I See Durham

Director Jason Ho shot this out of my mom’s station wagon while we drove around Durham looking for things to put in a very weird rap video.

Jason Ho (twitter: @dreamnineteen ) and I collaborate quite a bit, and more of his work can be seen on his blog: dreamnineteen.posterous.com He’s a directing/editing/color-correcting machine.

For the past week or so, I’ve been shooting some still of Toon ( @4Toon ) as he does events and hangs around the Durham scene.

BONUS 1:

Here’s the behind the scenes from the vid, full of goofiness from around town:

BONUS 2: 

Me Shooting Jason Ho shooting Sarah Kaboom… in a Durham laundromat.

And the Durham is good.

But what really got me about the  Tour De Fat was the pandemonium in the Crazy Cycle Circle…

Wait, no, really!

I took a picture with my little cameraphone and everything:

What’s that you say? You think maybe the man is merely an employee, cleaning the water with a net to keep it looking right?

Perhaps. BUT PERHAPS NOT.

Besame Mucho seems to be on heavy rotation on the piped outdoor music at American Tobacco.

2 Possible Explanations:

1) They play it a lot because it is a great song.

2) Somewhere, hidden deep in the Lucky Strike water tower, the American Tobacco Campus DJ toils in song selection. She is beautiful and charming, with a profound and insatiable love of terrible drawings. From great heights she sees me, sitting far below with my pen and notebook, mooching free workspace off of the outdoor seating near Saladelia cafe. She has fallen in love with me, and has one simple request. Which she conveys via song. Repeatedly.

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I mean, it’s definitely one of those. Possibly both.

Durham Skate Park in the blazing sun.

Much thanks to Javi, Casey, Jordan, Saviour, and all the others who let me shoot out there. I’ll be back soon to shoot more.

On Saturday night, at the McDonalds on W. Morgan. And the high schoolers were right, our car sliding forward was just enough to tip the sensor and let them walk an order through the drive-thru.

(My roommate points out that my cursive is illegible. The girl is saying, “Can you drive closer? For the sensor?” Dang that antiquated Modern Cursive.)

And they were friendly. And they run the Uke Jam every first and third Monday at High Strung Violins & Guitars on Broad Street.

And the winner of the pageant? “Fur Pelton John,” who was kind enough to pause for photos.

Sometimes, the camera beats the pen.

At Northgate Mall. They have a Bouncy Thing.

Alas, in truth, it was without ninjas. I cannot tell a lie.