T.O. A-Z | One Man's Trash

Heading off to the grocery store I couldn’t find a quarter anywhere. A couple of useless nickels were all I could find, certainly not big enough to unlock a cart, and definitely not enough to do the awkward-coins-for-cart-exchange.

Luckily for me I saw a few stray carts in the parking lot. I grabbed my grocery list, shopping baskets and ran over. Shoot, as I got closer I noticed that two of the carts were connected, but one was free.

Flyers lined the inside of the cart, and it was missing a handle, but it was free. Grabbing the flyers with one hand I formed a huge ball. Rather than tossing the papers into the garbage I shot a three-pointer into an abandoned cart housing a huge garbage bag.

“Hey lady”, a man smiled at me, “You think that’s garbage? That’s not garbage, it’s my stuff!” I returned the smile, retrieved the un-crumpled paper, and it was then that I saw a small cardboard box filled with groceries proudly perched on top of the garbage bag.

VIDEO, THE ROOTS, DEAR GOD 2.0 FT. MONSTERS OF FOLK

Camera Practice | Captured Beauty

Just this morning I saw a beautiful lady with a full head of rollers in her hair driving a rusty old car. It was the perfect image. The pink and blue cylinders royally crowned her head, and were tightly set upon her midnight black hair.

It’s moments like these that make me want to carry my camera EVERYWHERE I go. That’s it! From now on I’m keeping my camera beside me at all times. And hopefully, if I’m fast enough, I’ll capture these rare moments of humbled, underappreciated beauty.

VIDEO, AMY WINEHOUSE, VALERIE