macy . 17 years old / denver . colorado
i spent the day playing with bicycles with a buddy of mine. we went to the "veloswap", an annual bicycle flea market of sorts. there were loads of bikes and loads of people and it was loads of fun. we were on a mission to find him something to ride and we succeeded. we left the swap to go home and immediately started tinkering on the new wheels. the day brought me back to my childhood, when i used to spend many hours disassembling bicycles and piecing them back together. i don't know why, but i've always enjoyed fooling around with bikes.
after working on his bike for a while, my buddy and i decided to take it to a shop to have some things done to it that were a bit out of my league. i hadn't photographed a stranger yet, so i was hoping to find someone down there at the shop. and... that is exactly what happened. this young blonde guy was waiting for his own bicycle to get fixed, so i decided to ask him to be today's stranger. i usually don't ask people in stores or restaurants or places of business, but i figured the bike shop was a relaxed enough venue to do some soliciting.
macy agreed to be today's stranger right away. i asked him to go outside for the photos and he was happy to oblige. i didn't find out until we got out there that he was only 17, but he seemed like the kind of guy that had parents that weren't going to get too upset about this.
macy struck me as a much more well rounded fellow than i was at his age. as we talked, that hunch proved to be true. i pulled sartre's "the age of reason" out of my bag to use as a clipboard and macy said he had already read one of his other books. i didn't even know about sartre until a few weeks ago! macy went on to tell me that he plans on moving out to san francisco after he graduates because he wants to work for americorps and live with his older sister out there. i also had no idea what americorps was at 17 years old. i told macy about a project i am in the middle of with the boys & girls club and he told me that he has done some volunteer work with them, too. he also rides a peugeot, which is a really cool french bicycle. i decided macy was pretty rad.
thanks so much for your time, man.
i spent the day playing with bicycles with a buddy of mine. we went to the "veloswap", an annual bicycle flea market of sorts. there were loads of bikes and loads of people and it was loads of fun. we were on a mission to find him something to ride and we succeeded. we left the swap to go home and immediately started tinkering on the new wheels. the day brought me back to my childhood, when i used to spend many hours disassembling bicycles and piecing them back together. i don't know why, but i've always enjoyed fooling around with bikes.
after working on his bike for a while, my buddy and i decided to take it to a shop to have some things done to it that were a bit out of my league. i hadn't photographed a stranger yet, so i was hoping to find someone down there at the shop. and... that is exactly what happened. this young blonde guy was waiting for his own bicycle to get fixed, so i decided to ask him to be today's stranger. i usually don't ask people in stores or restaurants or places of business, but i figured the bike shop was a relaxed enough venue to do some soliciting.
macy agreed to be today's stranger right away. i asked him to go outside for the photos and he was happy to oblige. i didn't find out until we got out there that he was only 17, but he seemed like the kind of guy that had parents that weren't going to get too upset about this.
macy struck me as a much more well rounded fellow than i was at his age. as we talked, that hunch proved to be true. i pulled sartre's "the age of reason" out of my bag to use as a clipboard and macy said he had already read one of his other books. i didn't even know about sartre until a few weeks ago! macy went on to tell me that he plans on moving out to san francisco after he graduates because he wants to work for americorps and live with his older sister out there. i also had no idea what americorps was at 17 years old. i told macy about a project i am in the middle of with the boys & girls club and he told me that he has done some volunteer work with them, too. he also rides a peugeot, which is a really cool french bicycle. i decided macy was pretty rad.
thanks so much for your time, man.
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