As-yet-unwritten fiction

Lapis lazuli cylinder seal uncovered from the Royal Cemetery of Ur, Sumer, 2500 BC

Stirrup spout bottle in the form of a duck, Moche culture, Peru, 2nd-4th century AD

Marble bust of a ruler, Roman Greece, late 2nd century AD

Agate scepter head, Cyprus, circa 950 BC

Gold fitting, Greece, 325-300 BC

tripod vessel with acrobats balanced on rim | c. 200 CE | china, possibly henan province

Bronze bird with wheels, China, Eastern Han Dynasty, 9 -220 AD

Suddenly having 50 moving eyes can make you disoriented and barfy and the adjustment period sucks ass

It takes both more and less time than you’d think to figure out what the structure as a whole looks like and where those eyes ARE

After you get used to it the entirety of the structure itself and all of the eyes you can see from feels like an extension of your nervous system in a very bizarre way. Like I have dreams now from the perspective of A Building and I’m not sure how to describe that.

On my COMFORTABLE system, the one I spent the longest time on, I never had to think about what code I needed to punch in. If I needed to watch a specific person, I could follow them all over the site without thinking about it.

Now at a different location, all the manual equipment and codes and lag and resolution are different, and it feels like going from playing the piano to driving stick shift on the left side of the road with my feet

Red-Figure Bell Krater (Mixing Vessel): Aphrodite and Eros c. 370–360 BCE attributed to Graz Painter