Came home to London for the weekend to see my pretty girl. The girl doesn’t scare me (*cough* alright, maybe sometimes she can), the city did though!
I went to her classes with her on Monday, I was really interested in seeing where she went everyday, and also seeing what she does. I like her, so I want to see little bits of her life.
I respect her for being able to consume and memorize such shear volumes of information. It’s quite different
From what I do. The thing that scared me though were the white people! They were everywhere! UWO scares me. Even those not white, dressed white. Everyone in gap (or old navy) quite literally. After being in a culturally diverse city like Toronto it was a shock, it was odd (VERY) to look at, and I also felt less important. I was just one of them, part of the mass. I was white, V was White, we were all white. Except I was dressed in my Toronto fashion as V had fun pointing out. She didn’t fit in either in her black leather jacket, thank god.
It’s an odd thing to think of, but I’m a visual person, and the 2 places are just SO freaking different. Even the buildings match at UWO, all just borning grey. There’s no diversity anywhere. (sorry for insulting your school… ya.. I’m a prick).
The rest of the weekend was spent with Homework, snuggling and talking. We watched Gattaca. Both of us have apparently been wanting to see it. And it deals with some of the issues in my thesis, so I was all for it. We also watched the Craft and shut it off near the end because we both hate the ending.
Also got more inspiration for thesis, and got most of the rough draft of my interim Report completed ahead of time.
Got my circuit schematics done for my media installation piece involving ‘space’. (As in volume). Now I just need to build, solder and pay for the $60 worth of materials; Cables, photo-resisters, etc. (I built the metal pillars on Friday morning, just need to pour the cement bases next Thursday. The room is lighted and the lights react with interaction of the user. Dimming or brightening with the motion of the users hands. More later…
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// Finland 2003
"That was when I realized. I asked myself could some of what these people be talking about actually be dangerous? And the best thing I can do is stay close to them, track what they are interested in and either hack it or try to confuse the spaces in which they operate". - Rob Van Kranenburg