I hadn't expected just how busy we'd be in LA. Pretty much every moment not spent sleeping was either doing something or driving to go do something. A lot of that something was eating, which we did to excess; another big part of that was E3, which, like all trade shows, was a lot of noise for not much interesting content. The Wii was certainly the highlight of the show, and showed a lot of potential even if most of that potential wasn't realized in the games and demos we saw there—it didn't seem like the controller adds much in the new Mario game, but they've got plenty of time to work on that. The closest I saw to what will hopefully be the proper Wii Experience was a Wario Ware demo where you hold the magic wand on your hip and mime hula, hold it like a steering wheel to drive a car, hold it on your head ("The Mohawk") and do squats, and so on. In this ideal, the controller is no longer an abstract interface, using buttons to represent actions, but a tool that lets you express the action itself. There will be advantages and disadvantages to removing this layer of abstraction, and I'm sure we'll see some really clumsy implementations, but I'm sure we'll get a lot of new experiences that weren't possible before. In other words, I'm excited.

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I'm off for another two weeks now, with another 30 rolls of film. I've got the whole summer to catch up on photos and journaling, so I don't feel too bad about all this Doing instead of Writing about Doing.