09-Jan-2003, Joey Blue, Wall

Are we nuts?:

This wall is around the base of a garden of a church, which is right across the street from the parking lot and the building where i live. Every week this church puts up the title of the sermon of that week’s Sunday service. When i saw this title i thought, i have to get a photo with that! I am a diagnosed schizophrenic actually. There is one 2-way street where you see the parked car, one 1-way street running North to South [4th Street], right down behind my photographer that happened to be my friend and neighbor. There is another 1-way street coming out from behind another church across from where i was standing less than 1/8th of a block south of us. As it was about 3:30 in the afternoon, there was a lot of traffic coming from all directions. We waited for a break in the traffic to take this photo. But a few cars showed up from that street that comes down from beside the other church. They all had to look North in our direction to see if any traffic was coming South in their direction. I am sure they must have see us there. I was a nervous wreck. I said to my girl-friend, "Take the picture, take the picture, take the picture!" As they change the sermon title every week i had a small window of time to get the photo. I will cherish this photo in years to come.

You can see the other side of the wall in this scene from the film ‘The Sixth Sense’ with Bruce Willis looking at the other church. I actually saw them filming this scene on my street. Here is a photo taken directly off my TV set from the movie. [© Hollywood Pictures]

Take care & stay bare,

Joey Blue