Walking Slow

I've embarked on another pointless, slow and unmonetisable project. I call it Walking Slow although that is a bad name.

I always find that the most poignant things on YouTube are those street scenes from 50 years ago, 30 years ago, 20 years ago, NOT THAT LONG ago. Especially if it's somewhere you know. Very often it's accidentally captured, someting intended for one purpose but now swept up as social history. Or just nostalgia. Having lived, now, in the same place for 25 years I feel it round here too. I want to remember the dodgy supermarket on the corner, the laundrette, that strange cafe.

So I thought I'd try and document some local streets. I go out early, before there are too many people around and just walk up and down a street, walking normally but filming in slow motion. Looking at one side of the street, from the other side. Just trying to get the shops and the buildings and the signage. Inevitably also getting vans and early joggers and rubbish bags.

And then, because there's got to be some sound too, I sit and add mixes of recentish/relevant music, so the nostalgia hit will be all the sweeter.

Obviously this is slightly predicated on YouTube still being there in 20 years, and not a mess of AIness. But, hey, perhaps it'll be something else and they'll all live in a new UN-funded Library of The Peoples.

In the meantime they make quite nice background watching/listening. A street scene and some music is sometimes just what you want.

Here's one: