Here are three videos - all posted as separate entries for those viewing through Ant and other RSS mediums.
They show the build-up of my day walking around South Central and the Crenshaw District.
All in all Autumn and I walked for nine hours in a huge circle. When we began our day, we commented to each other how much we were enjoying being in South Central and how we didn't really feel any of the trepidation whilst we were there that people had had about those neighborhoods when they heard I was going to walk there. It's been an issue since beginning this project of how to separate the reputation of a neighborhood from it's reality and how the two influence each other.
Then we walked down this street and met these firemen and had this conversation that put me on edge. (Watch the vid. It's some outtakes from Autumns' B Roll. The beginning I left in just coz I liked it but then you'll see me talking to the fireman.)
How do I balance between what I'm feeling about where I'm at (i.e. fine) with the stories people are telling me about the place while I'm in it? And which is truer, my feeling or their story? How can I trust that the motives of a person telling me their scary stories are pure motives? Or that what's true for them is true for me? This was what kept on coming up throughout the day.
Click Pic to Watch the Firemen in South Central
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