv movie.
when i take a day off of classes due to head ache and cramps, you can tell i make sure to make the most of it... heh.
and then the weather was so pretty, and i had a fresh roll of film and the 35 mm camera in my possession, so i spent the afternoon walking around, hunting pictures to snap.
my two day photo-training session has resulted in three rolls of what i imagine will be highly bad snapshots of pure crap. we're talking pictures of, i don't know, sewer lids and brick buildings and candid shots of people taken before they could notice what i was up to. 72 pictures of pure random stuff. i'm thinking if i'm lucky, 10 will come out okay, and 2 great.
but i've got to learn somehow. playing with the dials and buttons and lenses. trying to capture stuff in dark shadows as well as bright sunlight. fiddling. twisting and turning little knobs and things. sneaking behind bushes. extreme zooming in on other bushes. stalking birds, trying to will them into flying, preferably in the path i've predicted.. ha ha, crap. but my crap.
the plan for my independent study class is for me to create a photo essay of the architecture and campus in general. the problem being that the main look of the buildings on campus is.. bricks. brick boxes. and more brick boxes. it's a bit difficult to find an interesting angle on a plain brick box with a sign in front.
but i walked around, and peeked, and stared, and every now and then i would catch a building in the sunlight and go "oh! so that's how that building works".. i'd find some angle that made just that brick box look a little bit neat and linear.. eh. anyway.
as i said. much ado about nothing. but it's fun to have that big, heavy camera dangling on my chest, and feel like i have a reason to squeeze in under low beams to try and catch a neat angle of a stair case. but people still pretty much elude me. that bugs me.
i rode three laps around campus last night on the shuttle bus to sneak at people looking out windows, but it's hard to bring myself to point the bigass camera at them with conviction. i don't like making people feel uncomfortable, and at this rate, i'm making myself uncomfortable. i mean, i would positively glare and growl if a stranger purposely kept taking pictures of me on the bus or whatever.
i think it would help if i had a smaller camera, like a small, flat digital camera. then again, that won't exactly further my understanding of the 35 mm camera. anyway. what's that weird song from almost famous? the simon & garfunkel song?
"She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said "Be careful, his bow tie is really a camera"
heh. how uninspired am i lately. i think i need to re-charge my journalling batteries. cin cin. :) �� 7:32 p.m.
