She kept at me to take her photograph but I didn’t want to because with the pot on her head I thought she looked ridiculous and I didn’t think she would appreciate me making a semi permanent record of her ridiculous moment. But she kept at me. So I went at it. It was like high fashion in the tent city–a serious tent city, by the way. Heavy duty military stuff with U.S. painted on it with some other country’s flag painted over the black block U and S. Hah. She posed and I shot. Then this girl hopped behind her to see what it was like looking into the lens. The woman never revealed much and I began to wonder if she was unhinged. Then she laughed and said something and everyone laughed and Neal told me she was just being silly. I saw so much humor last week. Once there was a food truck came by where Neal and I were photographing and when they began to throw food off the truck into the crowd where people were lined up for a hot meal the people erupted and spilled into the street and climbed the moving truck and it looked like mayhem and I wondered if someone would be killed or if the truck would overturn. Everyone looked so violent and angry. Then the truck was gone and everyone turned and sprinted back to their places in line… laughing and giggling. I had to wonder if CNN were here would they have edited out the last part of this episode, the giggling. Even a chase for food was funny for my friends waiting in line for a hot meal. Sometimes its just funny. Not everything is so heavy and serious, even when it is.
Uploaded by: flip holsinger on 7th March, 2010.