13 March 2019 – All very urban. I come reeling out of Ruben Brandt, Collector, a VIFF mid-day showing, and decide I need to walk it off. The visuals of this animated feature film are brilliant — and hallucinatory.
So there I am, walking into the downtown east end, my eye sharpened to see things slightly beyond reality.
And I am rewarded.
A man dancing with a respectable office tower wall …
ferns fluttering coy eyelashes on an unrespectable (but very tactile) parking lot wall …
and a serpent winding his tail around defenceless street-corner chairs in Chinatown.
I am even rewarded with a passing snippet of Did-I-Really-Hear-That sidewalk conversation.
Young man: “So some domestic ones escaped, and they’re gettin’ together with wild ones, and now they’re progenating like crazy.” Impressed girl-friend: “Oh, wow!”
Progenating? I begin an automatic tut-tut and then stop myself. Slightly to my horror, I realize I like it. Maybe I’m just admiring that he knows the word “progeny” and feels free to lay hands on it.
Just like that serpent having its way with those street-corner chairs.
Lynette d'Arty-Cross
/ 13 March 2019Wonderful connections – delightful to follow. 🙂
Rio
/ 14 March 2019Language eh? If it weren’t for spell check it would be Shakespearing all over the place!
icelandpenny
/ 16 March 2019Ya gotta love “progenating”…
bluebrightly
/ 17 March 2019Fabulous! That first photo is excellent, and what a nice contrast with the second, the third has an odd way of tying it all together. The conversation snippet – wow! Good ears! (We know your eyes and mind are good….). Progenating, is that like progenation? Is that a place? Etc!! 🙂 Thanks Penny!
icelandpenny
/ 21 March 2019a girl just likes to have fun…