Tuesday, November 15, 2005
We must go forward
Hey there,
Just caught a little bit of a documentary on the last flight of the Concord. I never realized what a fantastic machine it was. It was the flagship of British Airways since 1969 and was recently grounded. It seems mainly because of noise. The plane was fast skirting the edge of space at Mach 2! "Faster than a rifle bullet". Now it sits all by itself out by the runway at Heathrow. I remember passing it everytime I landed in London.
Anyway for some reason it got me thinking about the whole experience on the island again. At work, we were working fast and hard and on a regular basis. We were asked to work in a very tight schedule and instead of giving up and turning in average work given the time frame, we chose to move ahead and continue to maintain and improve the quality of our work. I can only speak for myself when I get frustrated over a script and just want to chuck it for one reason or another. But then I read it over and over until I get inspired to make it better. Sometimes the inspiration comes from my director, Joe before and during a thumbnail pitch. We get eachother thinking and "one-upping" one another ...all to make the show better. Those of you in animation are very familiar with this process. And to work on a cartoon out in the middle of the Irish Sea was... incredible! And all the politics and drama of just being human and being part of a small group of "fish out of water" in the UK was, as Bao would say,"Brilliant!" It truly was.
I guess all I wanted to say is I feel lucky... very lucky to have had this experience on this island... with these people. This has been a very "magical" time for me. And like the Concord that time has come to an end.
At the end of the documentary Maya Angelou (one of the last passengers) says that the Concord "shows us how far the human being has gone... how far the human mind takes us. And withdrawing it tells us in effect that we are retrogressing and we... we should never retrogress. WE MUST GO FORWARD."
Just caught a little bit of a documentary on the last flight of the Concord. I never realized what a fantastic machine it was. It was the flagship of British Airways since 1969 and was recently grounded. It seems mainly because of noise. The plane was fast skirting the edge of space at Mach 2! "Faster than a rifle bullet". Now it sits all by itself out by the runway at Heathrow. I remember passing it everytime I landed in London.
Anyway for some reason it got me thinking about the whole experience on the island again. At work, we were working fast and hard and on a regular basis. We were asked to work in a very tight schedule and instead of giving up and turning in average work given the time frame, we chose to move ahead and continue to maintain and improve the quality of our work. I can only speak for myself when I get frustrated over a script and just want to chuck it for one reason or another. But then I read it over and over until I get inspired to make it better. Sometimes the inspiration comes from my director, Joe before and during a thumbnail pitch. We get eachother thinking and "one-upping" one another ...all to make the show better. Those of you in animation are very familiar with this process. And to work on a cartoon out in the middle of the Irish Sea was... incredible! And all the politics and drama of just being human and being part of a small group of "fish out of water" in the UK was, as Bao would say,"Brilliant!" It truly was.
I guess all I wanted to say is I feel lucky... very lucky to have had this experience on this island... with these people. This has been a very "magical" time for me. And like the Concord that time has come to an end.
At the end of the documentary Maya Angelou (one of the last passengers) says that the Concord "shows us how far the human being has gone... how far the human mind takes us. And withdrawing it tells us in effect that we are retrogressing and we... we should never retrogress. WE MUST GO FORWARD."
# posted by Villamor Cruz @ 19:09 
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Looks like I spelled Concorde incorrectly. And yes, there is more than one (20 built. British Airways and Air France owned several). As far as the documentary, it delt with the last flight of British Airways Flight BA002 from New York to Heathrow. I guess they retired the British Concorde Aircrafts in October 2003. If your mother did actually fly one last month, she is very lucky.
The European Concordes were grounded after a loss of confidence in them following several nasty incidents... And apparently, there were only a couple of places in the world that still knew how to repair them!
If you're interested, check here: The BBC Site
Yes... I now have too much time on my hands!
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If you're interested, check here: The BBC Site
Yes... I now have too much time on my hands!
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