Nice view from up here on the 49th floor. I'm relaxing with an iced latte and a window seat. Trying to pick out the places I know, but the city looks different from above compared to street level. I've always thought Tokyo's beauty... if it has any... is in it's details; those little surprises and small corners, which do still exist, although they are being hunted down and concreted over. But even from 49 floors up I'm not sure we can actually say the city is beautiful. It's just that we are surprised by the unusual perspective the altitude gives us, and perhaps simply the sheer size of the city and the number of buildings we can see from our vantage point. Usually you can see, how many buildings, about 10 or 20 from a street corner, perhaps more. But up here there are thousands, countless. It's all starting to look a little like the computer generated cities in the latest Star Wars movie. Perhaps Tokyo is a virtual city. Perhaps it only exists in our minds; we are not really here at all. I know a lot people here who are not really here... there is no here, here.
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
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Altitude.... moving up... moving on...
Hieght can give a person perspective... To know where they are and where they are going. The reality is that "The City" is here all the time... most people just don't take the time to move UP and see what's around them. People move in 3 dimensional space ... but we usually only use 2 of those dimensions... UP, for some reason... isn't always the first thought...STRAIGHT is.
When we leave the 2 dimensionality of our world.. we see where we are better... that's true of buildings...and true of our careers and our lives.
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