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Akihabara, 2006

Lines leading up an Akihabara staircase to a maid cafe above, and through a São Paulo station below.

What do the properties of the line tell you about what to expect at the destination? Or whether there is a destination? What if these lines were ethereal? A digital flow made visible by your personal communication device, like having a radio tuned to static, walking into a signal and following. What would the flow communicate to encourage you to seek out its destination?

Sao Paulo, 2006

Writing from Tokyo | August 22, 2006 | Permalink


Comments

>What would the flow communicate to encourage you to seek out its destination?<

Posters of scantily clad women along the way...^^

Posted by: Kim Pierro at August 22, 2006 11:06 AM

Actually only noticed the line leaving the cafe. Took the elevator up.

Posted by: Jan at August 23, 2006 12:49 PM

In your pictures the lines may be destinations and static. Their beauty shares responsibility with such a fabulous idea yet you document a call for exchange indicative of the Future Perfect, 'as though' transcendental destiny lies just east of here;

Posted by: Erik at August 24, 2006 8:07 AM