Reading Geology
- 08:44 AM – From our hotel window, we spotted a dead pixel on the sphere. Rumor has it that this happens often, and a technician will rappel from the top to replace it. There’s no footage of pixel replacement on YouTube—maybe it happens in the middle of the night.
- 11:07 AM – Seeing the mountains while driving out to Red Rock Canyon (outside of Las Vegas) reminded me that the first creative thing I ever got into was photography, probably largely inspired by this location.
- 12:01 PM – Would be interesting to learn how to “read” geology (similar to how someone can read sheet music). A trained eye can look up and down, and recount a detailed history of a canyon dating back millions of years (with far more detail than “this use to be an ocean”—which on it’s own is a wild insight) ... Architecture has a similar function—you can read the past values and abilities of a society by looking at the buildings that have been layered into a place over centuries.
- 01:15 PM – There are a few reasons why depth perception is skewed when you’re hiking out west in rocks (compared to out east in Forrests). 1) Fractality: unlike trees, identical rock formations can occur at radically different scales, giving you no familiar reference or anchor point. 2) With no foliage, you can see something miles away without any obstruction, so something that seems 1 mile away is actually 50 miles away. 3) Perspective… (forgot).