Cicadas in College Green (Athens, Ohio)

August 29, 2008

I visited a friend in Athens, Ohio, this past weekend. Before going to his place, I did a short tour of downtown Athens. I attended Ohio University from 1994-1998 and then lived there through the summer of 1999 while working at the legendary Burrito Buggy. During the summer of 1999, the 17-year cicadas emerged and took-over the city. It was a magical and nightmarish time of my life, so the way that the world was literally consumed by a biblical-scale swarm of cicadas seemed symbolic to me at the time.

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One of the places where the cicadas shined was in Ohio University's College Green area. In this movie, I pay a visit and was actually surprised at how impressive their singing was on an regular year. (Note: I call them 15-year cicadas in the video. I think that's wrong.)" ["url"]=> string(27) "https://vimeo.com/180529998" ["upload_date"]=> string(19) "2016-08-28 20:16:07" ["thumbnail_small"]=> string(112) "https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/588788664-1c387c2907674da06d0d0a3c56119d498f1bcacb749856eb109420b94de55b34-d_100x75" ["thumbnail_medium"]=> string(113) "https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/588788664-1c387c2907674da06d0d0a3c56119d498f1bcacb749856eb109420b94de55b34-d_200x150" ["thumbnail_large"]=> string(109) "https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/588788664-1c387c2907674da06d0d0a3c56119d498f1bcacb749856eb109420b94de55b34-d_640" ["user_id"]=> int(5384888) ["user_name"]=> string(16) "Robbie Schneider" ["user_url"]=> string(30) "https://vimeo.com/zerodegreesk" ["user_portrait_small"]=> string(45) "https://i.vimeocdn.com/portrait/1751998_30x30" ["user_portrait_medium"]=> string(45) "https://i.vimeocdn.com/portrait/1751998_75x75" ["user_portrait_large"]=> string(47) "https://i.vimeocdn.com/portrait/1751998_100x100" ["user_portrait_huge"]=> string(47) "https://i.vimeocdn.com/portrait/1751998_300x300" ["stats_number_of_likes"]=> int(0) ["stats_number_of_plays"]=> int(52) ["stats_number_of_comments"]=> int(0) ["duration"]=> int(66) ["width"]=> int(640) ["height"]=> int(480) ["tags"]=> string(0) "" ["embed_privacy"]=> string(8) "anywhere" } }