Joearf’s Thoughts

Tag: wasted time

  • Productive Waste of Time

    Productive Waste of Time

    Yesterday I used my lunch hour to go to the local Barnes and Noble bookstore to get the latest issue of i-D Magazine. Turns out they didn’t have it. It’s an import from the UK and they are still one and a half issues behind on the magazine racks here (another issue is due out soon).

    I was disappointed that I had wasted my time on the short drive, made long because of the traffic. But was it a complete waste?

    As usual, I had one of my cameras with me. I took some meh shots walking through the bookstore …

    Looking out the window by the magazine racks
    Descending the escalator to the lower level
    Another shot looking out the window by the magazine racks
    A selection of magazines (why is short American Short Fiction on the upper shelf where short people would find it hard to reach?)

    … but, going back back outside through an entrance I rarely use, the area looked slightly different than I remembered. I thought I’d try doing one of the ten exercises I started writing about a year or more ago. I would stand in the same spot, moving my feet only to turn a bit, and take a series of pictures.

    Here, now, I shall impose the results upon you.

    They’re just moving furniture into this restaurant. One of two places that are ‘opening soon’
    Don’t know what either Plans A or B were, but neither proved to be successful. The sign out front advertises the ‘coming soon’ of a comedy club. The weather’s been dismal and I look forward to a few laughs.
    This was the something-or-other building on Tresser Boulevard. Now it’s the something-or-other-else building. Companies come and go taking their names with them; buildings stay until they start to crumble and are torn down – hopefully before falling on someone.
    #1 Those eyes! A mural created by Sen2 (Santo) Figuero [@sen2figueroa on Instagram
    #2 Same position as #1 – different focus
    #3 A little bit lower now.
    #4 And a little bit lower now.
    #5 A little bit higher now.

    All shot with the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II on aperture mode with LUMIX II Aspherical 20mm f/1.7 lens