Fire In The Whatnow

“Fire in the belly, that’s what you need,” shouted a red-faced man. “You won’t get anything from a sale if you don’t have fire in the belly!” He seemed pretty convinced by it. The rest of the national sales conference seemed to agree. The throng of identically suited men in attendance all raised themselves up and applauded. I sat still; remaining convinced they were applauding his ability to complete a rant without suffering from a heart attack. It struck me that adding a loud noise into the equation might be just the tipping point his corpulent (and unsettlingly moist) body didn’t need.

Health and Efficiency

People of a certain age will forever link the title of this post with a top shelf naturist magazine that was either an eye-opener or a bitter disappointment depending on your personal outlook. For some reason it always struck me as an incredibly odd journal – in the way that ones about buses or tractors didn’t. I imagine that a fair number of non-vapers would look at an ecig magazine similarly perplexed manner.

Return of the Mech

Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel. Never ending or beginning on an ever-spinning reel. Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon. Like a carousel that’s turning running rings around the moon. Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face; and the world is like an apple whirling silently in space. Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.

The Art of Vaping

As a physicist I’ve held a long-term fascination with the aural and visual splendour of the subject. As an artist I hunt out aesthetic pleasure in everything and vaping is no exception. What is the point in art? To me it serves to illustrate life, provide answers to questions and give a sense that we are all part of something so much bigger than ourselves. The intrinsic beauty of art can both challenge and reward. Vaping is art.