So much noise, but you can hear me and I'll trouble your mind

[sovay]

Because I do not carry a camera with me, I did not take a picture of the cherry-colored wax heart slowly melting on the asphalt of a parking lot as I walked back from Harvard Square and Pemberton's this afternoon. It was really striking, though.

It would probably have been intrusive to take a picture of the three people I met walking up my street as I continued home, but two of them were looking at their phones and one of them was studying a tablet, so maybe they wouldn't have noticed. They were walking in a group, none of them talking to the others. I wondered if they were part of some kind of scavenger hunt, but maybe they were just conversing in print.

My walk home this afternoon was slightly more like a surrealist film than I was expecting, is what I think I'm saying. Or at least a near-future science fiction.

The late show at the Brattle tonight is Sam Raimi's Darkman (1990). On handful_ofdust's recommendation, I'm going. I really think the only movies I've seen by Raimi are Spider-Man (2002) and Spider-Man 2 (2004). I keep associating him with Bubba Ho-Tep (2002), but that's just because of Bruce Campbell.

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[drwex]

It would probably have been intrusive to take a picture of the three people I met walking up my street as I continued home

You know about Vivian Maier right? (http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/)

[sovay]

You know about Vivian Maier right?

I do! I haven't seen the documentary, or even the book of her photography, but I've seen her images online. Thanks for the link, though—I had not seen that site.

[drwex]

There was recently found and put online (but stupid me lost the link) a series of her self-portraits. They are STUNNING. Her eye for angle and composition is to weep. When I first read about her the story was that she didn't like being photographed so to see a collection of "selfies" from her was doubly surprising.