When Francois Truffaut was filming Tirez sur le Pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) in 1960, he reached a scene in the script for which they needed to film a cocktail party.  The problem, though, was that Truffaut was out of money and could not afford staging a party.  So he brought a couple of cameras and his actors to a party that was already scheduled to promote the release of this same movie...he filmed the interactions of his protagonist with other people, trying not to let any of the guests know that they were being filmed.

Reading about that made me really excited.

A couple Thursdays ago, I was riding my bike around campus to kill some time before I had to be somewhere.  There had been some thunderstorms that afternoon, so there were these towering clouds that were huge and intimidating, and they were being absolutely set on fire by the setting sun.  It was incredible - something that only a Florida thunderstorm can create.  So I was riding in circles on the Green for about half an hour, trying to look at all the clouds in every direction.  Then I started watching people who were coming out of class or Outtakes...they would walk toward the Green, look up at the sky, and stop.  Seriously just about every person that actually took the time to look up literally stopped for at least a few seconds.  It made me happy to see other people appreciating it too.

I think that was one of those moments that I was writing about on here before.