Shot in the house of an internet entrepreneur…with no working internet, por supuesto. Weeding through all this footage is daunting, but there are specks of gold which I discover, little by little, every day.
July, 2009 Monthly archive
Don’t know how I feel about the term “mixed reality”, but I liked the timeline element in The Future of Mobile:
Courtesy @mocom2020
This is the endless question. I want to wear boots, but it’ll be in the 80s. But it’ll be raining, so boots are appropriate! But I should also bring my Birk Gizehs, since it will be hot. But I haven’t really broken them in yet so maybe the old flip flops are a better idea. Then again, Onitsuka Tigers are always so comfortable when walking around Brooklyn! Oh man, so many options! This is how you know you know you’re an idiot. Or that you have no children and have therefore spent all your money on shoes, which you love equally, as you would children.
Obviously I am full of really deep thoughts tonight. I’ll send an update on the shoe situation from Union Square, where I will be sitting in a bookstore tomorrow for about four hours.
I’ve been finding it extremely difficult to focus.
In the thin air of a university closet, computers breathe
heavy lamentations against the floor and their breath
mixes with my own escaping sighs. Together they dive
beneath the stained carpet christened with burnt coffee and
down the hallway past the architectural students
working in all their diligence for some obscenely bright future
smelling of wood chips & aluminum panels which I can only hope,
when this mental fog clears, they will allow me glimpse.
[by Czeslaw Milosz]
A day so happy.
Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain.
When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails.
Scientists have discovered a new type of cloud formation, a species of altocumulus that appears like waves licking the atmosphere. This is by far the most exciting news I’ve heard in months, and has me diving back into my many cloud encyclopedias. In a parallel universe, I am a meteorologist. Maybe you didn’t know.
Been in Idaho the past week, watching two good friends tie the knot in a field at dusk. Actually, dusk came at 10pm, which was the best thing about Idaho. I can’t imagine how people in Sweden deal with the constant light, and then constant darkness; they must be giddy half the year and memorizing constellations the second half.
Which brings me to the second best thing about Idaho: the stars, although there weren’t as many as in the Peruvian jungle. The third best thing was the huckleberries. The fourth best thing was the hot springs, which we climbed up a treacherous mountain in the dark to sit in, three pools of varying levels of hotness, and where I sat an inch away from a hippie dude who, as I quickly discovered, was naked. The fifth best thing was the friendly people, including everyone at the wedding. The sixth best thing was the desert air and clean rivers. The seventh best thing was the sale they were having at the Boise Anthropologie store. The eighth best thing was the fresh fruit. The ninth best thing was the color of the sky at night. And the tenth best thing was this one particular baby at the wedding. He had some of the best eyes I’ve ever seen, shiny dark pools that drank in everything.
This week is lots of video editing and swimming and pottery, followed by New York City, followed by more video editing. I couldn’t have asked for a better summer.