Axiom & Camera
Posted on 12 September 2009
Axiom
A rhyme
a day keeps
the monster away.
Camera
So you step off your metal steed all salt and pepper beard and panavision confident, gentle banners flying.
You woulda been at home at some round table in the 14th century, a side kick to kings
with an eye 4 the daughters (but subtle about it, guarded, a chivalrous hand) searching for the holy grail of horizontal and vertical: the perfect tilt to catch
a face, fingertips, a sigh. Fleets of shining armies
have swept across the arid plains again and again and you have often been there to capture it because
because (as many of us know) beauty knows no pain, in fact sometimes it conquers it.
1 Response to Axiom & Camera
You mentioned once before that one of the reasons you enjoy going ‘on tour’ with your camera is that it gifts you the chance to speak to people you normally wouldn’t. They are the people you walk by and don’t make eye contact with. Here, you ask again ‘”what’s the point? Why am I doing this?” Perhaps for the same reason as mentioned before? I doubt very much that these videos are cries for help or attention, but one thing the internet does gift you, much like your camera (or, perhaps, in addition to?) is also the opportunity to speak to people you normally would not. I, too, might be the person you would normally walk by in the street, but these videos allow me to say Hi.