{"id":40,"date":"2009-06-24T09:35:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T09:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:10:10","slug":"landmark-change-in-conciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/landmark-change-in-conciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmark change in conciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ken

Ken - A people watcher with No Fixed Abode<\/p><\/div>\n

Last Tuesday (16th) I was out working on my current project.\u00a0 I filmed this chap above.\u00a0 He's called Ken and he is homeless.\u00a0 During the interview he was drinking from a bottle of cheap cider with haste and talking about some filthy subjects.\u00a0 It was rather entertaining listening to the old boy ramble on in his up-beat Scottish accent.\u00a0 Toward the end of the shoot as I packed away my camera he noticed it was a Praktica and commented.\u00a0 He began telling me how he used to have a Canon A1 and it dawned on me how easily I had forgotten that homeless alcoholics had a different life before they were homeless alcoholics.<\/p>\n

Several days later after telling people about my entertaining filming experience with Ken the moment had almost completely left my conciousness.\u00a0 Until Friday morning as I sat in traffic along Station Road.\u00a0 I noticed a crowd of concerned people around the public toilet, on the bench infront of the toilet was a large hiking bag with a bed-roll attached.\u00a0 Whereas I would normally have dismissed the moment, writing off the onlookers as blood-lusting rubber-neckers and the victim as another dead zooner not worthy of a second thought, I instead thought, \"Oh shit, I hope it's not Ken\" and that<\/em> was the moment it hit me!\u00a0 I had just had a landmark change in conciousness.\u00a0 For the first time in my life a homeless person had moved out of the realm of being a public object<\/em> and into the category of being a member of the community, that is to say my<\/em> community; the people I chose to recognise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Tuesday (16th) I was out working on my current project.\u00a0 I filmed this chap above.\u00a0 He’s called Ken and he is homeless.\u00a0 During the interview he was drinking from a bottle of cheap cider with haste and talking about some filthy subjects.\u00a0 It was rather entertaining listening to the old boy ramble on in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[21,23],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-homeless","tag-video-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}