Dogwater Soup

Alec and I have been joking around lately that common sense is so rare these days that it’s become a superpower.

Today I witnessed one of the most ridiculous lacks of said sense.

I decided to take a little road trip up the sea to sky highway and see what I could find for photo opportunities. As soon as I passed the 5 lane clusterfuck that is known as the Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal I soon realized that I was in for a lot of road construction as BC tries to prepare for the wonderful Olympics.

Basically 2/3rds of the highway is under construction so traffic is down to one 50 kmh lane most of the way. Not a big deal for me today as I wasn’t in a hurry.

So anyway, there’s a bunch of people all lined up, weaving and snaking through a slow construction zone. As we come out of the construction and the road opens up to two lanes everyone picks up speed and people are passing etc etc. I’m picking up speed but not passing so I stay in the right lane. We all no sooner get up to our regular traveling speeds when we enter a BLIND two lane corner. Well as I come around the corner to my utter astonishment there is some fucking MORON in a red Toyota Yaris stopped dead halfway in the right lane and half on the narrow shoulder. They’re literally straddling the white shoulder line, passenger door is open and some knob is out pissing, puking, traking a picture …I don’t know. I was too busy trying to avoid a fucking collision to notice exactly what the fuck they were doing.

So what part of the brain looks at this situation and thinks, yeah, I know people are anxious to get going, coming out of a construction zone, two lanes of highspeed traffic on one of the most dangerous pieces of highway in the province but “fuck it” lets stop here on the side of a blind corner with half my car in the lane while my idiot fuckwad friend gets out to do whatever it was he was doing??

If I had more time to think while avoiding a rear-end collision with your moron-mobile, sending it slamming into the rock face I would have pulled over, walked back and punched the driver square in the fucking face. Use your fucking brain or stay home.

Back to your regular scheduled PG programming.

Every since I saw the movie of the same name starring Val Kilmer I’ve been drawn to find out more and eventually photograph this desolate forgotten place. At the end of the movie Val’s character throws a trumpet into a body of water with a tree sticking out of it. I have found those trees and many other beautifully depressing things to photograph. I spent the 22nd of March here, and since I’ve been home I want to go back and spend more time and longer hours waiting for the perfect light in which to capture this place once again.

I have seen the documentary “Plagues and Pleasures”, I have visited the Sonny Bono Wildlife Refuge and viewed many online resources and other peoples photography of the sea. It is one of those things that will not be there forever. It will change, either by time erroding what’s left into the earth or by the revitalization of the sea changing the now abandoned landscape into a desireable place to populate. What was once on the road to becoming the next Palm Springs is currently nothing more than a salty putrid body of water rimmed by dead fish. Some say polluted, some say “just salty”. I guess time will tell, one way or another.

Here is what I saw in the form of my photography:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/waynerd/sets/72157604565574898/

Here is the site for the documentary:
http://www.saltonseadoc.com

Here is the Sonny Bono Refuge site:
http://www.fws.gov/pacific/refuges/field/CA_sbono.htm

for people that have none.

So I’m at the Vancouver International Auto Show, there’s cars and trucks everywhere and tons of people. Fair enough, they’re not all bad but here’s a few instances where there should simply be a moron policing system that simply extracates some of them from the planet.

I enter the main area and find the 2009 Dodge Challenger, I’ve been drooling about this car since it was announced. As I’m taking some pics I see out of the corner of my eye some idiot standing on the back of another car, on the painted bumper of a brand new car to take a photo of the Challenger. As the poor car dealer person asks him nicely to get down the idiot gives him attitude like there’s nothing wrong with standing on someone elses new car. What the Fuck?

A few minutes later some “parent” (using the term loosely) allowed his 5 year old to climb up the front hood of a sports car on display. Excuse me, are you high? If you can’t control your spawn leave them at home with granny.
There were literally kids running around climbing in and on cars like it was the ball room at fuckin McDonalds. No wonder a lot of kids are useless fuck-ups these days if that’s the extent of the discipline they’re getting.

…and I don’t know what it is with me but it seems whenever I’m carrying my camera people walking toward me will look right at me, make eye contact then proceed to walk right into me. I don’t get it. If I don’t make some evasive manouvers they’re hitting me and my gear. If I ever become that stupid, ignorant or comatose that I can’t even respect other peoples space/belongs/rights etc,…just shoot me in the back of the head.

There’s my rant for the day, please proceed with your day.