It is hardly possible to hold oneself back from excitement upon realization of what collaboration opportunities on-line tools open for the space between a picture and a text. There is this sense of hovering above a complex landscape that waits to be captured in a description that would pull essential structures out of, would shed narrative light on its overshadowed corners, and would detach the invisible layers of perception that make up the richness of a picture. There always seems to be more data than time and opportunity to analyze them. This digital variation on a visual experience of flanerie makes what Proust or Benjamin would wish to have at their disposal. This, namely, could be an ability to jot down their observations in a reversal of a pictorial process from scenes of urban life to a representation in the direction of a simulacrum of representation that goes from a visual picture of urban life to its verbal representation without original immediately facing it.
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