self portrait while driving in biel- not happy
shots from downtown biel- where there was some kind of christmas marketafter my GOOD morning, my trip to biel this afternoon was a bust. the traffic was horrible and people were driving like maniacs- and were rude!- on my ass 1/2 the time, or honking, or zipping around me like idiots. there was also no parking, as it is the day before the "3 holy days of christmas" when everything around here shuts down completely. there would be riots in america if everything closed for 3 days!
i finally found a parking place, which i don't think was legal, but other cars were parked there. i was paranoid about parking there but did anyway, and walked to the HIOB. 3 drunks were standing around a garbage can, smoking, babbling incoherently, slugging liquor from the bottle. i wanted to photograph them, but was afraid they might get aggressive. when i went to the stairs that leads down to the shop, it looked like they'd been pissing in the stairwell.
the whole city was like a circus- i saw tons of cripples and crazies- people whizzing by on hover-rounds and electric wheelchairs, old women rambling along talking to themselves [or was it blue-tooth?] drunks, stoners, weird characters, etc. too bad i was too stressed from traffic and parking to walk around and shoot stuff, bcause it was all SO george grosz!
there were no cameras or lenses- only 2 polaroids [i have about 10 already!] and an old point & shoot. i did see another autoharp looking thing... in better condition...but for about 300 chf! so... the trip was absolutely NOT worth the aggravation.
i'd planned to take some of my film cameras and walk around shooting, finishing off rolls of film i left here; but decided at the last minute not to. didn't feel like hauling the heavy metal cameras around. good thing, too... because i did not hang out long, nor did i want to. the energy was too chaotic, stressy and nervous; really bad vibes. merry christmas, indeed!
i finally found a parking place, which i don't think was legal, but other cars were parked there. i was paranoid about parking there but did anyway, and walked to the HIOB. 3 drunks were standing around a garbage can, smoking, babbling incoherently, slugging liquor from the bottle. i wanted to photograph them, but was afraid they might get aggressive. when i went to the stairs that leads down to the shop, it looked like they'd been pissing in the stairwell.
the whole city was like a circus- i saw tons of cripples and crazies- people whizzing by on hover-rounds and electric wheelchairs, old women rambling along talking to themselves [or was it blue-tooth?] drunks, stoners, weird characters, etc. too bad i was too stressed from traffic and parking to walk around and shoot stuff, bcause it was all SO george grosz!
there were no cameras or lenses- only 2 polaroids [i have about 10 already!] and an old point & shoot. i did see another autoharp looking thing... in better condition...but for about 300 chf! so... the trip was absolutely NOT worth the aggravation.
i'd planned to take some of my film cameras and walk around shooting, finishing off rolls of film i left here; but decided at the last minute not to. didn't feel like hauling the heavy metal cameras around. good thing, too... because i did not hang out long, nor did i want to. the energy was too chaotic, stressy and nervous; really bad vibes. merry christmas, indeed!
