Hodgepodge.

Working a job that keeps odd hours catches up with you eventually.  The last two weeks have been hectic and exciting, though, and have kicked summer off to an energetic start.  I worked as a DP on a Minneapolis 48 Hour Film Fest project called "Driven Together: The Ezra and Ida Story", the trailer for which can be viewed here:

http://vimeo.com/24984062

I'm not entirely certain what the story is or how it all fit together as I wasn't in on the final draft of the script, but what I saw while filming seemed pretty funny.  Friday I was a DP on another video, this time what I believe will be strictly an online commercial for a new mixing board (for dj's).  I'm not sure when it'll be available online, that all depends on when the director finishes editing back in Miami.

Tomorrow it's back to the grind, in a way, a grind I haven't been to in years.  But it'll be great to have the change of pace for a time.  I've been exercising my greatest skills lately, procrastination and over-thinking, with an application I need to finish soon.  I don't have any projects planned for this week so it'll be a great time to finish that once and for all.

Lastly, does anyone have any good book recommendations?  I've started several and haven't been able to find anything that keeps my interest.  

Braille on bathrooms?

Today at work I had the time to consider something that has long vexed me, and what is surely one of the most profoundly idiotic of all human (attempts at an) accommodation: Braille on bathroom doors.  What does this small gesture signify about us as a species?  Do we believe that if a blind person walks into an establishment the sighted would quickly shush themselves and stare, covering their mouths to silence the giggles as this person called out in vain?  And then, after minutes or, God forbid, hours, of desperate tactile searching the poor individual’s seemingly hopeless scouring of the wall would at long last yield the raised symbols of salvation?  What other possible explanation for this bizarre phenomena could there be?  Another potential scenario: perhaps the blind person carries out his/her intended business and then asks for directions to the bathroom.  Does the employee then respond with, “poke around, you’ll find it.  It’s marked.”  Perhaps it’s merely an arrogant reminder to those of us blessed with sight that we do not need help finding the bathroom.  And why isn’t anything else labeled?  Is the bathroom some kind of blind person’s compass rose from which they are expected to orient themselves around the building?  “Let’s see, if the bathroom is there, then the ice cream must be…”  Nowhere near the bathroom, that’s where the fuck the ice cream is, and you deserve better than that.

Insensitive?  Hardly.  I didn’t put Braille on bathrooms.