If you wear dumb things on your head, people will stare and take pictures
This dude you see above was walking around during the SXSW festival in Austin, TX with his head incased in vegetable matter. However, it was so much more exciting than a nerd wearing shrubbery on his noggin -- he had affixed two iPhones where his eyes would be and those phones showed moving images of the world from his point of view. Looking into his creepy iPhone eyes was like looking into a mirror. He also had a backpack with more greenery spewing from it.
It was so stupid and so wonderful that everyone wanted to take a picture of him. Green giant ball of WTF was happy to oblige, and I watched him pose for many snaps as he ambled around downtown. He didn't have any logos on him, or QR code or fliers. Unlike 99% of people there, he wasn't advertising or hawking anything. Was he making a statement about green technology? Did the images he was projecting of us seeing ourselves say something about dumb media narcissism? Was he just a nutter?
We may never know. But I say, well done mysterious cruciferious cowboy! And thanks for the photo op.
Then, there's this odd Austinite, pictured below:
Unlike kale head guy, I didn't take his picture. And a good thing too. This is Jonathan Washburn, 23, who allegedly hit a photographer in the head with a skateboard after the man took his picture and then refused to delete it, according to police in Austin, TX. The cameraman, who became this fashion victim's victim, also allegedly had his Oakley sunglasses stolen by Washburn's 19-year-old henchman.
Washburn was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and his shady shade-swiping pal was charged with theft from a person. The only good thing about this story is that although it is unintentional, you gotta admit the stripey jailbird outfit really goes fabulously with his two-tone hair.
But don't you think the tri-tipped hair boy is totally ridiculous? If you let your freak flag fly people are going to want to snap it. You can't go all Sean Penn on people just because they want a photographic piece of you. All I can think is that Washburn desperately wanted to make it into our Bad Hair Day mug shot gallery. If that's the case -- well done young Jonathan! I have pull with the Crime Library editor. He won't brush me off because there's no doubt that the mane thrust of your hair-raising tale is picture perfect.
Please leave your comments about this (as well as any more bad hair puns I may have missed) in the comments below.
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