I really enjoyed this week’s reading (Bill Viola “Will There Be Condominiums in Data Space?”) particularly how it floated out at a higher altitude. I could appreciate the discussion of technological details such as nondestructive editing systems (which we now have in apps like finalcut pro and imovie) and Aspen Street project (which sounds an awful lot like google maps street view!), but what i really liked here were the threads of philosophical/spiritual issues:
memory giving meaning to life
how we see only the “narrow slit of now” — a beautifully crafted phrase for present moment
the significance that editing brings to bear
the issues of context in shaping meaning
the responsibility of meaning lying within us, not the tools
the importance of turning back toward ourselves
the development of inward (self) over the development of the outward (non self)
and yeah, everything IS better with a porcupine story thrown in! 😉