The Spontaneous Prose Store
I was wandering around, the way I do, taking pictures. I was on 6th Street when I heard the sound of…a typewriter. I can’t say for certain that was the first outdoor typewriter I’d heard, but it may have been.
And there, in front of the Driskill Hotel, I saw it: the Spontaneous Prose Store. The proprietor, Kaile H. Glick, was gracious about letting me take pictures while she wrote on a topic of my choice.
She typed on a label, with a piece of blue carbon paper behind so she can keep a record of her work.
Here’s what she wrote for me:
Be sure to stop by her blog. Oh, and look around – maybe you’ll see her in your town.
Austin, Texas
photographeyd 5.11.2013
Posted on May 12, 2013, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, austin, austin texas, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, spontaneous prose, texas. Bookmark the permalink. 13 Comments.
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WOW!!! If she made that up on the spot she has a very unusual talent. One that I envy a lot.
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I think she did make it up on the spot, and that IS an enviable talent. My friend Andy and I once talked about having a booth called “Poetry Writ Here” at an outdoor market here in Lubbock; it was a good idea until we realized that coming up with the title had exhausted our supply of spontaneity.
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Great !
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Thanks, Anisaj. Finding a street-side poet was the favorite part of my day.
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Very cool indeed!
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It was the best part of the day!
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If it wasn’t the best part of your day, then it would have been trumped by something even more amazing.
Perhaps something like running into a large-format street photographer that took, from under a velvet cloth, an 8×10 glass negative of you and camera in front of the back side of an almost symmetrical abandoned building. And gave you the negative while keeping a print for her records. But even that might not be as good as this is.
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Well, now I think I need to go back to Austin to look for that street photographer you described in this wonderfully dream-like comment……..
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That’s pretty good!
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I sure couldn’t have written an on-demand poem!!
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True!
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That is very cool!
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Cooler, even, than the gold boots!
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