I've seen this behavior before. It might have appeared that Jin was pouncing at thin air, but I knew that if I looked closely I'd see that he had a wasp or a fly or a mosquito in sight. It's funny to watch stalk a bug, and so I grabbed my camera and tried to capture it on my camera. Unfortunately, I ended up with a fairly boring minute and a half of video punctuated with three or four amusing two-second intervals. I won't subject you to that.
The fly was tiny, and it wasn't annoying me, so I left Jin to it while I went to campus for several hours. When I returned home for lunch, I opened the door to a traumatized dog. He jumped on me as soon as I walked in the door, then followed me from room to room, climbing onto the couch when I sat down, cowering by the toilet when I went to use the bathroom (this was rather awkward), and curling up at my feet under my tiny kitchen table while I ate. Every once in awhile, he would leap to his feet, cock his head, and pounce at thin air again. When I opened the door to the shared laundry area to change my laundry, Jin ran up the stairs that separate my apartment from the upstairs and sat at the top by my upstairs neighbor's closed door until I coaxed him down. When he slunk back into the kitchen he was shaking. The fly must have been tormenting him the entire time I was gone. I felt kind of bad, but I also found it funny.
Fortunately for Jin, at some point before I left again I saw something small and black near my hand, made a grabbing motion, and found that I'd almost-inadvertently managed to capture and kill the tiny fly (or maybe it was a mosquito, it was too squished to tell) that had eluded him since that morning. I then used the video footage I'd acquired to attempt to reconstruct the nightmarish ordeal Jin went through while I was out of the house. And now that I've watched my reconstruction several times, I don't blame Jin for being freaked out.
You'll want your sound on for this one.
[Note: The fly footage is simulated.]
5 comments:
Okay, how did you get the camera on that little tiny fly?
Poor, poor Jin.
That is so sad and also hilarious! Poor, sweet, Jin. Driven mad by a fly. We've all been there!
I was going to say that I was amazed no one had made a reference to the episode "Fly" of Breaking Bad, but then I remember that no one watches that show (which they should).
Great video - what was the music?
P.S. - My verification word was "carnsecl," which is like carne seca (dried meat).
It's "Convict's Lament" by Begushkin, which I think I may have gotten on a free All Songs Considered playlist or something. It's the creepiest song I have in my iTunes collection. But I also kept in the Max Richter instumental piece that I'd tried out first, because when I inadvertently played them both on top of each other it created interesting textures and a barely perceptible dissonance that really worked for the mood I was trying to create.
I kind of have too much time on my hands right now...
I don't like flies, and I'm scared of cockroaches.... WOOO~~ I'm a coward, WOO~~~ :(
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