\”Have you heard of photography etiquette?\” the homeless guy asked me.

I had been using the digital video camera, trying to get a shot of the Fat Slice sign (Fat Slice is a pizza place in Berkeley, also where I had a Mike Fernando incident). And also of Seth (playing just the anonymous mysterious dark figure in the corner) walking through Telegraph. I was slightly surprised and stopped the recording. I ran after my walking actor and as I walked past the homeless guy, I said, \”No.\”

But I suppose me loitering in front of Fat Slice with an expensive camcorder on my hand would indicate something. In my class, the instructor warned us that it would be difficult to capture the homeless on video. It\’s the fact that they think we would mock them. Or that we are using their natural roles without any additional cost. We\’re using them. And that\’s why the other day when I was trying to film Telegraph/Bancroft, I pointed the camera down instead of trying to capture people. I didn\’t want people to think that I was filming anybody…and that people would run away. But the problem is that people in this world as the most interesting things to capture on video. All it takes is to ask them, but without a huge production budget behind me, what\’s their incentive?

I still need a shot of someone sitting at a curb in front of Fat Slice.

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Happy Fourth of July! I remember last year, I spent it watching a movie (the HULK) with..guess who else…Seth.