The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

ha, classic Andy!
That video was awesome. Think about how much of a BIG DEAL it is planning and getting excited and investing so much energy into an overseas holiday, then you see something like that and it puts it all in a weird (massive) perspective. Awesome find.

I should mention Andy emailed a link to this video all around the company so I know he is secretly impressed really. 🙂

I see all that complex, continuous and time pressured activity going on in the air and wonder why it takes a media agency 6 weeks to organise a comms plan which ends up looking almost identical to every other plan they’ve ever presented.

Some say there are only 7 storylines in the World, well I’m beginning to think there’s only 1 media plan.

Brilliant video and I like your observations and comments because they’re funny and interesting and show how there’s always a viewpoint to be made that can generate thoughts and ideas from others.

Lovely video Robert, I have sent it around the office claiming ownership for its discovery.

Slightly concerned you cannot see VA flights leaving/arriving before the competition but I have put that down to our relatively small fleet and the scale of the video. I suggest you do not say otherwise Robert.

I have slept on this so it’s a considered comment. Like you Rob I have looked at the plane since a small boy as both a piece of magic and a display of dynamics that looks impossible but makes sense when considering a fan in an Asian climate can blow a paper of a table. Increase the speed to 700 mph, make the paper the size of a Jumbo and then we see that air is pretty dense soupy stuff that is both capable of supporting a lot and is really slowing a lot down when it wants to move at high speed.

So thinking about data patterns like this really just says to me that I can make pretty pictures out of global data for rectal cancer to quote Scamps Blog yesterday so that you know this next part isn’t said with bitterness.

I see travel on planes using fossil fuels as symptomatic of our addition to speed. I loathe flying because it’s just sucking up the resources of the planet faster and faster that’s why business travel is so deadly for us. The faster we work the faster we suck up the resources the quicker we bring forward our own demise and no data visualization for that can be more important than what it means.

So that’s a bit of an arsy comment disagreeing with you but only because I can’t be arsed to do it on my own blog.

If I was a plane carrier brand I’d be doing what I think the energy brands should ALL be doing.

Making, not waiting for a business model with every weapon at our disposal including government and social collective dynamics that charges MORE for LESS.

Hard but not impossible.

I haven’t read any other comments but I will do otherwise the Thai Pornstar I met last night sulking at the table eating pizza alone will just hate me. I kid you not 🙂

Ha Ha Ha. Because he’s hung like a donkey you bastard!

She’s beautiful and evil if you want the precis. Just what I deserve in either the short or long term so who knows.

Now then with regard to speed I think it links into immediacy which is why I went to sleep with the subject spinning around in my head and woke up with a bit more clarity because I commented on it over here before I made my way to you.

http://tinyurl.com/dnzksg

I don’t have the heart to write posts about this stuff as much as I do in the comments because frankly after losing my Twitter account I know that it’s always been about the great conversation and this place is the best of the best.

Hopefully I’ll get that Prada post done but what the fuck those guys hired you for I’ve no idea. Prada is the sort of shit only gays or divine women wear such Thai porn stars of unspeakable beauty performing stuff that is never done on camera. Any serious wannabe anthropologist would have to know about that before writing about food, sex and money (info is free)

Planning. It’s a lifestyle not a job as I like to say. But what would you know about that when you’re always high in the sky doing business. Or was that me…I’m confused.

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Porky Prada.

You’ve nailed it! Genius. How do you do it?

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I think the video is great but I would be very interested to know how many of those “dots” were running at full passenger capacity.

I think the question Charles poses about whether the video is information made beautful or pointlessness made pretty is down to the eyes of the recipient. I’m quite positive if I was to show some of the images we create to communicate with our technical teams the majority would think it was the work of an amateur artist but to the right audience it transforms into technological inspiration but I’d be happy to change my view if Charles could pass on any tips for picking up a Thai pornstar. 🙂

Lets be honest Mr M, if anyone gets upgraded they’re happy – and if they’re upgraded to 1st [or Upperclass] – then they’d be as happy as pigs in shit even if they were flying Aeroflot … but I do get your point.

As for being sick of flying … I am beyond sick of it but then I remember I could be working as a bank teller in West Bridgford [or an ASDA checkout operator, which is probably where I belong] and I shut the hell up.

The video features the flights of all large aircraft over a 24 hour period so yes, it will include frieght planes as well as the one Lauren took to say ‘Hi’ to her friends in the UK/EU.

To continue with Charles and Lauren’s ‘instant gratification’ point, should all international holidays be banned given in many cases, there are perfectly acceptable holiday facilities in their own country?

Alain de Bottom has a great doco on this [The Art of Travel] … but the question is, where does environmental consideration start and end?

and add to that the irony that we’re making friends from all over the globe so much more easily, thanks to this new fandangled interweb thing and the desire to meet f2f that goes with it. awesome. solution? teleporters, obviously. the deconstruction and reunification of organic particles will save us all.

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and add to that the word shit. and timing.

and “how” “does” “never” “work for you”