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.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

My walk home this afternoon was slightly more like a surrealist film than I was expecting, is what I think I'm saying.

Indeed! Was it a valentine-shaped heart or an anatomical heart?

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I suspect the party with the cell phones were playing an immersive augmented relality game, like Ingress. Of course, given the surrealist bent of your walk, it might have been something entirely different.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Dark man was an odd film since it was his first film after the Evil Dead trilogy. Campbell's cameo is quite fun.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Although I grump about the fact that my phone's camera is not very good compared to the one I use when traveling, it has the unparalleled virtue of being with me all the time. This has resulted in any number of random pictures of things I happened upon while walking, like a single gorgeous leaf on a sidewalk, or the tree that got yarn-bombed to look like a squid.

not communicating due to devices

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

I had not heard of the immersive games, but it's my impression that many people spend most of their time heads down, into their phones somehow.
The Dixie single-use serving ware company (like Dixie cups) is running ads on TV with the hashtag #darkfordinner, suggesting that people turn off all their devices for a family or friends dinner tonight (the 14th). A viewer of the ad doesn't realize the point until near the end of the ad. For most of the time, one just sees people chatting, telling stories, someone getting up from the table to show a dance move, lots of laughing. Nobody is seen whining that they are without texts for half an hour.

[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

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