Oh my god! I’ve got a whole week off. What on earth am I going to do with myself? I mean I’ve got lots of forms and bills to sort out, and no clean clothes and a flat like a pig-sty and I actually still have some work hanging over my head which I’m going to try and get done tomorrow morning so I don’t have to think about it any more (although I have a sneaking suspicion it’ll still be with me at the end of the week). I’m also going to Norfolk for my brother’s eighteenth birthday (which is so weird and exciting and strange) and four hours after work has ended, I’ve already got things tumbling out of my head almost uncontrollably. Two site sketches down on paper, plans for redesigns, bits of jottings taking shape, social software things. And I even have this urge to go out and get drunk and maybe go dancing or something. I never feel like that. I wonder where I can find nice fun people to play with…
One thing that I probably won’t have time to do is to think around the landmark east project. It seems to me that those of us with insane creative web-building urges should be able to contribute to something like that in some way. Maybe something using ubiquitous computing, or feeding in contributions to the public and turning into something physical and manifest automatically. Or maybe some kind of collaborative architecture experience – like that font project that was around a few years back, where individuals came to a page and turned one pixel on or off, trying gradually to assemble some kind of alphabetic glyph. Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could create a structure, a landmark, a monument like that? Chunk by chunk, brick by brick, curve by curve… Together. The manifestation of a people.