Wow, 2 entries in a week; I’m on fire! So I was off to Victory Square for the Remembrance Day service on Saturday. It think it’s important to remember the sacrifices that were made so that we can devote our time to the latest game system releases and celebrity bullshit. It’s also nice as for those few hours, regular humans take back that area of Vancouver. You can wander freely and feel safe. Well, sort of safe; it’s relative of course. You’ll still get asked for change, smokes and bus passes but that happens everywhere…
I was taking some pics of the crowds and decided to skoot down this alley that I avoided on my last trip down there. It was too populated with sketchy folks so I decided against going down there but it was pretty empty this time.
As I’m crossing the street with my camera in my hand, a ’street person’ walks through my field of vision and snarls “take a fuckin’ picture, it’ll last longer!” OK. *snap* Too bad it was totally blurry or I’d post it. I wander down the alley taking a few shots and then walk back up the Hastings where another ‘local’ starts yelling at me to take pics of “all these buildings and the absentee landlords” What do you think I’m doing?
Today, I was asked twice, if I wanted to buy drugs. Once on Granville during my Spanky break and then in front of the Art Gallery on my way home. I recognize the Granville guy and I just shook my head and said “no thanks man…” I followed that up by ignoring his pleas for change as I had my ear buds in and that gives my license to ignore select, other humans. The art gallery guy got a snarky “do I look 16?” response for his trouble. I never have fire extinguisher handy when I need one…
In lighter news, I got an email today from a Webzine (or something) asking if they could use my Remembrance Day pictures for an article. “Um, sure. Thanks for asking…”
In July, a local city guide asked if they could use one of my Art Gallery shots in their guide. I haven’t seen it yet as they didn’t have a Mac version of the guide.
It’s all sort of flattering given that my camera is kinda crappy and I have little to no idea of what I’m doing.
Very good. See you in December…
