While I was Montreal, I popped my head into the newly minted
SoftImage offices and quickly dubbed [them] The Anxiety Building. The whole
thing looked like it was built expressly to make even to most
ardent Techo-fetishist and Believer feel inadequate and
worthless. The ground floor also houses the Cinema Parallele /
Cafe Melies combo which used to be up the street in slightly more
humble and human environments. Now they both look like they are
straight out of Blade Runner. When you buy tickets for a movie,
you don't actually look at a human being but rather a port hole
shaped computer monitor that displays a distorted video feed of
the cashier taken with a webcam located on the other side of the
monitor/window. Caro
and Jeunet, here we come!