Psymonetta Isnoful ([info]psymonetta) wrote,
@ 2007-08-12 12:23:00
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The Sponge
I've always admired the sponge: a colony that is greater than the sum of its individual parts, that can be still, filter and absorb that which is nourishing from its environment, then spits it's semen into the current.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge

Sometimes, i feel like much more than the one creature that is observable on the surface. Do you know I am watching, filtering and absorbing?

My eyes are swimming. I'm also happy to be reminded that cryptic musings are meaningless unless you project them outward. I've been quietly spending far too much time amusing myself, as of late.

Four hours was not enough time for Paul Laffoley. Sometimes, I think I would gladly suffer Asperger's syndrome, just to possess that level of focus. High functioning autism is the wave of the future.

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[info]melody_rossiter
2007-08-12 08:09 pm UTC (link)
:P

We should finally get together to get that corset made up in November. You game?

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[info]psymonetta
2007-08-12 08:10 pm UTC (link)
Yes, yes indeed.

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[info]goatlove
2007-08-12 08:10 pm UTC (link)
I threw in the towel after 3 1/2 hours. He's certainly got some genius informing his work, but I couldn't make heads or tails of a good portion of his explanations of it. Sometimes it seemed that a lot of it (like his time travel machine) is an outrageous put-on, and other times he seemed deadly serious.

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[info]psymonetta
2007-08-13 02:37 am UTC (link)
You know, I knew you were there but couldn't find you.

The time machines are more cognitive than physical. The impression I get is that they build up an energetic gestalt that allows the consciousness of the persons involved to be projected forward and backward by using the levoger to distort time-space.

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[info]goatlove
2007-08-13 04:31 pm UTC (link)
Funny how we seem to end up at many of the same events yet have not actually physically seen each other.

I had not previously heard of Paul Laffoley nor seen his work, so all of it was a little alien to me. I thought it ironic that he kept mentioning Buckminster Fuller, because I kept thinking to myself that his work looked like something Fuller would have created had he taken his life a slightly different tack. And likewise, much of Fuller's stuff just makes me scratch my head. They both appear to have created entire worlds that require no small degree of immersion to understand.

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[info]psymonetta
2007-08-13 08:39 pm UTC (link)
It takes a while to get a good handle on Laffoley's vocabulary. Luckily, for us, his condition (the Asperger's) lends itself more to very lengthy focused exploration of a few subjects, so the lexicon is blessedly finite.

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[info]ashley_y
2007-08-12 08:44 pm UTC (link)
I was thinking about driving down just for Laffoley.

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[info]psymonetta
2007-08-13 02:39 am UTC (link)
That's primarily why I was there. Although I did get to hang out with Joe, James and Wes, which made my Thursday, Friday and Saturday a little brighter.

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