1 post tagged “people”

There is a brilliant probably partially homeless, possibly (B says probably) schizophrenic man who hangs out nearly everyday at the bread shop or the coffee shop in our neighborhood. He reads the paper or a magazine and openly discusses what he's read with himself. We figured out he was brilliant when he was discussing an article debating how private an elected official's private life can and should be. His analysis of the article and his arguing both pro and con was genius. Yesterday I walked to the bread store for a new loaf of golden wheat and a great cup of coffee. As I was leaving Mr. Brilliant was looking at a fashion magazine. He'd not made it to any of the articles. He was still in the ads that clutter the front of the book. For each ad he would look critically not only at the ad in general but also the photography in the ads. He would dissect the direction, quality and quantity of the light to determine how it was shot and lit and how much was done in Photoshop. Like his elected official thoughts his analysis of fashion ads was brilliant. I could only stand and listen to him for a few minutes, he doesn't like people to look at him or hang around too long unless they've got a purpose (you know eating your bagel at the bench or something) so after hearing him debate how possible it was to recreate foggy light in Photoshop and how realistic that re-creation would be I headed home.