When a skate spot haunts you

A haunting stair with a rail in Belgrade

Maxi supermarket in Dorcol, Belgrade, Serbia is a haunting set of stairs for unrandom reasons.

A perfect run-up, smooth ground, and a beautiful stair with rail and the two mirroring stair sets allows you to chose between backside AND Frontside regardless if you're goofy or regular. I photographed it at first sight after grocery shopping

How much time does this spot take from my day?

During coffee, while toileting, even when discussing abstract philosophy, the stair seeks attention for about five hours a day. Woody Allen has New York, I have this Maxi supermarket spot in Belgrade.

How can we exceed the thought of the stair?

Buddha said when we're cool, relaxed, and let our problems be, they will settle themselves. On the other hand, if a foreign skate-spot army of thoughts is attacking your head, will you chill and lay in bed? Attack the shit out of them.

Maybe skating the spot will relieve me from thinking of it like you would tell someone what you really think to get it out of your system. I'll slay the dragon to make peace in my village by filming one clip at the spot. The same effect as cleaning dishes and tidying the room clears up the mind and establishes ease

Skating the stair is not a war as Thrasher puts it. Hemmingway could call it to combat as he calls writing. And he has actually been to a real war here in Europe. We'll call this a long-lasting bar fight resulting in a security guard escorting us.

What is the appropriate approach?

Where do we start? Telling a 3-year-old ''clean up your room'' isn't effective like saying ''put the legos in the box''. I drew the ideas on post-it notes to separate and clarify before skating it. A step-by-step process keeps us from overwriting our thoughts during the imagination and doesn't overwhelm.

The benefits of the obsession

A math problem can make you forget about your stomach trouble, and this stair keeps me from nothingness and provides a goal. We can speculate if the goal is reasonable another time. The creativity is flourishing as the stair is a creativity test. Approaches include going sideways, upward, darkslides, freestyle, and using the tree on the side of the stair as a monkey would.

Overthinking the stair

Too much thinking can create unhealthy tricks like varial flips and kickflip indy grabs. What's next, sliding on the stomach down the stair? That would end in the hospital but also famous on Instagram for an hour.

One entertaining, ridiculous and not an effective idea is to wax the rail with chocolate. Grabbing the board to not lose it during a backflip is effective, Chocolating the rail is decorative like fancy shoes on and actress.

Getting Stuck

Using time on something is generating new ideas to a certain extent. Then it stops. For example, online calls with loved ones often end up in asking about their day a hundred times. The situation becomes milked out like a 17th Superman movie. We need more material to keep going since all files are extracted and the folder is empty. My thoughts are stuck at considering doing a noseslide on the rail and jump to a tailslide on the ledge.

Aristoteles said balance is key. There are other monsters to combat and the thought of the stair is distracting from that.

What's next?

Clearing up the mind by generating a multitude of ideas and plotting approaches is resolving the hauntingness. The next level is to write an essay, the level after that is making a short-film piece about the whole process.

References:

Serbia, Belgrade, Dorcol, Maxi stair: Google maps, 2014

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.8275181,20.4614252,3a,75y,14.69h,73.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srlBSVp8kzoklmnYDZpFoKw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Buddha: 7 Things The Buddha Taught Us About Overcoming Suffering: Potential for change, 2016.

http://potentialforchange.com/7-things-the-buddha-taught-us-about-overcoming-suffering/

Aristoteles: Golden mene: Wikipedia, 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_mean_(philosophy)

Hemmingway: Why was Hemingway a war criminal?: Quora, 2018.

https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Hemingway-a-war-criminal

Woody Allen: Why Manhattan is the definitive Woody Allen film: Acmi, 2016

https://www.acmi.net.au/ideas/read/manhattan-definitive-woody-allen-film/

Made by Kai Bonsaksen