Aug 28, 2023

Mid Way Through

Open that book of you. There is still some blank pages left. How many? Well more, some, less, one, or many. Just depends on when you happen to open the thing.

Open that book of you; on that day you happen to open the thing. How many, left? Its a rhetorically inaccurate question.

A kilo, a milli, a centi, a gram. Each carry weight.

Open that book of you. There is still some blank pages left. How many? Well more, some, less, one, or many. Just depends on when you happen to open the thing.


Glad-Handing


 

Down to the right & around the back


 

Puritas Cupiditatis


 

Patina


 

Chişinău Armistice

Aug 18, 2023

Sine qua non

The temptation was to capture share everything everywhere, so you could see it all at once. Then the lens ceased to share the capture. So I moved back to words. 

Thick blacktip 1.5 meters or so. Eye to eye and probably pregnant. In less than a meter of reef water. I was lower she was higher on the reef. 

Nope she's not in that video, nor is the scuba class I dropped in upside down on at 15 meters in the middle of the pea soup. Wait. Lets frame it. About 500 meters from shore with 1 meter of visibility to be generous. Nothing but bubbles to know where they sat on the bottom and a blind free dive down to the bottom to see. 

The current carries bubbles, so took 3 dives to find them. A scuba instructor who knows me and new divers likely to jump at me; SHARK? no joe.

Back at the surface, accidental 4AM view of the Perseid meteor shower. And just like that. The best parts of last weekend never recorded only written. 

Aug 6, 2023

忘れ物

There tossed there-on the throughfare, keys. Yes, an explosion of keys on a New York sidewalk. What did, do, does this collection open? Why, how, when did they land to lay here? 

Seriously how did the person who dropped these not hear that many keys chiming across sidewalk?

This was not a single twinkle of metal across the concrete. This was the full on clanging of an entire symphony of keys.

Aug 2, 2023

Public Restrooms

Most people pee 4-10 times every 24-hours. Each time we pee, about 250mls of pee-pee is excreted. Meaning on average it takes 4+ hours for pee on said city street to evaporate on an average day.  

How many people pee on the streets on the given streets of a western city in a given day? Well... my nose tells me it is more than the number of hours in a day it takes to make the smell escape my nose. Luckily we poop a bit less often...

Public restrooms. Yes, not public toilets. Are a place the public can access with relative ease to rest and release. In Western cities this is indeed complicated by a small, but dysfunctional minority turning the rest into an opioid induced long stay.

The question my dear tax prayers is: does the smell, outweigh the cost? 

Corporate Vandalism