You know, the dance that everyone used to do when they were talking on their mobile phone in a public place - outside a bar or a shop or a library.
The dance that was giving a physical expression to being in a mixed reality.
I've been trying to see if we still do the dance.
But either we've stopped doing it, or it's become so commonplace I can't make myself remember to notice it.
The Mk 2 Magical Monstervision Machine in action capturing monsters in Lancaster.
Big thank yous to Paul Coulton and the cell of inventors in Lancaster.
I've been in communication with a cell of eccentric inventors based in a ramshackle unmarked building deep in the grounds of Lancaster University.
These inventors have built a Magical Monstervision Machine, which can be used to reveal the presence of the ancient monsters that lurk on our city streets, invisible to human eyes.
Trials are still at their earliest stages, but last week I successfully used a Magical Monstervision Machine Mark 1 to discover for the first time several monsters in their lairs.
Here are the secret blueprints of the Mark 2 Machine.
Your computer will now self-destruct in 10, 9, 8...
I've been a bit unsure about using the phrase "call to action" as a quick way of describing things like a poster at a bus stop asking "Where were you happiest to arrive and why?"
Partly because it feels like one of those phrases it's easy to repeat so often it becomes meaningless, and partly because it makes me think of marketing.
But then I had look on wikipedia and found that Call to Action is also a left wing Catholic group in the US, which if you join you automatically get excommunicated by the Bishop of Nebraska - no trial, no right of appeal, straight to Hell.
Three words that can get you damned can't be all bad.
Holly's reply is a lot more insightful than my lazy bit of self publicising, and a lot better than it deserved.
But I can't quite get rid of the feeling (or the hope), dumb as I am.
That if everything isn't as much in play now as it can ever be, then when will it ever be?
That this can't be the only time that people have thought, or hoped, so.
And that we are trying to keep everything in play for as long as we possibly can, because it will end.
OK so "launches" "at" "Futuresonic", if you put it like that, might not be strictly true - Futuresonic is too cool for comics and monsters after all ;-)
But I'll be at Futuresonic with a pocket full of Foldups which I will be leaving around the place and handing out to unsuspecting strangers.
Not this Andy. That Andy.
Five Trees Forest won the award for best use of mobile technology at yesterday's Yorkshire Digital Awards sponsored by 4iP.
Massive credit goes to co-creators Common Agency and Andy Sykes for doing a brilliant job and for being able to put up with my relentless and unblinking ability to ask for crazy amounts of work on stories-for-mixed-realities about invisible worlds with almost invisible budgets.
WannaWeeWee , who lives in the London Eye, has taps for fingers and metal bucket feet. He creeps up behind small children and makes the sound of gently running water.
Frisboing , who lives in Hyde Park, lollops along on gangly legs throwing frisbees from a sack with eight arms, chased by a pack of dogs.
Sweetish , who lives in Tate Modern, is a jellyfish floating high in the turbine hall that trails long silky tentacles to steal from packets of sweets
Foldup issue 1 will be available on Wednesday 13th May.
