shreds
so...when i lived in nola...harris and i, on occasion, would grab our cameras and go shoot. we'd pick a theme and try and capture it, or look for inspiration in interesting places, etc...one night, after a few successful outings, we realized that our bar had been creeping steadily up and that we might not be happy unless something quite good resulted from this new photo session. so, we went and shot the best photos of our life. end of story. ok...kidding. we decided that for the night we would refuse to shoot anything that might be mistaken for good photography. we would shoot the dumbest shots we could come up with. see trashcan face (though someone has apparently mistaken it as an attempt at saying something deep). and you thought i was joking. it was great. all the pressure was off and we could have fun. i have a whole set of pictures that i absolutely love, and that no other person on the planet apart from harris, would even think twice about never looking at...ever. apart from thinking that, in retrospect, this was a brilliant idea, i am now wondering whether or not i can introduce it into other parts of my life. first test run starts in...now. i realize that i kind of did this experiment to the blog last year when i posted a ridiculous picture of a joke written on what was probably a bathroom stall wall...but every once in a while we need a little something ridiculous in our life to remind us that it's not always that serious...and that sometimes toilet humor really is that funny. last time i reverted to the brain of a 12 year old and laughed till my stomach hurt. this time it was about the same. i now proudly present SHREDS...ok brief preface: someone dubbed over bands...ok thats all you get. i couldn't decide between the creed one and the eric clapton one but in the end i decided making a sucky band sound really bad beats making someone with actually musical ability sound bad...but go to town if you think it's as funny as i did...there are plenty more to watch:
Posted in: on Saturday, February 07, 2009 at at 11:09 PM
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I just laughed until tears came. Thanks. I needed that.
To be fair, you are always good at having fun doing anything from the mundane to the sublime to the... well... ridiculous. But adding absolute silly to each day? Rockin. I do it myself. love the video. miss your face.... even in a trashcan.