Experiment: #34008 accomplished.
This was an agonizing 20 minute walk. Agonizing because most film makers have something to say. Despite the knot in my stomach, the "Why's" in my head I stuttered the mumblings, and by the end of the walk something unfolded.
Quietly walking the trail.
"Meet me at this point." I say, focused in on a small summit on the path. PAUSE desperate, I did not know which way to push my story, and then the tiniest thing in the world happened, I couldn't get there. REC "I can't meet you there now, because I don't want to frighten this rabbit." There at my angle, 15 feet away from my destination, I stood pointing. "I know this means nothing, but I can't bear to scare her away, let's sit and watch the clouds instead." Moments pass I hear the rabbit in the scrub, we continue. I stop at the rabbit's tracks. This seems like a good beginning. Let's go back. This experiment turned out to be much larger than I imagined. "Try watching your hands for 10 minutes, it's exhausting." I anticipate the journeyman's tale.
Monday, September 03, 2001
at 5:29 PM