Shep Campbell's Eyebrows

Alright, this one's been brewin' for a while. It's time I lay it on you... Everybody knows the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" and it rings true enough, right? Richard Yates, in his masterpiece Revolutionary Road, dedicates paragraph upon paragraph to describing Shep Campbell's secret love for April Wheeler. His envy of her husband, his contempt for his own wife... but in the movie it's summed up in the eyebrows... it's strictly implied in the eyebrows.

What if all we had were Shep's eyebrows? That would put a lot more pressure on the actor wouldn't it? What is the feeling in there? If we had 1,000 empirically accurate words to sum up every frame of film from 'the movie of our lives' then this would be a very different life, but of course that is not the way it is. Our lives are confusing messes full of misunderstandings and contradictions. We don't have Richard Yates whispering at 5000 words per second precisely what is going on and why.

Do you see where this is going? Here's what we're gonna do. We will pick a photograph, or a painting or something -- anything contained, complete and 2D. Then I will ask you to sum it up in +/- 1,000 words. If enough people participate then we can publish it, stick it in bookstores, and loan it to our neighbors!

Happy Birthday Eric Culp

This is the last picture we ever took together. That's Baby Kev, Me, James Mac, and Julius Ceasar...

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