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Since I'm here, the why: When I was a kid — back when travelling still felt new and exciting — I would see a plane crossing the early evening sky and try to pu
by jheising 2mo ago
Since I'm here, the why:
When I was a kid — back when travelling still felt new and exciting — I
would see a plane crossing the early evening sky and try to put myself in
it. Not to go anywhere in particular. I just wanted to know what the world
looked like from up there, right then, to whoever was sitting by that
window.
The feeling was strongest at sunset. I'd be watching a good one from the
ground and think about how much better it had to be from up there, above
the haze, with the light coming in level. The same sunset from a
perspective I couldn't reach.
Travel has lost most of that. Airports, queues, delays: everything wrapped
around flying has got steadily worse. But the flying itself hasn't changed.
An hour into a clear evening flight, forehead against the glass, looking
down at a world you almost never see from that angle, and it is still one
of the quietly moving experiences I know.
Stowaway is that part, without the rest of it.
- KuhlMensch 2mo agoI'm in Central Spain at 5:30am... I was pleasantly surprised to hear crickets. If not for the for the sound of fan and aircon - that is what I would be able to hear coming from my window. I checked from Brighton, UK, and there is perhaps the same crickets (and birdsong for this time). I found it quite compelling. Be cool if you scaled the volume to latitude and chirp-rate to temperature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolbear%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolbear%27s_law)
- jheising 2mo agoI LOVE the idea of applying Dolbear's Law, that would be such a cool touch.
- BLKNSLVR 2mo ago> forehead against the glass, looking down at a world you almost never see from that angle I'm surprised by how few people seem to do this. I feel like I'm the only adult acting like a child when I do it. Look around and see most everyone else treating it like a night time bus ride through a tunnel. P.S. Great project name. Stowaway. Perfect.
- Markoff 2mo agosame here and actually even my kids are less excited about looking at world from up there than me, I guess that's what happens when you travel by plane every year since primary school vs me who had first flight in my 20s
- dust-jacket 2mo agoThis is lovely and I feel much the same. We live pretty close to a flight path and still point at planes as they go past and wonder where they might be going on holiday. Sadly no longer live close enough that I can see my house when approaching the local airport. That was always cool.