The astronauts on Artemis went around the back of the Moon last night and were out of touch with the Earth for a whole forty minutes. Can you imagine being 'out of touch' with anybody for that long anymore? It just wouldn't happen, would it? Not in a time when almost everybody on the planet has a mobile 'phone. By chance, I photographed this yellow marker in a field the other day (I'm not sure what it's actually marking, but never mind ..) and it reminded me of a time before mobiles, a time when different companies were battling to get a slice of that new, emergent market. In the 90s I used to do a bit of PR photography, you see, for a company called Rabbit, whose idea was a new portable telephone system that required you to be within range of one of their transmitters. (Didn't work out, for obvious reasons!) I'd get various famous* people to pose with a hand-set .. and a rabbit .. and the shots would be sent out to local press. Nowadays, of course, we're completely absorbed by 'phones. Mesmerized, hypnotised, totally contr .. oh sorry, my 'phone's ringing. Gotta go!
* It's Mike Harding, if you were struggling!
