Let me apologize in advance for my really crappy camera work here. In my defense I was caught a little off guard by the Christopher Street Rally in Munich yesterday, because I had no idea it was going on and I was in the Marienplatz shopping district on another errand and I just wasn't able to make the mental gear shift that I needed to, so I'm all over the map with this footage that I literally shot from the hip.
My wife was a bit more focused than I was, so I'll be posting some of her stuff once we go through it.
One thing I didn't notice right away until I got home and looked at it is that the thing that really stands out is the thing that doesn't.
Not a lot of flaming flamboyant Brünö stereo types to be seen in the crowd, save for this guy I spotted while I was on the second floor of a retail store as he was passing by in the street.
I like the color coordination he's got going there, what with him using all the colors of the German Flag in his outfit.
A little irked I didn't spot him 10 seconds earlier though.
When I post some more clips later, be sure to look at the crowd and how 'normal' looking most people are. I'm beginning to form the belief that a lot of socially persecuted/ostracized so-called 'fringe' people go for outrageousness as a defense mechanism.
As in:
'Oh, yeah, you think I'm a freak, do you? Lemme show you what a freak REALLY looks like.'
More on this later in my follow up post.
nice .. watching your video while simultaneously listening to Kevin Yost and dressing to go see "Bruno"
Posted by: Slugbug | July 12, 2009 at 12:39 PM