[Motion. The sound of squeaky wheels and the distinctive chi-chi-chi-chi-chink! of a bike chain stuck between gears, the thin flare of a small headlight. The image is poorly lit, streaked with something obstructing most of the view, but there's the sensation of erratic motion, the shadow of wobbling wheel spokes.

Someone's fumbling his NV on while ( Read more... )

It's funny how holidays aren't really just one day, the celebrating goes on and on before it even happens. It feels like it's here already, with all the decorations up and the candy on sale, and there's still so much of it left. I've got some time left to get the flavor just right, for candy corn ice cream.

[Which he's doing on his kitchen counter ( Read more... )

Good news: Transferred over at the stadium- they've got me training for tech crew instead of concessions for the rest of the football games. I get to climb up and test speakers and do sound check.

Bad news: After five tries with the ice cream, we gave up. Cranberry jelly in vanilla just doesn't really make for good flavor- it was never meant to be. ( Read more... )

[A skate park bordering the industrial sector, by the looks of things. The sun is just beginning to rise over the lip of one of the ramps, and there's no sign of the boy making this post but the toes of his boots, by the way his NV's angled. His voice is a little tired- the worn out that comes after staying up all night, but it looks like he's ( Read more... )

Been so busy I forgot to say anything on the network about the film contest! Oh- if anyone doesn't know by now,Swept Away won. Not bad for a second shot at making a good video. Now people can recognize me as 'that kid who was a film festival director' and not just 'that kid who made the dumb countdown movie'.

Good job with everyone else's, though! I ( Read more... )

[The silver-haired youth is in a dimmed basement-like room, surrounded by big ol' reels of old fashioned movie film. and a monstrosity of an editing machine. The proverbial cutting room floor is getting pretty littered...and Sander Cohen's currently at work behind him, for the moment engrossed enough in splicing reels together that Joe can sneak in ( Read more... )

You know, and I wasn't even going to talk about it yesterday because I thought it was a dumb thing to just brush off...

But it's still bugging me, so I'm not.

On the newsfeed yesterday. No, not the tank guys, although that's just a shame- No, I'm talking about that film contest, or whatever it is. And that local jerk who's so sure he's going to win ( Read more... )

Xion, I found the papers!

[Triumph. That's the brief glint of silver haired adolescent visible brielfly, before a 5-page pictorial diagram of bunk bed assembly is waved in front of the camera.]

We almost had it all right yesterday. So I just switched around the guard rails, and- (I found the missing peg too) and look, see, the ladder fits ( Read more... )

Hah! Guess when it pays to have a crummy workday!

I got tripped by some idiot smart mouth SERO-fan today and lost half my tray, got hollered at by the boss, had to cover the lost merchandise out of my pocket and stay after do someone else's sections too, after my own (sticky lemonade's a pain to mop up). But late bleachers duty after the game aren' ( Read more... )

Is it right to have to change something about yourself, in order to 'get ahead'? Is it so easy to become a whole new person?

[Sounds like an existential replica crisis on the line. 'Joe' is seated on a fire escape in the warm afternoon sunlight, a set of headphones looped around his neck, looking down discouraged into his NV camera.]

It would be ( Read more... )