Yesterday I was driving between offices when I noticed some graffiti going on … Not on a fence or a wall but on the clear blue sky. The perfect background became the canvas for a touching and personal message to D.K, who is clearly no longer with us… BUT it immediately struck me that sign-
writing with a jet, is a rather extravagant and inexact way to get your sentiment across.
The more I watched it unfold (while driving carefully of course) my mind began to boggle.
How DO they do it ? I mean it’s hard enough to write straight on a piece of paper without any lines ….so imagine being in a plane and trying to get your letters to line up, and be legible.
Then there is the timing …if the message is long, the start is almost ‘on its way out’ before the sentence is finished…and what about the wind ?? It would really give you the shits if you got half way and the wind picked up and blew it all away.
What fascinated me even more with this particular message was that while it was being created it looked like group of horizontal lines one above the other …THEN 5 minutes later when I arrived at my stop and looked up it was clearly visible across the sky as “I’ll be missing U”.
HOW ? did the wind blow it into position? or did the earth rotate in that 5minutes? or did I just move to look at it from a different angle?
I have NO idea how it works … but I guess the dear departed D.K is lucky to have someone creative, clever and wealthy enough to make such a grand… but temporary statement on the sky.
Wonder Years 
Leave a Reply