"The sky over Chiba City"

"was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel", is the first line of William Gibson's "Neuromancer", and it clicked instantly for me. Maybe it was growing up in a city, where yellow street-lights tent the night, but part of me responds to sodium skies.

I've always had a thing for cityscapes, especially by night, and in particular for traffic, and in particular for traffic on bridges, at night. There's a line from one of my own stories, written about 15 years ago, which talks about "traffic shuttling across the Kingston Bridge, red and white beads on a zero-sum abacus".

I went through a period of seriously thinking about buying a corner flat of the old co-op building overlooking the bridge.

The first time I saw Koyaanisqatsi, I sat with my jaw dropped for around two hours. No drugs required.

There's an image from an early Judge Dredd strip, possibly the first, which has stayed with me since child-hood, of the Empire State building dwarfed by mega-city flyovers .

Which is kind of a long winded way of saying thank you very much to psychochicken for my marvelous birthday present.

I've tagged the work-in-progress post he made in every_day_art, but I'm not sure if that's friends only,

So here is an image that doesn't do it justice.