Radiohead- House of Cards.
no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.
I’m still alive!
I understand i’m not the most diligent blogger around, but I promise now that I have a shiny new Mac to be super active and let you guys know what is going on. You already know that I say “guys” in a really awkward way that doesn’t even make sense, and now I plan on unleashing a whole world of vocabulary you didn’t even know existed.
Today I had the best ice cream of all time. (With the possible and understandable exception of Haagen Dazs Pralines and Cream- i’ll never forget you). It was a white chocolate cone, pistachio ice cream, with whole pistachios inside of it- the lady put them in and slapped it around a bit on this metal slab, but it tasted all the better for it.
I also have a new bike, she’s black and she’s named Bernadette.
Bye for now!
“New World”
“Pertaining to the areas of the world most recently discovered by Europeans; eg, North and South America”.
Funny thing this. I rarely questioned the idea that a country was “newer” or “older” than England. I suppose it’s hard to picture a place that is less than a thousand years old if you come from a land that has been around for longer than anyone can gauge.
When I arrived in Canada, everything was new. Buildings, sidewalks, street signs, all the material features which we see in our everyday lives had been there at most a hundred years. What took me longer to realise was that it was not just these which had been swallowed into the New World vortex, it was the ideology too.
In England, as my most understood example, nothing gets done on time. I thought about why, and it’s down to the complacency of the culture. It has been one way for such a long time, that the eventual invasion of newer technologies were not implemented as they would have been in a less archaic culture. It has taken people longer to realise that times have changed. We don’t operate in such a fast paced environment, with the drive-thru ATM’s and fast food joints. We never have and we never will.
In Canada, things work. When I say “things” I mean everyday needs and requirements: The internet, banking institutions, telephone enquiries, 24 hour off licenses, 24 hour Pizza delivery. The list is endless. It is the zeitgeist of the New World culture, one which is missing or perhaps just slightly missing in older cultures.
It is slightly amusing to hear from my mother back home that “The internet is on order – it should take about four weeks” when in Canada it will arrive within a day with no issues.
Maybe the problem is demand. Newer cultures demand higher service, faster service, more value for money. Maybe it isn’t an issue of New or Old world theory, and rather it is down to North Americans being greedy, and British people being a bunch of “lazy bastards”.
