Bradford Hansen-Smith had piloted his car through major snow, the I-system providing only one lane each way through major stretches. Such is North America in winter. The further north you go, the more frozen water you get, with neither pole really having time to thaw out, though over longer cycles a permafrost will get mushy.
Terraformation sounds like a noun, but then English is good that way, making everything sound over and done with, stones in a graveyard. Nouns, as far as the eye can see.
There's something to be said for immutability, software engineers will attest. But lets not forget: the planet is still forming, it's not "done". Best we be nimble and quick in our thinking, not stodgy, as she isn't.
Back to Brad: he's showing circle folding as a method of exploration, almost meditation. He wants to equip you with specific techniques and then set you off to explore a territory. Circles and creases. Edges, faces, vertexes. Topology at its most primitive.
In my Youtube about our meetup, I talk about how it really isn't Origami. The circle meditations are meant to be journeys of discovery whereas in Origami we have a specific goal or objective and know that following a set of stepping stones will get us to our destination.
I encouraged Brad to hit the groove of doing more Youtubes, as I've been doing. When it comes to Show & Tell, there's no real substitute for both showing and telling.
The workshops out here are on Orcas Island, which we hear about a lot, as cool and trendy. People who migrate around doing conferences as a lifestyle, a way of earning one's way by speaking at some of them, like to get away to these nooks and crannies of Planet Earth.
