Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Mi Haiku

Exploring outside will be essential for this project. The notoriously dismal weather of Seattle will be perfect for a dreary poem.
The spontaneity of this project will be really, really fun to explore with. I think it's all about going out and finding a perfect moment to film, and I have some ideas about what to search for.
When reading some of the haikus, I gained strong recollections of moments when I would just stop and tilt my head for a second, thinking, "huh." Just really admiring the affectionately ironic parts of life, or a sudden recognition of beauty in an ordinary moment.
I like the idea of a spiderweb that appears in a corner eave one day, in all of its complexity and obvious time-consuming effort, and then getting destroyed by something in a second (perhaps by my stick):




spiderweb all night to make
a second and
it's torn by my stick



and another on an incessant dripping from a leaky faucet - how lazy we can be when all it would take was a minute's time to fix





drip drip of the sink
one turn of the wrench
it'd be fixed

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