TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Friday, December 10, 2004

3:09 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Drinking champagne at Quay waiting for Ben's birthday to start. A few weeks ago now, but it was such a lovely moment thought it needed a photo.

It's very lovely having this medium of connection to the world, I get the sweetest emails from people who stumble randomly across the website. Had two recently from people who had thought of doing something with bridge sounds - then found this work and decided it was already happening. Although they are both recruited onto the international bridge operatives team. My favourite for this week is from Bart, in Belgium, who has decided to go back and read the travel journal from the beginning.
When you get up to here - Hi Bart!!

I think this is a compliment! - something about free form flow of consciousness writing - it's a bit scary having people read stuff that you write when you're so in the moment, but that's the framework I set for myself, and it's good practice for keeping on moving.

He says: "I wasn't sure what to expect from it, but it makes for some fun reading! Kind of reads like Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road', if you will. Lot's of stuff going on, loads of people coming in and plenty of dashing from one place to another. And it's just amazing to read how you keep ending up meeting
people you know, no matter where you are. And if you don't, you always seem to bump into people with the same interests as yours. I mean, what are the odds? But in your case it seems almost natural."

Well, I have to confess some of those meetings are kind of engineered - I mean, if you hang out going to experimental sound and media art festivals and gigs, these are the people you're going to find! others are genuinely random, that's the beauty and joy of being in the world. I had some nice synchronicity this week - head is all foggy and vague with summer flu, but if I ever remember what it was, will tell you!
Must go now, have a plane to catch... well, in February anyway.
xx jr