The bit I really love about flying is that fleeting moment, a few thousand feet up, when your sense of scale shifts. Towns are shown up as real entities interconnected across the landscape via moving channels of light particles, each of which are likely to be aware only of the few nearest particles nearest them. It’s a perception that’s easier to slip into if you’ve been up since 0330 hours.
So, I got to spend a couple of days in Paris. Shockingly, I’d never been to the place before. Perhaps I’ve seen Amelié too many times but it didn’t seem very ‘Parisian’. Most likely this was because I didn’t have time to get any further than Notre Dame. I’ll be back to take it in at my leisure.
The workshop I was at was a decent affair. Everyone agreed there are problems to be solved and every seems to have their own solution. It reinforced my belief that a common characteristic of creative geeks is a readiness to build everything from the ground up rather than mess around with other people’s stuff merely for gains in time and effectiveness.
I thought my part of the presentation was patchy but they saw the value in it and invited us to Helsinki for a week, nonetheless. Should be fun.
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