HIGH SCHOOL RESHOOT

 

NEW AND IMPROVED

I went to Shopper's this evening to get new scrubby things with which to wash dishes (found out they are called scouring pads) and then I walked up an down the aisles taking pictures of any product that said it was "NEW AND IMPROVED". I threw them all together in Photoshop and then blurred the pants off of them because they all looked gross. The result is Photo #1. I naively thought I might be able to reverse the blurring process by sharpening everything to the same degree. This didn't work - Photo #2 ensued. I like it because it reminds of an airport luggage scanner.

Photo #1

Photo #2

Theme #3 Cosmos Paige Lindsay

And I think it's gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I'm a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone

Second go-around at Family

High School

That's a high school in the background and I walk by it when I take the boys to daycare in the morning or take their baby brother for a stroll through the park. Based on my observations (which are not thorough or necessarily accurate) the kids that attend this school enjoy cursing at each other from opposite sides of the street and smoking while drinking beer in the park before/after class. At first I thought I was being overly sensitive their behaviour because I was with small children and didn't want to have to field questions like "What does 'F*&k off and die you $#@*$!  #*!¡-$*($^%' mean, Paige?" and "Why does it smell like skunks?" but I have now been past there a few times on my own and still feel slightly intimidated.

I realize that I am not a 9 year old boy and that there are scarier things in the world than teenagers (although that last statement might be debatable) I choose this shot because the posture of the young boy in the image mirrors the same trepidation that I feel when I walk past the school. He was there with his family and their dog but stood apart from them for a while to stare at the utilitarian building. Was he thinking of what awaits him after he leaves elementary school behind? Was he looking forward to it? Dreading it? Or was he staring off into the distance daydreaming about Beyblades and farts totally unaware of the school and its connotations. We'll never know.

All that being said:
IT'S OUT OF FOCUS AND I NEED TO RESHOOT

Thanks,
Paige

The Stuarts: A Family

Sardinha: KING OF BBQ CHICKEN

I took this photograph at a little place called Sardinha's near where I live. I walk past it every day to and from the subway but went in for the first time last night to take this picture...And to eat some BBQ chicken. Where I'm from there isn't much variety when it comes to fast food- Ali Baba's is the name of a pizza joint and the first and only shawarma place opened a year ago. I've loved looking at (if not eating) all the different types of food that is available in a city of 4 million.