while waiting for the website to come along, we share a few words with karenfuxia

 

 

coffee break

Q: Hi karen, let's talk about you for a moment... you seem to be involved in the sci-fi, comics, fantasy world.... how about that?

A: Absolutely not, I'm under serious talk here. Karenfuxia dot com is an enterprise mainly aimed at piling up money out of aerial vehicles and cognitive integration. The short comic strip you see is there to free your mind. Just relax and enjoy it. I recall a similar strip for Coffeecup Software...a male and a female just enjoying a cup of coffee together, wandering and being amazed about how many molecules of caffeine are in there... there's a lot of technical sensuality involved. I think technical sensuality is the base for all sorts of technical business. Just go back to Sly and collect all the sensuality from there

Q: A question out of the blue: what do you suggest doing immediately after an emergency situation arise?

A: Absolutely, fly the aeroplane!

Q: Ok let's stick back to our interview. Is there a movie scene you recall in a particular way?

A: Sure. It's still involving coffee and it's from "Mulholland Drive" by David Lynch. The producer, director and staff from a Hollywood movie company are discussing at a meeting board about who should take a specific role.. a mafia guy who is financing part of the movie is taking part in the discussion and he wants a low class actress to be in the play, all he says is "She's the Girl" by pointing at the actress photo he's lying on the desk... the director is determined in giving no way to that actress and closes his mind about the whole damned thing... the producer is obviously trying to talk him into it and at the same time is smiling to the mafia guy like "hey, this will be fixed in a moment, everything's ok... etc".... things don't get any better but the producer manages somehow to settle the deal and, as an attempt to resting down the waters, he calls for the company's waiter and the mafia guy orders an italian espresso. Now, you've got to see the face of the mafia guy, the actor is Angelo Badalamenti himself, the soundtrack composer in most of Lynch's films, sticking out his worst italian side.... and you've got to know that by asking for an italian espresso in L.A. the most you'll get is plain bullshit.... not very appropriate for the delicate situation. So the coffee arrives, the scene is theatrically dramatic with the waiter arriving and offering the coffee in the most possible formal way and Badalamenti wearing the most stubborn and negative face i've ever seen on earth.... everyone at the meeting board is watching the event and well, Badalamenti takes about a minute out of the whole Mulholland Drive movie just to pick up the cup, approach it to his lips, start turning the cup and eventually sipping a small quantitative of the substance witheld by the cup..... wearing exactly the same fixed and negative face all the time.... till there's something happening down there and like in slow motion he picks up the napkin and he slobs, man you should see how he's slobbing all the coffee out of his mouth on the napkin, it's just one of the most amazing things i've ever seen with my pants on, his face turns absolutely into the Mother of Grimaces of Disgust ever seen.... he's absolutely great and obviously he stands up, picks up his things and break leaves the meeting followed by his assistant, and the producer waving his hands trying to settle the thing down again (no way!)

Q: Let's have a cup of coffee then :-)

A: Ok! :-) .... "She's the Girl!" ;-)

as we share the coffee (a home made one, out of a burned moka karen has left on fire for a whole hour some day ago...) i take the chance to ask something about the space program

Q: What's on your mind for the Space Program?

A: heyyyyy.... you speak like "The Cowboy" in the movie we were talking about.

Q: I just wanted to trickle you... but I see you're well prepared

A: Ok :-)... so, the space program. I think there are two ways of tackling the Program. We either think and act as superior minds or we just continue shooting stuff up there. The first one involves sorts of "Cosmic Mind Fields" (no kidding, i could rewrite all cosmic entities as holding a role as a universal cognitive entity, i mean, physical quantities exchanged within a universe are just like information being exchanged in a mind) and is difficult to make understand but it is way too cool, the second one is funnier and there's a lot of rockets, sonic booms, the Right Stuff and such things. I frankly prefer the first one but i cannot make money out of that so I just stick to the second one.

Q: So what?

A: To start with, just develop a wearable suborbital re-entry shield, conformal to a full pressure suit. Get a few skydivers wearing such a thing up on a Pilatus or a C-130, throw them down from 30k ft, boost their personal ramjet engine in free fall and zoom up there in supersonic, till the ramjet grabs enough atmosphere to push the contraption. then, just go ballistic or, if it's not sufficient, add a solid rocket booster out of standard stock from small military missile weapons. once suborbital, use pressurized inert gas to drive the vernier rockets...you won't need much due tothe low inertia of the vehicle. Reentry is shielded by a single use shield, (just strap it under the contraption before each ride....)... glide back to the atmosphere, fly over your favourite airstrip and bang out a stock ballistic recovery chute. That's it. I think a single mission could cost less than 20k euro including monouse shield, ramjet fuel, ballistic recovery chute charge and Pilatus ticket ride. The contraption -including the full pressure suit, which not necessarily must be a "suit" but simply a pressurized volume in no-frills/good looking-design-shape (being the contraption structure too), and the ramjet engine- might well cost under 50k euro. That's it. Life is simple. Why not?

Q: Who will use such a crazy death machine?

A: Anyone dreaming of being annihilated in a plasma cloud while reentring the Planet from Outer Space.... like me! Can you imagine being there, the Earth is Blue and there's nothing i can do... just slamming into that big thing behind a simple shield.... that's absolutely an Heroic Action... I recall the Gundam Combat Exoskeleton performing something like that.... absolutely great.

Q: Coming back to our original question: do you expect to be taken seriously?

A: hahahaha...I take myself seriously, that's enough. I think you are betrayed by some spectacular flash of imagination you get from my style, you should focus on the bass line going behind that.

 

Flying is a misleading topic

Stepping aside from my perpetual enquiry on who i am and what am i looking for in others, i’ve realized that flight topics are misleading as they mostly approach myself to people who are not extracting bodily, physical, technical-structural topics from flight, but their metabolism and their gastric juices are giving a sort of pre-digested bolus written or spoken in terrestrial semantic standards. (1)

What i’m concerned with in flying is its bodily feeling, creature feelings, being a flying creature. I’m interested in flying creatures technicisms, i’m interested in the future of flying creatures under a man-machine mixture prespective, under a man and synthetic flying organism perspective. I’m not talking of flying creatures as a synonimum of airplanes: most of the airplanes i know are not meant to be creatures.

History and reflections from people i wrongly approach offer basically nothing of all the above. I feel what they are offering as cement lime, dead lime clogging the pores of my imagination, preventing me from going on with my flying creature trip.

From all airshows, books, people i’ve met and talked me about sky and flying, i’ve retained only a couple of things. And i realize that’s what it counts for me as far as the statistical exchange with others is concerned :

- A report for a 2.5 seconds of flight on a Tornado fighter bomber in a test flight, given by Napoleone Bragagnolo, chief test pilot for Alenia.The report lasted twenty minutes talk and was about ten pages long, as he describes what was going on within his mind, his body, his aircraft and time. In literature there are plenty of descriptions of meaningful instants, but in no way I've ever found something so crude, real and fare.
- Three lines from a pilot i cannot cite here, dramatically confessing that flying is an onirical dimension you cannot talk about on ground.

There is no Richard Bach, no Von Richtofen, no Antoine de Saint Exupery, no any other character, person or reflection i’ve met across my life. This means i must continue on the way i feel, statistically expecting basically nothing from others on my trip, trusting my instinct a bit more and reading deep inside the heart of people for what they really are after in life.

So, if you DO extract MOSTLY bodily, physical, technical-structural, CREATURE topics from your flight experience or from what you're after in flying, and you are DETERMINED to produce FACTS on this line of thought, do write me karenfuxia@libero.it

Otherwise, « flying » is a misleading topic.

(1). Criticism have been rised on my writing style on " overly complicated words that are written to "sound good" " like this sentence. Here i perform an explanatory prosa of the language i used.

The author of this sentence, quite honestly and frankly, faces his own social life budget. As the sentence is written in his website under the "an interview" link, the topic is pertinent.

People are performing, both physically and mentally, a metabolism of their world experience. I think there's nothing strange in facing this.
Metabolism involves a bolus and gastric juices, and these are easy and physical concepts to grab.

The author is carrying an analogy out of this metabolism, and uses this analogy for explaining that what others usually retain and transmit from flying (what they elaborate, what they are metabolizing from flying) is written or spoken (which are common ways of communication) using terminologies and meanings usually pertinent for explaining happenings, feelings, which take place with feet on the ground,...terminologies and logics which might not be adapted (and the author is sustaining that they are even misleading) for giving a sort of "rendering" of what is actually taking place in feelings and sensations experienced while flying.

It is a point of view and it is debatable. anyhow the author sustains that he has wrongly approached people in the past, because they were simply talking of "flying" without being able of extracting or communicating what he actually is after in flying... the fact of being or trying to become an aerial creature.

He could have written the same thing in many other ways, shifting the "shadings" and accents out of his speech. but he wanted to underline "gut" feelings, gut sensations, and the lack of them in the other people's speech, and a dramatic lost of time he has undergone, in pursuing and maintaining contacts with people that, as far as flying and the author's idea of flying, are as far as the north and the south pole on earth.

So. Did the author used terms because they "sounded good"? yes. They sounded good because they were functional to what he wanted to say. If the reader is focusing on what he or she is actually reading and is acknowledging the substance he or she is reading, the link between sound and meaning is clear.

It looks "strange"?
W ell.It IS strange. There is nobody patenting e.g. a system for tactile feedback for pilots involving a mapping of the aircraft aerodynamic shell over the pilot's skin, as the author has done. Did you notice the patent on the website? here it is: AS3. What the author is saying is strange because IT IS strange. it's very simple. it is not complicated, fancy, or stuff like that.
What it is strange actually is that the author is even doing what he's saying. It looks so strange to the point that it's easier to think that he's just being artistic in his way of expressing empty feelings with no real correspondence.

"complexity is in the eye of the beholder"
or maybe, in a mix of beholder and the rest :-)...... for this, i would suggest your next red pill for today: my memory work in cognitive science, Intrication Sujet-Objet dans la mesure de l'information