Kath! You rule! Thanks for posting this. I loved this quote and explanation from one of the participants - eloquent, beautiful:
"Descriptions of rain are usually about how people run for shelter, leave what they are doing. But what I was seeing was something different. I thought a photo may not capture this difference. I wanted to see if I could make a video resonate with what I was thinking. I looked through the screen and started recording. Someone held an umbrella, another had covered himself with a plastic sheet. Someone was returning from work, a scarf thrown over his head. People were not running around. Some were buying vegetables for home. And there was a chowmein stall - It was open to the sky. The man was busy frying chowmien in the pan. I thought a photograph would not have helped me capture this style, the special music... Along with the raindrops was the sound "chhan-chhan-chhan", as the stirrer moved in the pan, while everyone stood around under their umbrellas, waiting to eat. ------- On 13-Jun-08, at 7:35 AM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: Descriptions of rain are usually about how people run for shelter, leave what they are doing, But what I was seeing was something different. I thought a photo may not capture this difference. I wanted to see if I could make a video resonate with what I was thinking. I looked through the screen and started recording. Someone held an umbrella, another had covered himself with a plastic sheet. Someone was returning from work, a scarf thrown over his head. People were not running around. Some were buying vegetables for home. And there was a chowmein stall - It was open to the sky. The man was busy frying chowmien in the pan. I thought a photograph would not have helped me capture this style, the special music... Along with the raindrops was the sound "chhan-chhan-chhan", as the stirrer moved in the pan, while everyone stood around under their umbrellas, waiting to eat. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
