Yesterday, after the third time I started the hour and a half uploading process for my latest video, which you can see here, I decided to go for a walk. I still didn’t get it to upload properly in HD, but I was so angry by the third time I had to do this (export the video with new settings, upload, etc) that I had to do something.
I walked about a block or two, in no particular direction trying to pick a song. I wanted to find something to tell me everything was going to be ok. And so I hit shuffle and Time To Pretend by MGMT came on and I had to laugh, though despitte the ironic title it was exactly the song I wanted to listen to.
I made my way around down some streets I’ve never walked on and I saw this in the pavement:
and I stopped, smiled, took a picture. My iPod was playing A Perfect Circle now. I took a few more steps and saw this:
and for a minute I wondered if I had come across them in the wrong order, but decided it worked either way. Then I thought about how I wished there was some way I could show these pictures, and this site, to whoever did this. Prove to them someone noticed. I’m sure they’d like that.
I turned a corner and immediately saw this:
and was really taken with the beauty created by the contrast between the clear glass and the trees green trees. This beautiful infusion of nature and human ingenuity. I swear to God half a block down I see this on someone’s lawn:
I don’t know why someone tied a bow around some little plant, but it was the icing on the cake. I was in a better mood now. I walked back around a little more and headed home. I snapped two more pictures:
The first one I just liked because I know whoever did it was just having some fun. And in my eyes, they made the sewer drain look better. More fun. I just liked the flag because it was torn, and all sad and shriveled looking. I’m not a big fan of what flags represent.
So I got back home and had forty minutes left on my youtube upload. After it was done, it still didn’t work properly, so I gave up, as we all should after trying three times. I can always do it later.
