The busyness of going (day 263)

Getting ready for the Oboro residency.  The thought of being away for almost three weeks is both exciting and frightening.  I've resigned myself to not being ready but being ready enough.  What I most look forward to is the spark of creativity coming back, from sputter to more like sparklers you put on a birthday cake.  Something happens when the day to day is interrupted by something other than tragedy or sickness.  Threads are lost and others find each other.  That's interesting and unpredictable.  It's too bad the physical constraints are such that these kinds of interruptions are necessary.  Don't think the irony of leaving such an amazing research lab to do creative work escapes me.

Meanwhile, in whatever pockets of calm I can find, and in whatever interesting company I find myself, I'm bouncing off ideas about crowds, the topic I will speak about at Smart Graphics.   The management of crowds is especially interesting to me right now and I realize I've been thinking about this for a long time.  I was even thinking about this during my PhD. But back then I was into local rules influencing morphology.   That's still interesting but there's the other way around too - the context influencing the local behaviour.  I'll be looking for a way to map the ideas and sources I've collected in the past few months into some sort of map. 

A song for this post.