People ask me, they say: "Hey East Village Today, what's it like to walk through the East Village upside down, looking backwards, and wagging your head from side to side?"
Well, I think it probably looks something like this:
This might not be a real hodgepodge video, but it's close!
Since I've been shooting videos for this blog, instead of still pictures, and since I don't always know what to shoot when I'm out, resulting in my shooting things I have no idea what to do with, subsequently resulting in my having a bunch of unused videos at the end of the week, I decided to start stringing these videos together, in a weekly feature I will call: Hodgepodge!*
Of course, now that I know I'll be doing this, I'll probably start shooting videos with the intention of mixing them into a hodgepodge, with the likely result that they will change somehow — at very least, they'll be self-conscious, or reflect my self-consciousness.
Nothing can ever just be itself… in the East Village Today!
So with no further ado, here is Hodgepodge No. 1 (or No. 2, depending on how you look at it):
* My first hodgepodge video was called Saturday Afternoon, before I had the idea to formalize the idea.
Sometimes, there is just too much going on in the East Village to cover with a series of ten-second videos. It would be — what? — a hundred seconds, at least! The amount of work would be overwhelming!
The answer is to link them all together!
Behold:
East Villagers love to laugh!
(The name of the video comes from a snippet of a conversation that was recorded while shooting.)