March 29, 2009

Repetitious Ride

I ride the bus. That’s no secret.

But secretly taking pictures of people on the bus is a secret.

About two years ago I had a car; and in a moment of brilliance Sarah thought to call it Nakita. And while Nakita got me around the south county’s delta, Mt. Burling-Wolley, it was a constant drain on my wallet; the radiator leaked into the passenger side, there was never any gas in it, and the alternator never worked right. When it finally broke down a hillside I started walking and never looked back.

So that’s was the story of Nakita. Since then I’ve got a handle on our local bus system or I get around by bike –currently nameless.

I’ve been eager to put my camera phone to good use, but the pictures are small and poor quality and can’t compare to an honest to goodness camera. Then one day I discovered it had multi-shot capabilities. I couldn’t imagine how to put it to good use and I took these haphazardly captured photos of the unsuspecting passengers. Then it occurred to me to throw them into Adobe and, presto, a gif animation.

(Camera Phone + Voyeurism)(Adobe)

I’ll definitely want to experiment more with this formula.

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