I had always wanted to make a picture of
Ichiro. My grand hope was to use 262
baseballs as my canvas but that was
prohibitively expensive. So when I thought
of using sidewalk chalk for a month of art I
really wanted to create something Ichiro.
There was a bunch of little league baseball
fields that I always used to do my morning
jog past and I thought behind the diamond
would make a great location.
So I did my prep which was pretty easy and
went to the field, found a nice spot behind
home plate and got to work setting up. I was
hoping to film from above and this proved to
be the most difficult part. I had to climb
up on the fence to attach my camera, but as I
would climb up it I would put a bow in the
fence so when I attached my camera it was
looking at a different location than when I
was not on the fence. I tried to trouble
shoot but just settled into making a guess
and hope.
I got to work putting the piece together. It
was fairly straight forward but just took
time. I had purchased a new pair of knee
pads and they were no good. They tended to
move the chalk around and the "super comfort"
strap that held them onto my leg weren't what
they said they'd be. So I got rid of them
and had to kneel through the rest of it.
As I was finishing up I was surprised to see
a little league team showing up. They all
looked at it, the kids were impressed, and
the dads said "why?". Different priorities.
I went back a few days later after a storm
and found it washed half away. Same
situation a while later when there was just a
whisper left over.
Ichiro. My grand hope was to use 262
baseballs as my canvas but that was
prohibitively expensive. So when I thought
of using sidewalk chalk for a month of art I
really wanted to create something Ichiro.
There was a bunch of little league baseball
fields that I always used to do my morning
jog past and I thought behind the diamond
would make a great location.
So I did my prep which was pretty easy and
went to the field, found a nice spot behind
home plate and got to work setting up. I was
hoping to film from above and this proved to
be the most difficult part. I had to climb
up on the fence to attach my camera, but as I
would climb up it I would put a bow in the
fence so when I attached my camera it was
looking at a different location than when I
was not on the fence. I tried to trouble
shoot but just settled into making a guess
and hope.
I got to work putting the piece together. It
was fairly straight forward but just took
time. I had purchased a new pair of knee
pads and they were no good. They tended to
move the chalk around and the "super comfort"
strap that held them onto my leg weren't what
they said they'd be. So I got rid of them
and had to kneel through the rest of it.
As I was finishing up I was surprised to see
a little league team showing up. They all
looked at it, the kids were impressed, and
the dads said "why?". Different priorities.
I went back a few days later after a storm
and found it washed half away. Same
situation a while later when there was just a
whisper left over.