it was a bizarre experience. I mean there was a car load of late night people and this one guy wrapped in plastic. It took me a long time just looking at the oddness of him in a dry subway wrapped in plastic... to then remember that kids die all the time in dry cleaning bags, etc... and then I though of his whole journey in the night .. and well I was ashamed that my first reaction was how interesting he looked in that bag.

I clawed about five holes in the bag... I hope it was enough.

You can drown in teaspooon of water....

Yea I would of felt funny too and I know the feeling. Moriza actually was saying how he felt guilty taping the homeless guy he found sleeping. Meanwhile I was at a community garden today taping an old rusty birdbath and was asked to stop filming the "art" lol that it was not right. I was like "oh this is a sculpture?" He started yelling at me. I don't have the whole conversation on tape but part of it - I had to stop because he was all upset I was filming the rusty objects laying around in the garden. It was really bizarre.

now that I want to hear.

My need to shoot it was interesting to me. Only and also because I was going to shoot him in the bag as it was aesthetically interesting.. and then I had on of those Daffy DUck "WAIT A FUCKING MINUTUTE" moments... or was it just paternal?

Well it takes a village, or a subway train, or at least a beery artist.

I'm still not sure it wasn't a suicide attempt.

not a suicide attempt maybe he was drunk. How was Galapagos BTW?

Oh my god. Galapagos looks like heaven fucked hell.... litterally.. its vegas and the Copacobana floating on steel. Nuts beautiful... and the nice thing was there was no one there so I go to really just dig the space as space.

I'm hoping never to experience them.

yeah me too... but in my own mind:

"Dude look at that plastic... who'd leave plastic like that all around? fucking slob dude? fuck them they suck... man ....

and blah blah.

Hey wait... there's someone unnder that... shit... want's to be dry... shit....plastic.

Mommy always told me not to play with plastic bags. Mommy


she said I'd suffocate,but that... long time ago.

he's okay.

he knows how to live.

He's probably homeless

so he knows how to live...



wait...if he's homeless....

maybe he doesn't know how to live... maybe he doesn't even want to live?


that's about the time I went up and opened the bag.

yeah the thing that doesn't quite show here is that I had to acutally tear holes in front of his face... (as that is what kills)
These shots are from my tentative first stab (also trying to wake him up)

later I just wend for the head.

wish I shot that whole thing... crazy

yeah I hope that's clear.

I was like "what a shot"

and then my super ego mother voice said "is he breathing?"
Yes super ego mother voice.

You sure?

Well?? ....???....no

Check?

went up and saw the chest move.

He's breathing


Great...dude... he's in a bag.

Yeah?

Kids suffocate in a bag all the time... just as they are dumb kids.

Yeah?

Well he's not dumb kid.

Right

What?

He's not a dumb kid.

Yeah and so? Fucker.

Why are you nasty now?

Cause you are stupid.

What?

Fuck.

What?

Fuck you.

what?

LIsten to me.

I'm listening.

LOL!!!!!

Best comment reply I've ever seen!

....and LOL "super ego mother voice" !!

Glad you enjoyed. It's all too true.

That comment would've made for an awesome narrative.

I suppose it is at least in prose form, but yeah maybe I'll have to do a dramatization as a short film. Good idea really. Thanks.

well you worry about it, but all faith fails I suppose.

never seen the heroreports before. Only read the parody in the Onion.

Oh I don't know, I've helped a lot of mother's with their strollers over the years. It's not so uncommon.

thats good to know, because my friends had similar experiences [american friends]. and since they dont do it. its funny, some told me to not help a person that fell, cause some might sue you for making them fall. its,like,a routine some bums do i guess :]

thanks I adore him.

So true and So sad

Doesn't take a good SamarITIN to save a life... just you know, someONE.

u deserve credit. Nice work.

You just deal with what's on your plate. Furnace going out or leaking C02 could be the fixings for a tragedy as well. This guy wasn't going to freeze to death, he was just dumb, or high enough to accidently kill himself.

I bet you can see this sort of thing all over the world... late night trains are full of weirdness in Paris and Moscow and Japan, etc.

who knows. He probably would have been fine. It's actually a pretty hard thing to die. Look at all the failed suicides. However. It was more or less apalled at myself because my FIRST reaction was: Damn that's weird looking. I should take a picture. and then I asked my self why he looked so cool: I mean it's just a man and some plastic, but I started reasoning: He looks like a corpse out of a Scorcesse movie and I asked myself why and a I realized he was wrapped in plastic and Then I realized that if he WAS wrapped in plastic that there was a definite risk of aphoexia, or however you say aphoixation my Latin sucks, but anyway it was only after getting out the camera thinking about Scorcesse and Coppola and the history of the mob movie in America that it finally dawned on me that this guy could be dead, or dying. So it was only then that I realized I should probably check and then when I saw that He was indeed alive, I should probably to something to make sure he stays that way. Course in my own defense, no one else on the Subway did anything. We are drunk and asleep coming home on the F to Brooklyn. No sleep till.... etc.

oh those fucking 80s