invisibility while recording.

[kevin driscoll <kdriscol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

yesterday, i was walking the strip at hampton beach, nh recording little bits
of noise here and there.  

a shouting match broke out to my left between a group of men and a group of
women.  it seems that the men had propositioned the women in someway, only to
discover that they were actually transgendered.  

listening back to the recording, i'm struck by the remarks of the men - - "i
hope your mother is proud of you!" 


the remarkable part of this story is that i just stood passively by and recorded
the exchange.  had i been simply walking, i would surely have gotten involved,
if only by shouting something out.  in retrospect, it's as if the act of recording
kept me from feeling as though i were really a PART of the scene unfolding before
me.


;; kevin