A conversation with Addie Ulrey

So

Oh yeah, I also turned off my phone.

I forgot to say that.

No internet and no phone, which has not felt...

Again, it hasn't felt that dramatic because just being alone with nothing to do feels more dramatic.

But I have been thinking about the ways in which...

I guess I've been noticing all of the moments where I want to look something up.

And the project that I've been working on is about the internet.

And so I've been thinking about... just how we've become people who live with more information and It's not necessarily better, but it's also not necessarily worse.

It's just like a different and uncomfortable thing to have less information.

I've been interested that like one of the things that has irked me most is not being able to look at the weather, which is one of the least useful things.

Like it will just happen in a few hours.

What's going to

happen is going to happen.

So why

would I need to know? And half the time it's wrong.

But like, I'm like, well, but is it going to rain? I think it's just one of those, you know, we all have like our little...

slightly compulsive things we do on our phones, and I think I

check the weather a lot, so.

And there's a comfort within that, right? To be like, I think I know how today is going to go.

I can expect how today is going to go, but then when you release yourself of that, that, like, the weather is going to happen, and it's going to affect all of us, no matter what, that's kind of a huge control release to have, where it's like, I don't have that information now.

I think I also just

love weather.

Yeah,

there's that