Recently I went to a gig that was really amazingly good and I was dancing and singing and really enjoying it. At that gig I noticed a girl who was standing in front of the stage taking photographs, during the whole entire gig she never looked at the band once! She just took photos of them and looked at the photos on the screen of her camera. It was like she had captured the band in her camera, a miniature version, that was even better than the real thing. It made me think about how the distances between people has become greater with all the "communication technology". It is so easy to send a text message or an email, that people don`t see each other as much as they used to. You send a couple of text messages back and forth and you feel like you have been talking to someone, but it is a much much lower level of communication. I think people rely too much on technology to save their memories also, that girl thought it was more important to get photographs of the band than to see the actual gig, I cried when I realised that my laptop ate half of my photographs from Paris, we all do it... It`s almost as if people wont believe your stories unless you have photos to back it up. Or that the experience wasn`t as good because you don`t have the photos to remember it by. Well that day in Paris, my love and I watched street theater beside some giant flower pots with no flowers in them, and we saw the finish line of a roller skate marathon, and there was a girl selling her drawings on the ground, and then the air changed really suddenly and everyone started running for cover, and the street theater disappeared and in a split second the sky opened and the coloured tubes of the Centre Pompidou turned into a refugee center for people fleeing the rain, and the street became a river and there we all were, people who never met huddled together in awe of the spectacular weather... I don`t have those photographs, but I remember the day. Actually, I think I remember it better BECAUSE I know that I lost the photographs. Other days you just think, "If I want to remember that I`ll just look at the photographs". It`s strange. It`s strange and I`m waffling... Well this painting made me think about a lot of things, some of those things are described here... but mostly it was about a girl who probably has really good photos, but no actual memory of the gig because she didn`t look at it. I used to do that a lot, totally concentrate on getting the perfect photograph of a gig, and then that was all I had... But I`ve changed, now I get a couple of average photos and a lot of good memories