IF IM TOO SLOW...

"If I'm too slow," the woman says, "my house will be buried in the sand."

Its my suggestion that you watch the clip below. It is a clip from a Japanese film called [Woman of the Dunes]. watch the clip paying close attention to all the ways things that are excessive in scale play a role with what is going on.

The idea that a single woman can control the fate of a house is interesting in itself. the idea of a house being burried at a time scale that relates closer to that of humans as well is interesting.


oh and I just noticed the quote that shows on the intro page.
"if they are afraid of the sand, tackle it scientifically." how wonderfully absurd. It reminds me a bit like, what is it jousting windmills?

I was listening to npr recently and they were taking about robots and the difficulty it is for them to walk in sand. in other words - sand is actually a really difficult problem, scientifically. see the link below for THAT VIDEO

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