Prompt
· English
Ground-level view skimming the surface of a groovy shag carpet with a geometric pattern, the near part of the carpet sharp and rising into the frame to reveal a 36-year-old man of Indigenous North American descent sitting on a velvet sofa. He is deep in concentration, the tongue poking from the corner of the mouth, staring at a record player spinning a vinyl album while holding a rotary phone receiver off-hook. The man has rich chestnut-brown skin, a muscular build with broad arms, average height, a square face with a strong jaw, warm brown eyes, sharply angled eyebrows, thick deep waves of very long waist-length hair dyed lilac and worn loose and natural, and a goatee. He wears an oversized grey hoodie and loose cargo trousers. A lava lamp glowing orange sits on the side table next to him, and a stack of cassette tapes rests in a wooden box nearby. The composition uses a tilt-shift lens with a narrow sharp band across the frame and softly blurred top and bottom, placing the main figure breaking a repeating pattern that fills the rest of the frame. Orange sodium streetlight at night illuminates the scene, leaving everything outside its reach in deep blue. Shot on 35mm film with a noticeable grain structure and a warm color cast.
