Ever since my flight to Austin I have been suffering from an uneasy feeling of disconnectivity. The eight hour flight was the longest I have been "offline" for a long time. Five hours into the flight I was sure i started feeling physical symptoms of withdrawal from the Internet. I was very unsettled, couldn't concentrate and was rather grumpy (ok, grumpier than I usually am!).
Forced disconnection with the grid made me realise how much of my life, both business and personal is played out online. Convinced that all would be back to normal as soon as I landed in the great US of A, I managed to struggle through the flight, iPhone in hand, even though it was little more than an expensive tv remote, for the duration. An even bigger surprise was just passed the immigration checkpoints. I had assumed (never been to America before!) that I would be walking into a wifi saturated zone, with companies fighting for every inch of space in their quest to dominate in the connectivity race! How wrong was I, with more physical space to cover it seems that there is even less overlapping connectivity than back home. What had started as irritating and mildly unsettling on the flight turned into a daily, stressful ritual of hunting down wifi enabled coffeshops or businesses so I could remain in contact and up to date with what was going on. Over the course of the two weeks I was there, the search for connectivity seemed to take up more and more of my "headspace", becoming like a addict cut off from their regular supply, I found myself looking in windows as I walked past, searching for the ever elusive "wifi here" signs, rather than taking in the awesome Austin scenery and enjoying my time off as a first time tourist in America. Choosing places to eat, based on the availability of wifi rather than the menu.Comments [0]
New York invasion by 8-bits creatures ! PIXELS is Patrick Jean' latest short film, shot on location in New York.
Written, directed by : Patrick Jean Director of Photograhy : Matias Boucard
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A test done on the 550D for @ernmander to compare with the camera he bought yesterday.
Footage intended to be as wobbly and jerky as possible to test for distortion in-camera.
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Wandering the corridors of SXSW we came upon a whole host of interesting people. Here are just a few, more to follow...
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Sittin in Houston Airport, waiting for the connecting flight to Heathrow. I guess this means an end to my SXSW journey. Its been a hard 12 days but fun at the same time. Some random thoughts as they come to me...
America (Texas, as I've never been anywhere else) is fucking big. You've seen it often enough on the movies, it's always hot.... Take sunscreen. A 16oz Strip Steak is more than one man should consume in a single sitting (even one as big as myself) Whatever they feed their cows in Texas, we need to feed our English cows.... Chicken Fried Steak is indeed steak covered in KFC style coating... There is too much information shoved into your brain over 4 days for you to assimilate... a quiet time is needed on your return to unravel it and make sense of it all so it can be of benefit, not just "noise". The earplugs given to you in your SXSWMusic swag bag are there for a reason... Use them. Lemmy is 49% motherfucker, 51% son of a bitch... If you take time to talk to people in the corridors you can learn as much from there as you can in the sessions... Old age means I would rather go for an awesome meal with friends than go out and party every night... Shuffleboard takes awesome skill... Sometimes it takes going half way across the world to find new friends close to home... After living and working together for nearly 20 years, 12 days away from my wife is too long... (I love you Julia!) You can buy an iPhone from a vending machine... No matter how many styles or colours of Stetson I tried on, I still look like a twat in a cowboy hat! When the man in the Boot shop says break them in a couple of hours at a time, don't ignore him and wear them on a 18 hour day.... pain insues. Jalapenos go with everything... I mean everything! Peanut brittle should never be made with salted peanuts... When the waiter at a restaurant says, "I'll get your change sir." What they really mean is "you don't want any change do you??" You can have a music festival take over the town with 15000 people with a minimal Police presence... McDonalds tastes just as shit here as it does back home... If you like tea, bring tea bags, America doesn't do tea! I will write up something proper about my experience over here but in the meantime, these random thoughts are the ones that have come to me during my 7 hour layover in Houston Airport.Comments [1]
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