Thursday, November 08, 2007

Small town melancholy and the errors of travel

Driving to Austin-Bergstrom evokes all sorts of associations, one of them is the feeling that you are without doubt in a small town.

Peering out of the windows in the plane while in transit, I wondered how will skylines look at night when cities switch over to 5500k incandescent lighting? I tried to imagine night cities transforming from gold to silver, like this: