In the movie American Beauty Jane and Ricky bond over camcorder footage of a plastic bag “dancing” in the wind, which Ricky considers the most beautiful thing he has ever recorded.
Yesterday I saw this newspaper blown by the wind, picked up and flying at Dolores Park in San Francisco. I made some shots of the newspaper flying in the air, blown by the wind, thinking about putting these together in a short movie.
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Date: May 8 2008
Makes me remember the scene from American Beauty…
I was writing “a gust of wind set a newspaper flying…” in a poem, when I saw this movie.