Earlier this week I saw the animated film Waking Life. I missed it when it came out on the big screen several years ago. It's a very good story. I really liked the animated versions of the characters, who are, of course, real people.
I was hanging out on Potrero Hill a few days ago with a friend and he warns me, as he often has, that the next 10-15 years will go by very fast. I'm glad I'm reminded, but I have also been very lucky to be aware in the moment of the moment. Like walking around the Sony sound stages with a friend of mine. It started out with him recruiting me away from AOL, then I was recruiting him away from Sony, and in the end we decided we would just have to work together at our own start-up. It was a scene, walking around these magical places, magical because it's in these big boxes that movies are made. Blue screen scenes were set up. Dreams became film in those boxes. And here we were, Ian and I, walking around these dream boxes, with our own dreams. It was dreaming awake. And even more monumental, was that we were both aware of our dreaming awake as we did it.
Ian just twisted my arm to meet him and some other folks in Hawaii next month at this conference I was doing a little bit of work with. It will be fun to hang out and talk shop.
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