WEEK 12: Artistic: Transportation – Our world is one defined by how we get around. Literal or interpretative, find inspiration in transportation.
I had too many ideas for this one; cars, trains, bicycles, buses, perhaps even an Amish carriage, if I were to travel west a few dozen miles. I mean, how can so much choice be a problem, right?
Well, it can because the issue then becomes one of creative overload, at least in my case. Yes, I need to focus (pun intended) on what I actually want to achieve with this assignment.
So, a day or two to think and then here we go:
Idea 1: Panning cars traveling on the highway to give a blurred background. It didn’t happen.
Idea 2: An arty shot of an AMTRAK train or the SEPTA regional railway, maybe in black and white. It didn’t happen.
Idea 3: A bustling street scene in the center of town, or a commuter ride showing traffic congestion. It didn’t happen.
Idea 4: Cyclists – there’s always several of these guys on the back roads at the weekend. That one didn’t even start!
Grr, what’s going on?
Then, on the Monday morning drive to work, an epiphany: the American school bus – it’s so obvious!
As an immigrant from England the yellow school bus is as much an internationally known icon of US society as the red double-decker bus is quintessentially British. It instantly identifies any scene as being American. I would venture more so even than a slice of mom’s apple pie cooling on the window sill…
… and I know where they park a lot of them 🙂
Oh, and there’s a backstory to this as well – I will share that on tomorrow’s post
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