Thursday, May 31, 2007

Some city


Summer has come to Vancouver, and the city is coming alive.
The cherry blossoms have burst into blooms of pink fire all over the city. And other flowers are blooming, like the red ones that sprouted on a bush outside my house.
And people are coming alive too. the streets fill up whenever the sun is out. Every day it seems like a hear a new language on the sidewalks, one that I've never heard before. The people here are from everywhere. Europe, China, the Phillipines, India, everywhere.
There is a man that sings opera as he walks down the sidewalk. I passed close by him for the first time today and I could actually feel the sound of his voice. Vibrations. Frequencies. I felt it 3 times as I passed, the vibrato from his voice. One was like a drumbeat, the other like a guitar or violin string, beneath your finger, the third was higher than that... like that sensation you get when the hair stands up on the back of your neck and your skin tingles. I'd like to sing like that someday, although I don't know if I have the pipes.
Anyway, I've drawn the assignment of making the class poster. I've decided to go with a disco theme. The plan is to get everybody's character into the scene, but here's a sneak peek of the set I made with only my Brazilian friend Norman's character in the shot.