loosened up (provo, utah)

a large man who teaches elementary school and normally doesn’t drink has let himself go at a karaoke bar. He screams the words to “Rebel Yell” and dances with his whole body, throwing himself on the floor of the stage in a grand finale.

and he shall have music wherever he goes (phoenix, az)

a high schooler strums his guitar for his friends as they make their way across a crosswalk.

midnight sign waver (scottsdale, az)

at 12:30 in the morning (yes, just after midnight), a guy stands on a street corner in the dark, wearing headphones and waving a sign (like check cashing places do during daylight hours) for a smoke shop. the name of the smoke shop, it turns out? “The Coughing Canary.”

snackin’, shoppin’ (scottsdale, az)

a man wearing a gold chain around his neck eats popcorn as he strolls the aisles of the supermarket.

backseat drivers – from the corner (scottsdale, az)

a man is behind the wheel of a sports car. He revvs the engine and “peels rubber” going around the corner. A group of thirteen year old girls are walking down the street and one shouts, “Learn how to drive, #$!!!” “yeah, like for sure!” the other girls agree.

lucrative position? (scottsdale, az)

a woman sits at a bus stop, but never gets on any bus. instead, she simply sits on the bench and asks anyone who is considering catching the bus if they can give her a dollar.

keeping up with personal hygiene (scottsdale, az)

in the shadows behind a Circle K, a man brushes his teeth at 7 pm.

peeking cat (scottsdale, az)

an elementary schooler wearing a cat mask peers out the window of the schoolbus to the mid-november traffic.

eyelashes (scottsdale, az)

her hair is so blonde it is white – and her eyelashes are the same. They catch the light as the city bus hurtles through the dark downtown.

tapping to the beat (tempe, az)

a girl in a batman shirt taps both of her heels and both of her thumbs to the beat of a song only she can hear over her headphones.