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VIEWING ALL POSTS FOR: FEBRUARY 2005

Friday, February 25, 2005

2:04 PM
Posted by jodi rose

still snowy altho finally worked out the heater was on a timer system so much warmer inside now.
happy birthday sophea and philippa!
and happy birthday mum for tomorrow xxxx
going for lush relaxation treatment at the sanctuary tonight with ms p. and can't wait for my first kallio woodfired sauna in helsinki.
wandered around with mark m yesterday checking out fabulous shoes at the poste mistress, the reading room at british museum, and past bloomsbury square on way to the horse hospital. sadly it was closed with no event until sat, but found a warm italian deli ristorante out of the sleet and waited there for ben to arrive. couldn't entice them back to my flat in marleybone with risotto and trashy teen dvd (yay philippa!) they have very highbrow taste those arty boys. more into stalker and kundun and indian food in euston. probably good as i collapsed by 9pm again. stayed warm and cosy this morning reading trash novel, time out essential before the very intense very high energy month ahead. only 6 minutes of my free debenhams internet 10 minutes with purchase over a pound - neighbours on the telly, all very like home. yet not.

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

4:53 PM
Posted by jodi rose

am fading fast. combination of jetlag - despite the $6,000 worth of airspace having an entire row of 4 seats all to myself for the whole journey, managed to sleep about 14 hours of the 24 - but still tired; and severe climatic shock. it's freezing yes and actually snowing. dreadful. don't know how people live here. all my romantic fantasies of northern european winters gone in about 10 minutes. although if i could work out how to turn the heater on it might be a little more bearable.
very weird and displaced. had fun in the supermarket though, wandered the marlyebone high street in a daze this morning. invited out to a goth cabaret tonight by mr m, but am feeling too phased to contemplate anything more than getting home and cooking risotto with the mushrooms and sweet potato i managed to hunt down.
had a lovely chat with very friendly, sweet (and cute) steward, who gave me cups of tea and orange juice during the night. called me smiley. he worked in a coal mine before qantas, and planning to be a fireman next. his wife wasn't thrilled about it, but seems to have come round now he'll be home more.
chatted about my bridge project, gave him a cd and he came back with not one but two bottles of french champagne. lovely. so even tho i didn't manage the upgrade - altho asked both at check-in and the gate, but as the plane was practically empty - by 200 seats - they really couldn't indulge me. next time - am on a mission for the life to which I would like to become accustomed.

speaking of which, still seeking a wealthy bridge enthusiast/arts patron. maybe I'll find one in london.

what else - the sydney launch on thursday was fabulous, thanks to everyone who came along, to alex and lanfranchis and jesse and virtual artists and joyce, john and brent for bringing your wonderful creative work to the evening. met my blogfan jane - hi! very cool to have worlds intersecting. and at the end of the night mum and dad still there (which was kind of bizarre as they hadn't seen each other since my uni graduation in about 1997) helped clean up and deliver me home with the mixing deck - thanks to simon for that. he was apparently quite impressed, industrial electronica he thought. indeed it is. dad commented on the juxtaposition of angelic tones and gritty industrial sounds. and i managed to stay relatively calm and relaxed and enjoy celebrating with friends and family, which is what it's all about. no point doing all this work and creating something crazy and amazing if you can't share it with people you love. realised most of whom had actually never heard any of my work - it's been an idea and a website for so long. not any more, this year is all about product. bring it on!

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

9:44 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Yes, the bridges are streaming!!

Sydney CD Launch
Singing Bridges : Live Stream

If you can't get there, tune in:

http://www.lanfranchis.com/live

20:30 - 23:30 Sydney Thursday 17th Feb

read the fine print:

[the link will be inactive until the stream starts
these times are approximate!]

20:30 Joyce Hinterding on magnetic fields
21:30 Jodi Rose on bridges
22:15 Brent Clough eclectic DJ

Helsinki 11:30 Thurs
Berlin 10:30
London 09:30
New York 04:30

Huge thanks for making this happen, server space and incredibly generous support and enthusiasm to:

Jesse & Virtual Artists Pty Ltd
http://www.va.com.au/

Alex Davies
www.schizophonia.com

Lanfranchi's Memorial Discoteque
www.lanfranchis.com

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

9:41 PM
Posted by jodi rose

well have to eat my words now. making so many connections with people in sydney that it's going to be hard to leave. just when I start getting into being here. trying to get my head around that. altho as sophea pointed out, it's good to leave from a position of strength. and have something to come back to.

phil's lovely sister aroha is moving into my room, have a packed weekend of fun socialising arranged for london - mr mutton aka mark mclaren will be loitering on a bridge with intent to stream wireless cables [it makes sense if you read it with the right accents] - just ben was having a sunday morning cuppa but offered support and back-up in any form needed - and the fabulous pete gomes who does gorgeous chalk drawings of shadows with gps data - have to check it out websites below - offered to hold a laundry disco or dinner party or both. then ms lizzie is having me for tea on sunday and of course the lush goddess herself philippa will be back from zagreb on friday, taking me for a relaxation treatment at the sanctuary that evening, and being generally fabulous.

it's amazing how much fun you can have with next-to no money, on the other side of the world. [although of course I'm incredibly grateful for the many many forms of abundance in my life] weekend in sydney would be - stagger to the coffee shop, get the paper, go into the abc and shut myself in a dark room for 12 hours, walk home late at night, sleep, get up sunday morning and think - really should try to relax, then get anxious, give in and go back to work.

although I'm feeling astonishingly stress free this week, considering.
decided that there is a finite amount I can actually get done in... 6 days... and anything else will have to wait.

had a great meeting with densil cabrera and michael bates at syd uni architecture acoustic research lab - very exciting. they're keen to help me with some kind of informal artist research position - going in to chat with the research students on friday. showed me all the fabulous old equipment inherited from defunct departments - rooms of Bruel & Kjoer tone generators, accelerometers with bakelite dials and polished wooden boxes... my god I was in sound geek heaven.
also very cool plans for 72 speaker 64 channel surround sound facility - looking for things to put in it. had all kinds of wild ideas - could realise the global symphony with really funky spatialisation - meeting people who can help me work through these ideas and make things happen is really really really cool.

like the fabulous alex davies, gorgeous sound artist who is running lanfranchis - the venue where my launch is on thursday - and when I asked, can you stream from here? said, hmmm, I've been meaning to set that up - sure, we can do it! I love that. he does beautiful sound work too, exploring all kinds of things that I'm far too incoherent to go into right now - but check out his website. http://schizophonia.com

what else - oh yes, news of the day in fact of the year.

Received my official invitation today for bridge guard residency in Sturovo.
Yes I will be the Bridge Guard for Maria Valeria bridge from nov - feb.
How fantastic. Started planning a tailored guards uniform with peaked cap and bridge logo. Can't wait to spend four months in a small town, during winter, with nothing else to do but report on the bridge, work with kids, meet people, connect with local communities and write. Bliss.
And will even get a snowy xmas - apparently the skiing in slovakia is amazing. could be time to learn!

Had a great conversation with the always inspiring Joyce Hinterding. She will be there tomorrow night playing the magnetic fields in the space with her antennae. Talked me through some performance anxiety - it's alright to be a beginner, you have to start somewhere. It is only my fourth performance ever. And the first not in scandinavia. what's with that?
She was there when I first had the bridge idea, and encouraged me to go for it, not worry about what the sounds were like, there's no good or bad, right or wrong - the very fact of there being sounds, listening to and collecting them is what's interesting. She reckons remixing the bridges is the way to go live - otherwise people get caught up in cause and effect - my alternate plan to play a full scale bridge model with sensors and samples in the wires - lucky as its way beyond my ken. although surely can find a willing sculptor/engineer/soundartist to help me realise it.

Discovered arup engineering sound lab today - listen to your building as it's being designed. Going to contact them and find out if you can listen to your bridge as well :)

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

11:45 AM
Posted by jodi rose

I'd like to share this fabulous diatribe on the occasion of my cd launch in melbourne. From the brilliant Justin Clemens on why this is not sound art:

I'm very excited to have been asked to help launch Jodi Rose's extremely strange Singing Bridges CD tonight. Although some of the flyers for tonight have billed me as "bridge philosopher extraordinaire," before Jodi told me about her possibly pathological idea about 7 years ago, I cared almost nothing about bridges, and knew even less. What - at least for me - is notable about her project is how much it's forced me to attend to some of the weird features of bridges, as well as their extraordinary significance in the history of warfare, commerce, philosophy and art. Just think about how many common phrases turn on bridges ("We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," "Don't burn your bridges," "bridging loan," etc.), or how many films turn on a relationship to bridges (e.g., "Bridge on the River Kwai," "A bridge too far," or even the recent "The Ister"). And in the history of philosophy, many of the greatest philosophers of the modern world have made bridges a key element in their work: Friedrich Nietzsche ("Man is a fragile footbridge thrown across the abyss"), Martin Heidegger, and the recently-deceased Jacques Derrida. In the history of modern art, we find Marcel Duchamp's famous boutade about American art: "The only works of art America has given the world are its plumbing and its bridges." Modern suspension bridges - such as the Brooklyn Bridge or the Golden Gate - are favoured items on postcards, adding to the thrill of the Pont Neuf or the Bridge of Sighs. Poets love bridges (at least, they love the metaphor of the bridge): hence the Brooklyn Bridge has been written about by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marianne Moore, Jack Kerouac, Hart Crane, and many others. And since we're talking poetry, if you're going to top yourself, why not do it by leaping from a bridge, just like the great Paul Celan? And apparently certain advances in modern technology and engineering have been driven by the difficulties involved in suspension bridge design....

What I find even more striking is that, despite histories of the suspension bridge claiming that the rope across the river has been around forever, that major suspension bridges have been in operation in China since the third century, and in barbarian Europe since the thirteenth, that steel suspension bridges are one of the wonders of the contemporary world, I'm shocked that no-one has thought of recording bridge sounds in just this way before.

If you'll permit me a short diatribe - and you're going to have to - I have to say that I really hate the concept of "sound art," which is a degraded modernist ideological category become bureaucratic funding designation. As far as I'm concerned, something's either art or it's not - and I think that Jodi's singing bridges are unquestionably art. Why? Well, I think her project has involved the following operations:

i) Jodi's had a genuinely interesting and unusual idea, that of recording the sounds that suspension bridges around the world make, from Vietnam to Finland to USA;
ii) she's worked like a dog to record all of these bridges, over an extended period of time, having to solve or resolve all the problems peculiar to such a project, whether of funding, travelling, interviewing, recording, etc.;
iii) in the process, she's brought together or connected an entire range of people, things, and situations that would otherwise have remained disconnected (e.g., other artists, engineers, tour operators, sound recorders, weirdo enthusiasts, academics, patrons, bureaucrats, etc.);
iv) she's thereby made-perceptible a state-of-affairs that people have hitherto overlooked, ignored or dismissed, and thereby encouraged them to think and rethink what they may have thought they already knew about bridges;
v) crystallised and disseminated all of this work in a variety of forms (e.g., by website, the ABC radio program, exhibitions, and CDs).

So, all these factors together smack of art: it's a good idea; hard work; connecting the unconnected; making you see what you've over-looked; transmission. So I urge you all to log onto the website, listen over and over again to the ABC show, and buy as many copies as you can carry of Jodi's CDs....visit the bridges! listen to their sounds!

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

11:45 AM
Posted by jodi rose

The Bridges

Wind blows the ribbon tighter before the bridges.
The sky grated the deepest blue
along the pilings.
Here and there our shadows
change places in the light.
Pont Mirabeau...Waterloo Bridge...
How can the names bear
carrying the nameless?
Moved by the lost ones
that faith could not carry,
the drums awaken in the river.
All bridges are lonely.
And fame is just as dangerous for them
as for us, though we think
we feel the tread of stars
on our shoulders.
Yet no dream arches
over the slope of our mortality.
It's better to live for the riverbanks,
crossing from one to the other,
watching all day for the chosen one
to cut the ribbon.
For he reaches the sun shears
wrapped in fog; and should the light blind him,
the fog will cushion his fall.

Ingeborg Bachmann

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

11:39 AM
Posted by jodi rose

have decided to disconnect my people-pleasing particle. even the girl in local north fitzroy organic cafe gave me grief about not going in earlier to say hi. had an overseas friend berating me about the amount of time I spend writing in my web diary - presumably I should be corresponding with him more - and I've really just got to the point of saying : actually if you're not contributing to the joy and love and laughter in my life, you can go play somewhere else. Really am very exhausted by having so many people needing something from me - especially attention and engagement. I'm finding a perverse enjoyment in relating to someone I'm in conversation with about the launch this week, who never actually replies to my emails - normally that would bug me, but it's kind of a relief in itself as am suffering chronic email fatigue - and then we inevitably run into each other in a cafe, gig, bar or street party whenever really we need to have the conversation. I'm liking f2f contact. It's so much more present and real than endless text based conversations - which are certainly a form of communication in themselves, but really there is a definite need for physical presence in your life and engagements with people.

Which is why sophea and I are trying so hard to get people over to helsinki for particle wave, so we can all play and experiment with radio together. working across the net just doesn't quite resonate the same way. feels like everyone is a little bit over it. we need to find new ways to make our communities in everyday life - and it can be hard when the people who engage and inspire you creatively and intellectually are so geographically disparate. I dearly love my close friends here, but still find their response to my work takes the form of it being more of a party novelty that makes them feel cool, than something to engage with on an intellectual level. of course there are exceptions, and thanks to the wonderful visiting finns I've been introduced to lots more interesting and fun media artists in sydney and melbourne, who could potentially become friends also. but we're all so busy... and going off to london and helsinki in a week doesn't leave much time for developing relationships. oh well, there's always next time.

really having to work hard at getting myself into take-off mode. haven't reached that level of speed and activity yet, still recovering from the abc residency and getting CD finished. could have kept working on it, but at some point you have to say - this is it, get it out there and walk away.
can't even think about getting on the plane - which is a shame as it is really exciting, but at the moment all I have is a list of about a months work to condense into a week. a couple of things are going to have to go. but they're all essential. oh well, better get to it. altho this is essential too, both as an archive for me to refer to later, and a kind of therapeutic download of where I'm at.
it's funny, I had someone interview me last week and he said: I feel like I know you. from reading the web diary. which is great, it's a testament to the individual voice that people do feel they know you.
but can I just say - you actually don't. you know a few things about me, some random meandering and thoughts - but you don't really know me. just like I don't know the author of a book or song, even though I feel they've connected directly with me. it's kind of got to be reciprocal. quite weird to be in this semi-public arena. a girl is coming over in a few minutes to buy a cd from me for her boyfriend for valentines day. anyone who feels like sending a note of adoration please go right ahead!

Monday, February 14, 2005

10:24 AM
Posted by jodi rose

hyvää ystävänpaiva!!!

CD RELEASE TODAY
SINGINGBRIDGES VIBRATIONS : VARIATIONS
AVAILABLE NOW

SONICARTSTAR.SINGINGBRIDGES.NET

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Monday, February 14, 2005

10:06 AM
Posted by jodi rose

more or less.
there are pictures to go with all these but one day when I have a spare few hours will update them. for now though it's all about to get very intense again - aiming to get 10,000 words of masters thesis written in the next week before leaving the country. argh. I have many more words than that at my disposal - still a matter of order and editing and comprehension. what is it I wanted to say again? yes, all that.
time in melbourne was a little strange - before wed launch was hyper, anxious and strung out; during was a complete nervous wreck and after was so deflated and depressed could barely move or speak - someone referred to it as a holiday, and then in response to my look of blank amazement amended that to working holiday. yeah, without the holiday part....
had a great conversation with the erudite fabulous justin clemens, who gave a fantastically witty and poignant speech at my launch - talking about why it's not sound art, it's 'just' art - anyway he completely understood my feeling of deflation. Waking up the morning after his book launch, he told me the sense of complete humiliation and shame was overwhelming - why did all those trees die for me to release this into the world? Most people are all upbeat and positive when you do something like this, they tell you it's great, you're doing well - I totally cherish and need those rare voices who can say - yes, you are insane, this is utterly horrific and there's really no need for it! oh that's right, another one this week. I've learned my lesson and it's going to be very very low key. Hoping to feel a moment of joy and celebration in the process - hasn't quite materialised yet. Emer pointed out that any major project ending will have that sense of anti-climax - you're not special, she told me - which is also good to remember. Just another day at the office.

can't quite comprehend where life is at right now. It's a little insane.
from the outside all looks fun and exciting I'm sure.

there are huge prints of regular everyday women dressed in the wonder woman suit on display in the outside of melbourne town hall. every time I went past them it made me smile - yes, we are all wonder woman!
also very cool ads in the tram stops by state govt about fad dieting - lines like: 'since fad dieting, all my friends have commented on how much energy I've lost' and 'fad dieting helped me go from a size 14 to a 12 and back to a 16. thanks fad dieting'. Great to have some positive role model reinforcements for women in those very public spaces that usually advertise lollypop head gaunt celebrities and models which make the majority of women feel insecure and unhappy about themselves. no matter how much feminist training you have.

Thursday, February 10, 2005

10:44 AM
Posted by jodi rose

man am I glad that's over.
the cd is launched into wherever it will go....
had some lovely people come along last night, it was a great vibe, thanks to everyone. really enjoyed having people come up and introduce themselves who I've only met via email, great seeing all my gorgeous melbourne friends - just wish I had been much less anxious and could enjoy it.
Also better organised - thanks to kent and steve and tim and ben and annalee for their wonderful performances/visuals/dj - sorry I didn't have you all on earlier when the room was packed - note to self arrange timing better next time. people seemed to enjoy themselves, and be genuinely into the CD - jonathon my fabulous designer - web, cd cover - without whom I would probably still be moaning about life into my decaf soy latte in some fitzroy cafe and dreaming of recording bridges some day... there aren't words or money to every thank you enough!!!! - anyway, jonathon said he's been enjoying working to the CD - especially audio_z - yay Lithuanian electronica!!!
now time to dash off to professional development forum mobile journeys thing - now I've started this networking jag I just can't seem to get enough. Especially of those cool dlux people - you're ace.
Oh and you can buy the CD online NOW :)
sonicartstar.singingbridges.net yes I will get a new domain name someday - when I sell a few more CD's maybe ;)

Wednesday, February 9, 2005

4:56 PM
Posted by jodi rose

happy chinese new year!
tim who is doing visuals tonight tells me that whatever you're doing on chinese ny you'll be doing much more of that year - think the same applies to regular christian calendar ny too - but very auspicious to be holding my very first CD launch tonight. Yay! more bridge singing!!!!
Just been in setting up the venue, a little bit anxious about a. people coming, b. the performers being happy and c. people enjoying themselves and the evening. But it's all going to run smooth and beautiful and everyone will have a fabulous night.
Must go now and type up final running order then change into fancy new skirt from huntergatherer. nz designer, love them.
xxx jr

Monday, February 7, 2005

1:04 PM
Posted by jodi rose

in melb under cover at abc southbank. guerilla sound artist operation underway.

really enjoyed listening to trashy love songs on the flight down - chatting with roger mills last week for how much I liked hearing nelly furtado - 'I'm like a bird' in the bar on top of the novy most bridge, bratislava - of course we won't be playing that pop on furthernoise, he said, but agreed it was fun once in a while. I'd recently written about it for brandon labelle's radio memory project as it was one of those songs in my head the summer I left melbourne and moved back up to sydney to try and get this bridge trip off the ground. there was a lovely sense of circularity to then hearing it on top of the bridge when I was finally on the trip to record them.

Still on pop culture, was very excited to see concept of 'vibrating at a higher frequency' make it onto the OC - [which I was watching on video while packing 500 CD's into 250 covers - I liked the juxtaposition of esoteric and trash going on there] - reading about exactly that concept in the Sufi book 'the mysticism of sound and music' a few months ago.

Definitely trying to tune myself to a higher frequency. Mostly it's going well, am engaged with so many fabulous people doing great work in their various fields, having really energising interactions and lots of fun. But one or two people on a lower vibration have slipped through recently - it's interesting when your public persona shifts a little, and people stop seeing you for who you are, and only notice what they imagine you can do for them. It's a fairly new experience for me, not having had this level of access to resources or bandwidth or networks before. Mostly I'm around people who are so genuinely passionate about the work they're doing, that it's really exciting to find ways to help facilitate that - when someone is really pushy and obviously out to further their own agenda, all the hairs on my neck stand on end, and hackles rise.
And hey, after 10 years and 10's of thousands of dollars doing my own thing, off my own bat, and developing the profile and good will that I have through ongoing reflection and constantly striving to be a better, more giving and positive person, I'm damned if i let someone walk all over that.

Boundaries. I'm starting to see why people have an entourage - it's really exhausting putting all your energy into getting things out there and then dealing with peoples expectations of you. No wonder I stayed hidden for so long. You really need good people around you as a buffer zone. They are out there, but yet again I'm running around doing most of this on my own. Looking forward to helsinki, having the wonderful miss static and kate to play with.

This week is exciting, the culmination of many years dreaming and getting out in the world to create this crazy scheme. Although having the worst case of - 'how am I getting away with this, when are they going to realise I'm a fake?' - ahhh you're having an attack of the pretendies - said Anna last night, a wonderful woman and circus performer who worked in las vegas with cirque de soleil after many years with circus oz and as a kid with the flying fruit flies - everyone gets that feeling, she reminded me.

Once I stop trying to organise an 'event' and publicise it - kind of into the viral marketing idea, which seems to be working. It goes against the grain to be trying to get media attention - very much a go with the flow philosophy, if people notice then great, if not, well at least my friends will be there.

Time to get back to celebrating this amazing journey and having actually finished the CD. It's my party and I'll run it how I want to. See you at Loop 23 meyers place melbourne Wednesday 9th feb 8pm. xx

Thursday, February 3, 2005

11:40 PM
Posted by jodi rose

The fame star is shining brightly tonight.
1. Had a call from Ben saying, you're in the paper - and there I was, in Syd Morning Herald SPIKE column. Enjoyed the question he posed:

Over the top

Sometimes those creative types take things a bit too far. Fascinated with the sounds created by bridge structures, Australian sound artist Jodi Rose travels the world listening to and recording the "music" of suspension and cable bridges.

Jodi's compositions create a global symphony of bridges and are being released on a CD called Lover's Leap for Valentine's Day.

Her musical journey began with her recording of the Glebe Island Bridge in 1994.

In 2002 she embarked on a "spiritual odyssey" to discover the secret music of concrete. Rose listened to and recorded the Golden Gate and Brooklyn bridges in the US; Matinkaari Bridge, Helsinki; Millennium Bridge, London; My Thuan Bridge, Mekong Delta, Vietnam (her favourite); and Novy Most Bridge, Bratislava, Slovakia.

"Bridges are like giant harps played by the wind. Tuning in to the cables you can hear a secret language, which I believe is the voice of the bridge," she explains.

Spike is interested in what the future holds for Rose. Perhaps a symphony based on the sound of car alarms? Or a percussion work based on the sound of tiles falling off the Opera House?"

...and wrote back to say I was very intrigued by the idea and contemplating an endurance performance based on waiting for the tiles to fall. Also pointed out the CD is called: Singing Bridges Vibrations : Variations - the phrase 'lovers leap' was a bad valentines day pun. Although I've already had an email from someone wanting to buy the CD, evidently the new name is working!

2. Lisa called to say the episode of Neighbours where my project is mentioned was on air tonight.
Sky gets a letter from friend overseas, who talks about being involved with this really cool art project, with a girl who records the sound of bridges. Sadly a few other characters were talking over the top of it - but hey, I read in the Age only a month or so ago that once you really know you've made it when you (or your subculture) gets onto neighbours. So there I am.

3. Media artist gallery opening crawl tonight, started at Rosyln Oxley with the Japanese dot lady (can't remember her name but the dot paintings were $75,000) and had my photo taken by a roving photographer while talking to Kathy Cleland. You never know, may make it into the Sunday social pages yet. That would be two sound artists in the past month - could be some kind of record.

better go now and get some beauty sleep, photographer from the courier is coming in the morning. and hopefully 500 CD's will also arrive on my doorstep. Got the covers yesterday - oh my god they are sooooo beautiful. Now just need to sort out distribution - mysterious missing CD hope will arrive soon at my first choice and we can make a deal.

Tuesday, February 1, 2005

11:19 PM
Posted by jodi rose

another gorgeous stormy evening. took my faux finnish friends on the ferry to luna park, which sadly was closed but the ride to woolwich and back far more exciting. magnificent electrical lightning across the city, and the mysterious old ship yards and brightly lit cliffs very intriguing.
then found our way up to 'orbit' the most fabulous bar in sydney, designed by harry seidler I believe in australia square. lounged about drinking lemongrass and ginger tea while the city spun below us, and watched as the storm came closer and lightning all around us.
a very welcome relaxing moment after all day sending out press releases and energy for the upcoming launch. So many bits and pieces to collate, new website being designed, it's very exciting and equally exhausting. Had a minor meltdown and had to lie on the couch with an eye mask on while talking through particle wave framework and expectations with sophea. We've developed a really lovely working relationship, it makes such a difference to have someone in your intense obsessive world, but coming from a slightly different angle, who gets where you're at and influences where you're going.* which at the moment is helsinki. yay. the boys are a bit over it there, but hey they've been living through the winters for a few years now and I just breeze in when the ice starts melting.
*maybe that's why people have relationships. but they never seem to be that satisfying. I love bridges. That's all I know right now. Good night.