Saturday, 30 August 2008

• Don't You Know That Things Go In Cycles?

  Once A Fool Always A Fool
  
  What is it about video cameras that make people act the fool?  I had to shoot some footage in Times Square today and in a short time dealt with the following:
  
  - Some guy asking me if I wanted to film his junk while untucking it
  - A street vendor wanting to fight me because he thought I was filming his table of "I <3 NY" t-shirts
  - An idiot honking obnoxiously and swerving dangerously close to me in his van while I was filming by the curb
  - No shortage of fools making stupid faces, waving crazily, and yelling into my camera lens while I was trying to film something
  
  Why is it acceptable to disrupt someone with a camera while s/he's working?  I've never seen other people working in public get hassled this way.  You don't see random people:
  
  - running up and strumming a street performer's guitar or banging on their keyboard
  - grabbing a traffic cop's whistle and blowing into it madly
  - grabbing a street artist's brush and repeatedly stabbing his canvas
  - grabbing the entire stack from the flyer guy and throwing it into the air, screaming triumphantly
  - running up to a breakdancer while he's doing a backspin and spinning him the other way or tackling him while he's doing a headspin
  
  What kind of pride and satisfaction is derived from making funny faces and yelling moronically into a camera?  If mom was watching the evening news with friends and saw her son acting the fool, would she proudly declare, "That's my boy!"  What if I was filming "When Idiots Attack"?  Why would someone want immortalize themself as a fool?  Thinking back to family vacations and other outings, I'm left wondering why there is always that one dumbass stranger who has to jump in and ruin a group shot.  I study those photos and burn the images of those A-holes into my memory so that if I ever run into them again I can say, "Hey remember that one time you ruined my family's picture at Disneyworld?"  Then I would punch them in the face and say "Bet you wish you got a picture of that" and then run away, laughing maniacally.
  
  The End
  
  PS.  I exhausted all my synonyms for idiot in this post.  I opted not to use nincompoop, nitwit, and simpleton because no one talks like that anymore.
  
  

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  Kidding Around
  
  I stopped by a playground in Chinatown today.  Seems the like the kiddies are getting in their last bit of summer.  I have to admit I'm slightly bummed about summer ending as well.  Oh well, guess I better go shopping for my new bookbag, trapper keeper, and pencil case.
  
  

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  Get Up To Get Down
  
  

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