A Spotlight from Peter Arkle - Trying to Catch the Straw

'When wandering around I sometimes am lucky enough to see odd little poetic, funny or weird things happening, things that usually only happen for a very short time. I like to take these things and capture them and preserve them as animated GIFS, little PIECES of TIME, endlessly repeating. In this case I was walking along Houston Street in the East Village one day when I saw a construction foreman staring into space, lost in his thoughts, trying to find his straw with his tongue (his free hand was holding his laptop). I wonder what he was thinking? Was his construction project behind schedule? Was he deciding where to go for a vacation? Or was he just annoyed? Where has that straw got to? 'Da...View all