Coffee Table Declarations
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
My brother has moved to California to pursue further art school degrees. He packed all his stuff into his truck and drove off across the country to start a whole new life. I am often amazed that we grew up in the same house with the same parents and everything. This is my little brother, the kid who used to follow me around and draw pictures of little rocket ships that were square shaped with squiggly lines at the bottom. Suddenly he's this talented artist with a mind of his own and he's funny - laugh out loud funny. Flying doesn't bother him and neither does being 3000 miles away from home.
But this post is not about my brother. It's about how I was sifting through his huge collection of pictures from his road trip, and I had a crazy idea. There were many pictures of the road winding through mountains and passing open plains and whatnot, and you can really get a sense of different areas of the country based on the scenery from the road.
So here's my wacky thought. Wouldn't it be a neat project if someone were to drive across country starting in say, Boston, and ending up somewhere in California, and as they drove, what if they stopped every five miles and got out of the car and took a picture of the road ahead? Then after the trip was over (6 or so years later because that's probably how long it would take if you stopped every five miles to take a picture), the person could compile all the pictures together into some sort of Powerpoint slideshow and then the person who was watching it would feel like they had driven across the country themselves without ever leaving the comfort of their own living room.
Sure, there are logistical problems to this idea - the time it would take to make the project as well as the time it would take just to watch it, but it's definately the sort of thing that someone might actually do sometime and win an award at some obscure film festival. Wait and see - and remember you read it here first. See? I may not be hysterically funny or have enough moxy to move across the country on a whim, but by gosh I am full of crazy ideas.
But this post is not about my brother. It's about how I was sifting through his huge collection of pictures from his road trip, and I had a crazy idea. There were many pictures of the road winding through mountains and passing open plains and whatnot, and you can really get a sense of different areas of the country based on the scenery from the road.
So here's my wacky thought. Wouldn't it be a neat project if someone were to drive across country starting in say, Boston, and ending up somewhere in California, and as they drove, what if they stopped every five miles and got out of the car and took a picture of the road ahead? Then after the trip was over (6 or so years later because that's probably how long it would take if you stopped every five miles to take a picture), the person could compile all the pictures together into some sort of Powerpoint slideshow and then the person who was watching it would feel like they had driven across the country themselves without ever leaving the comfort of their own living room.
Sure, there are logistical problems to this idea - the time it would take to make the project as well as the time it would take just to watch it, but it's definately the sort of thing that someone might actually do sometime and win an award at some obscure film festival. Wait and see - and remember you read it here first. See? I may not be hysterically funny or have enough moxy to move across the country on a whim, but by gosh I am full of crazy ideas.
