THINGS WE SAW
Short stories in brief.
Salvaje gato piernas en el museo. .
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¡Baile en El Calle para una Feliz Año Nuevo de Ciudad Mexico!
It was the one moment where her face wasn't hidden behind her camera and I caught it... Then I spoke to her, pretending to know the art of John Baldessari. "I love the simplicity of his images. His use of black-and-white images with eye catching points of color. The humor in his work," I said. Then in very bad Spanish, I asked her out for a drink...she was American.
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She had never been in a hotel with this many floors. She had never been to Vegas. She had never been so far from home. She had never been to Thailand but with all the money she had saved, she was ready to board that oneway morning flight.
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Shoe shine on Paseo de la Reforma.
Mi día de fotografía callejera.
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"Parking lot -------" from the Hollywood Street Series #8 of 10. *
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"if the door man ever said anything above $5 or told us 'you can't wear those shoes in here' we'd just go out to our car, turn up the stereo speakers, open the trunk with two 12's in a carpet lined box, and play all the songs they were playing in the club from the time the club got out till the time everyone had some girl's number on a bar napkin, their forearm or the empty space on a club flier. There's a phrase for that but I can't remember what it was."
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"Man Outside of Jones" from the Hollywood Street Series #7 of 10. *
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On December 1, 1955, #RosaParks said no. They arrested her and it was only the beginning. Her single act of protest launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott and jumpstarted an unshakeable movement. Today, we celebrate and honor her sacrifice and the many other unsung heroes behind this movement. In February, TVOne will tell their stories. #BehindTheMovement #December1st. Click the link in our bio to meet the cast. @meta2meta@therealisaiahwashington @lodivadevine
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"Man with the Golden Voice" from the Hollywood Street Series #8 of 10. *
My friend Robbie came to El Compadre in Hollywood and proposed to his girlfriend tonight, the place they had gone on their first date and...I missed it. I went to the john leaving our friends behind at a giant row of tables, taking my time and on my way back I was shooting this video. As soon as I stopped recording, I heard the eruption from the back room. She had said yes...and I missed it. I blame this man and his enchanting voice for not filming the proposal like I told Robbie I would.
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"Man at the Bar" from the Hollywood Street Series #7 of 10. *
The outdoor bar was so slow that the largest tab belonged to the doorman. Pictured here.
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"Conversation with Pete Zwarksi (not sure of the spelling) aka Batman" from the Hollywood Street Series #6 of 10. *
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Pete-"I don't even like Batman."
Me-"The guy or playing him on Hollywood Blvd?"
Pete-"Playing him. I'd rather be Spiderman but there too man fucking Spiderguys out here. It's the easy costume. It's the newbie go to. It's just pajamas, man. Look at these assholes."
Me- "Are you drunk right now?"
Pete- "Am I acting drunk?"
Me- "Yeah a little bit."
Pete- "Fuck. Yeah I am." He pulls out a stick of gum from a little box clipped to his utility belt and pops it in his mouth then asks me, "You taking my picture? I gotta charge you for that."
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"Window-dressing" from the Hollywood Street Series #5 of 10. *
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"My Chat with Curtis" from the Hollywood Street Series #4 of 10. *
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"I kinda get tired of all the noise and all the talking most of the day but at night I miss it. Like at 4. I guess that's morning...but after all the club stuff stops. A little after then." He stops and bends down checking to see if a discarded cigarette butt has enough on it to save and smoke. "You know when like only a few people are out, walking home. Like drunk couples and chicks with their buddies. You can cross the street--hey!" He calls out to a smoker passing by. Asks for a cigarette and gets one. Lights it. Thanks the lady then back to me. "You can cross the street without waiting on the signal. Or I can...You know? That's when I love it out here but that's also when it's the saddest. I love it but it's sad." .
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"Polina Time". A photo from the Hollywood Street Series #3 of 10.
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Even in the sea of thousands that made Hollywood and Highland feel like LA's Version of Times Square, Polina could go hours without speaking to anyone. If she wasn't calling out to people, asking them to buy t-shirts, mugs and mini-Oscar statues only sometimes would people come by to browse, overturning and unfolding t-shirts, holding them up to their chest then putting them down so that she would have to refold again and again during the course of her sometimes 13 hour shift. If she wanted a smoke she'd step away and watch her kiosk from a far, rarely having to go back to secure a sale. But, if she wanted private time all she would have do is stop talking, stop asking and she would have it with families of tourist swarming around her, not looking her way. .
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"The Balloon Man". A photo from the Hollywood Street Series #2 of 10. .
Mr. Ricardo calls himself "Hollywood Blvd's Best Balloon Man" but he doesn't take requests.
Because Ricardo is "self trained", if you ask him to make you a balloon puppy or a balloon swan, he will hand you a balloon sword or a balloon flower. He says it's because he's an artist and you don't tell artist how to make their art. But, you get the sense that funny swords and flowers are all he knows how to make.
He told me that a couple years ago he did the math on all his bills and decided that instead of working in roofing, he would walk Hollywood Blvd everyday selling balloons until he made double what he had calculated his family's per day living expenses were. So everyday with the exception of Sunday, he starts at 7am twisting balloons at home. Sunday he starts at 11, promptly after church.
In the two years he's been making swords, he's made enough to provide for his family and saved enough for his twin granddaughters to attend Cal State LA next Fall. .
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Saturday Night Cab Driver 1 from the Hollywood Street Series #1 of 10. ** .
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Preet, whom some called Asham, would pick up riders at Hollywood and Highland because he preferred tourists to the Saturday night drunks further down the strip. He'd sit and watch the escalator leading up from the subway, hoping to make eye contact with someone looking for a ride that was either unfamiliar or didn't trust the Uber app. "Most people, they don't want to put in their information. With me it's 'where are you going' that's it. You don't download anything for a cab," he told me. "You just get in. It's not personal. It's not intrusive and because of that people tell me everything. They get in, we ride in quiet then they tell me everything. Either with their eyes or their mouths. In Hollywood sometimes it's both. Eyes say, 'I'm sad. I'm lonely' and mouth says, ' take me here. Yes, yes, I'm fine.' You get that a lot at night."
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Rose City.
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A protestor walks the beach on Sunday, megaphone slung under his arm as he shouts into a reciever condemning government leaders from across the polictical spectrum.
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...When I turned back, Lars had disappeared...
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Sometimes at night, Yusef would watch the trains until the police asked him to leave.
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