Good friend Logan Porter is currently on a bike touring trip from Des Moines to Seattle. He is documenting the whole experience on his blog called Road Thrill. Definitely worth checking out and following along. (He also might head down to Portland after Seattle, so he might need a backyard to camp for a night.)
After thousands of years of erosion the petrified sand dunes in Arches NP have left some of the most amazing rock formations. So as in this digital world Descending Ashtray still stands. There is no wind and water in this world to erode the pictures or writing. Everything looks exactly as it did a year and half ago. Suspended in a vacuum of stored information. Where is it really? Somewhere among millions upon millions of Gigabytes of information. Suspended unchanging. There is only the delete and the update to affect its existence. With it we can delete and edit and reveal what ever we want to. Friendships, love affairs can be created and then erased at the push of a button. What can you trust? Things that are tangible, things that we can hold in our hand and touch. Or is it the information? Clogging, redirecting, shaping a new form of existence in the digital world.
Descending Ashtray last post 2/21/10
I am no stranger to “temporary” fixes. In fact, just yesterday I bungeed the battery into my 1970 F250′s rusted out battery holder, replacing the zip ties some other Jerry rigged. Once, in college, I delayed moving day so long that all the cardboard boxes in town had been snapped up by the well-prepared. Being resourceful, I packed up an apartment using nothing but plastic shopping bags. It’s about the right tool at the right time. ThereIFixedIt.com is a collection of some amazingly impromptu fixes.
A few months ago a publisher in Singapore contacted DA asking if they could use a picture of the watermill they found on this blog. We thought it would be cool as long a they credited Descending Ashtray. So today in the mail I received a copy of the textbook that they published.
A larger picture can be seen under the “Watermill” post
