this is an extract from an upcoming split zine i'm doing with a friend of mine. my section is titled stroll. my friends, emily's, is called ticket to anywhere. enjoy
Missed photo 1. Prague
Kings Charles bridge, early evening, sun setting across the bridge, castle lighting up. I stand across from the bridge waiting for the light to change. Across from me two kids play soccer, the concrete outside the milk bar their field. They kick the ball back and forth until one of them dives to save the goal. I walk across the lights towards the bridge, as I pass them I smile at their guile and athleticism all the more so because there is no ball.
Missed photo 2. Tabor.
A cobbled stoned street outside a cafe. Mid afternoon, shadows of bikes. A couple stand talking to their friend the cafe owner. The guy is on the outside, the women on the inside. On the back of the womens bike there is a chair. It is occupied by a kid who would be two and a half at tops. The kid is reading the paper. He looks as if he's trying to figure the subtlties of string theory. Perplexed I watch for a couple of minutes before working past. As I do I cast a glance the kids' way... He's reading the cartoons.
Missed photo 3. The Lourve.
Under Delariox two kids sit with paper and crayons. A brother and sister of six and nine. The six year old has his back turned and is drawing pictures of cowboys and Indians. The cowboys are blowing off the Indians head. The girl is drawing the picture. The flag is at half mast purple and a green.
An art idea.
Naomi told us this story one day over the dinner table at CESTA in Tabor. The story goes as follows, a video artist from Canada got given a grant for a project from the Canadian Arts Council. The idea he had was to travel around the world as an expat Canadain filming all the locations he visited and then making a short doco about that. Well so that was the idea he told the Arts Council and that was the idea the Arts Council funded; in reality his idea was much much different. In reality he travelled around the world filming people waiting for aereoplanes clandestinely. This he did by using a hidden camera in his bag. He would film people sleeping in lounges, feet walking past, conversation between stranded passengers and lost travellers, yawning faces, tired faces, happy faces, laughing faces. This he did for six months without never once leaving the confines of an airport. (His methodology was land in one city, pay for the cheapest flight on standby then wait in the airport til that plane left repeating this at each subsequent airport.) when he finally arived back at Toronto airport the Canadian custom officers took him aside and questioned him in the deportation lounge for two days wondering where he had disappeared to. For the first day he refused to tell them what he had been doing, by the second day he changed tactics and decided that it was best if he told them what he had been doing and so he did. It was only after the Canadian custom officers saw the video footage that they believed him and let him go. That video footage has since been shown in the Guggenheim museum in New York and from Naomi's account has some of the most beautiful slow images in the world.
Missed photo 1. Prague
Kings Charles bridge, early evening, sun setting across the bridge, castle lighting up. I stand across from the bridge waiting for the light to change. Across from me two kids play soccer, the concrete outside the milk bar their field. They kick the ball back and forth until one of them dives to save the goal. I walk across the lights towards the bridge, as I pass them I smile at their guile and athleticism all the more so because there is no ball.
Missed photo 2. Tabor.
A cobbled stoned street outside a cafe. Mid afternoon, shadows of bikes. A couple stand talking to their friend the cafe owner. The guy is on the outside, the women on the inside. On the back of the womens bike there is a chair. It is occupied by a kid who would be two and a half at tops. The kid is reading the paper. He looks as if he's trying to figure the subtlties of string theory. Perplexed I watch for a couple of minutes before working past. As I do I cast a glance the kids' way... He's reading the cartoons.
Missed photo 3. The Lourve.
Under Delariox two kids sit with paper and crayons. A brother and sister of six and nine. The six year old has his back turned and is drawing pictures of cowboys and Indians. The cowboys are blowing off the Indians head. The girl is drawing the picture. The flag is at half mast purple and a green.
An art idea.
Naomi told us this story one day over the dinner table at CESTA in Tabor. The story goes as follows, a video artist from Canada got given a grant for a project from the Canadian Arts Council. The idea he had was to travel around the world as an expat Canadain filming all the locations he visited and then making a short doco about that. Well so that was the idea he told the Arts Council and that was the idea the Arts Council funded; in reality his idea was much much different. In reality he travelled around the world filming people waiting for aereoplanes clandestinely. This he did by using a hidden camera in his bag. He would film people sleeping in lounges, feet walking past, conversation between stranded passengers and lost travellers, yawning faces, tired faces, happy faces, laughing faces. This he did for six months without never once leaving the confines of an airport. (His methodology was land in one city, pay for the cheapest flight on standby then wait in the airport til that plane left repeating this at each subsequent airport.) when he finally arived back at Toronto airport the Canadian custom officers took him aside and questioned him in the deportation lounge for two days wondering where he had disappeared to. For the first day he refused to tell them what he had been doing, by the second day he changed tactics and decided that it was best if he told them what he had been doing and so he did. It was only after the Canadian custom officers saw the video footage that they believed him and let him go. That video footage has since been shown in the Guggenheim museum in New York and from Naomi's account has some of the most beautiful slow images in the world.
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