Life in the Air
As things wind down, I'm starting to realize exactly how much I had grown used to Palo Alto, to living in California, and to the routines I have established here in a seemingly very short period of time.I am continually enamored of the planes above Silicon Valley. The fascination continues, though, as I attempt to gather statistics on life in the air. I want to know how many people are born in airplanes, and how many die? How many people are above the earth's surface at any given moment? Essentially, there is a world existing above the surface of the globe with the same core routines that we engage in on land. Right now, at this very moment, there are people eating, drinking, sleeping, crying, walking, sitting, coughing, yelling, shopping, and praying all in airplanes. Contained within the fuselages of these planes are entire systems of germ exchange, a range of goods being transported, and a diverse population of individuals. In the sky, then, is an atomized (class-imbalanced) reflection of what we find on earth, broken like so many scattered clouds.
A year ago today (and tomorrow) I was having a pleasant weekend in LA.
Do you remember using transfer-letters as a kid? After recently discovering that a local art store has their entire stock of Letraset transfer-letters on sale, I have been fascinated with them. Digital ease combined with physical-world ephemerality: rub them off once and they're gone forever! Are there actual commercial applications for these letters anymore?
Up until now I've purposefully kept my domains seperated. That is, only on one occasion have I linked from one domain to another. I used to have some sort of justification for this, something about watching how each individual site grows by itself. Someone much more experienced than myself pointed out (or perhaps just made me realize) that I really have no reason to do this. That being the case, you may want to think about visiting my places project (where you can mix music and location) or monolot (where you can find nice stuff). Both of these are relatively new.
Not poke, that's poke.
--Posted 05/28/01 01:07PM