TVO lands on my head.
Saturday, April 4th, 2009Last week I posted this video on my facebook page:
Since then Ive watched it too many times. Today I popped it up again and quite randomly found the guy in purple hanging loose right as the plane got airborne oddly familiar. Turns out that I was out on the playa that afternoon taking pictures of peeps for a coffee table book project Im working on and purple hang loose guy landed right in front of me.
Tom was from Rotterdam, if memory serves correct. Im pretty sure he’s officially the first Dutch guy I had ever met at Burning Man.
As we chatted, pooh bear appointed David showed up in an art car and stopped to offer Tom a ride either back to his camp or possibly just around…
Before long, cruising in an art car got to be way cooler than standing in front of my summicron and they were both gone, just as fast as they showed up, one from the sky, one from the department of mutant vehicles, with just a few frames to document the moment.
A moment all but forgotten about until I started watching videos of people jumping out of planes. Ive shot about 500 people on two continents for this project so far and this serves as the first time I have randomly recognized a stranger I shot out there in the ether. Color me pleased with being able to offer everyone an epilogue to the youtube clip.