Document.
Thinking about how life would have been different for some folks if the above picture was never taken. Does anybody know who this photographer is?
Like “To die in suits” which is the greatest downhill part caught ever…you have to credit the one who documented the moment. The over-ecstatic crowd. Jordan flying. Jordan III’s. The clock. Dr. J’s historic dunk modernized with style. Beyond rad. Evolutionary.
So many amazing people doing amazing things right now. Who’s documenting? Has the current landscape blinded us from the responsibility of capturing the folks who are moving us ahead? Have we forgotten to observe as our culture and focalized POV’s have us turning inward for reaction instead of going external?
Look at this image. What it raises as a possibility. The imagination that coasts for a while in its wake.
Think of all the impressions. All the kids who really believed that someday they could traverse the vertical plane. Every kid had to confront the reality of whether they would ever dunk or not. Really - just to see this moment standing firmly at the crossroads of history, culture, and legend is hard to look away from.
An O.G. moment as an example. Also a hardened memory pull I’ve never been able to (nor wanted to) erase.
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