Object Annotation by Minches
February 20th, 2008 6:56 PMRandom Woman I walked by earlier today with the crazy hat "I love your confidence and audacity, that you walk around town in a bright pink fedora. I would like to buy you a peacock feather for your hat. Would you wear it? Would you understand my offer was a refelction of my attraction to, and comerodery with, your fire, or would you think I was odd. I will walk by beleiving that you would accept my feather with a smile, attaching it to your hat as you walk away."
This is how this idea as infultrated my day, and I think it is fantastic.
I have multiple ideas running through my head of how to complete this; one of which includes traveling back home to Austin, luckily as fate would have it, I am doing just that this weekend.
During my lunch break at work today, I walked around Yerba Buena Gardens to shoot a photogrpahy asignment and ended up being spontaneously inspired to leave a note behind.
I hit up my original idea on my ride home from work.
My favorite idea will happen this weekend while I'm in Austin.
Can I update this after I've already submitted it? I guess I'll find out won't I.
Yay! For my first task being so much fun (and sort of fitting for my dorky personality)!
UPDATE: The Arboretum Cows in Austin Texas
Yerba Buena Gardens
Yerba Buena Gardens, There is no better place to escape from work on my lunch hour than your small green field where the sounds of the waterfall and birds can almost convince me that I am actually out in nature instead of trapped in the center of a city. I like to take off my shoes and walk slowly through your grass barefoot letting each tiny blade tickle my toes. I like to lay in the sun, back to the earth and close my eyes. I like to bring people here and share a small moment of peace with them and a small bit of my heart. I love the connection I feel to my home - to myself - simply from sitting still within your muddy green bowl. Thank you Yerba Buena Gardens. I heart You. Love Minch Niddle
Yerba Buena Gardens
See that small white blop south of the two gents, that's my letter :)
Yerba Buena Gardens
So I was sort of geeking out at seeing how far away I could get and still see my little love note.
The 38
The 38
My Dearest Muni 38, You are the simple pure highlight of my daily routine. Your sardine packed cars allow me that perfect balance of distance and human contact for my bairly awake mental state - allowing me a modicum of aloofness while still rubbing up against strangers. Also, when I am feeling low, there is nothing like a friendly bus driver who smiles and says hello as I climb on. You'll never know how much I love that bus driver at that moment. With greatest sincerity, 38, you allow my shy mouse-y voyeuristic tendencies a glorious playground for people watching. I would hug you if I weren't slightly concerned with all the people you've already been with - but that's ok. I can still love you, from my safe distance of silent traveler, watching wide eyed the world within your hull every Monday thru Friday. All the love and affection in my heart, Minch Niddle
The 38
I love the polite indifference of the bus.
Cows. Arboretum. Austin. Texas.
Oh Glorious Arboretum Cows! You ARE my childhood memories of Austin. Stopping by Amy's ice cream fr Mexican Vanilla and Strawberries, eating with the speed only a child can muster, then rushing to you, my cows, to climb and ride and slide. Even as I aged you stayed constant. I moved neighborhoods, cities, states. No matter where I went in the world you stayed here. Steady. When I got married you were there, sentinels to my vows. When I got divorced you did not waver, you did not judge, you stayed steadfast - the same companions from my childhood. Sometimes I wish your marble flesh would shift to warmth and fur and give under the strength of my hug. Sometimes I wish you could stick out your cow tongue and lick my face and I would laugh and throw my arms around your neck. Sometimes I wish I was a little girl again looking up into your face, towered over by your gentle presence. Minch Niddle
My A-Town friends reading my love note.
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You totally capture that feeling on the 38... I took it today for the first time in a couple of weeks...I've been taking the 31 and the 21 which somehow don't have the same feeling as the 30... the others feel so commuter, but the 38's always full... always ready for the sardine solidarity... looking out through arms and backpacks at the pretty girl with the strange and fascinating mouth there, the caricature ancient lady with patches on her sweatpants over there... you grabbed it perfectly.
Oh I agree! Nothing compares the to sardineiness of the 38. It's a voyeur's paradise!
My absolute favorite is when people return my smile. It happens very rarely. But occasionally it happens and I feel like I somehow won a victory for random connections.
Great pictures, this is pretty damn awesome.