Dec 5, 2015

the arrival

In perusing my hard drive for a long overdue cleanup initiated by a new computer purchase (also long overdue), I stumbled across this short video sequence I made a while back.

Every autumn I celebrate the arrival of the Pacific Northwest rains (at least in normal weather years, which have been increasingly erratic lately). In 2011, buoyant with insomnia and ennui, I was coaxed into a late night stroll with my now-deceased point-and-shoot camera by the flirt of the season's first mist. This is the result.

It's fun to note just how bad camera technology was only a few years back -- or conversely, just how far camera technology has come in only a few years. Nonetheless, I think it's a moody snapshot that captured a calm reserve and hesitant indifference of a late, timeless hour. The taxi sequence perhaps turned out the best.

PS: I sense a broader, less ego-centric post brewing on more important,  exigent global and political matters. But such posts deserve articulate time and attention, of which I hope to find despite a grant submission deadline Junuary 15th.




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