Myriam Joire, evangelist for the wearables company Pebble, has been fired from her position.
The visual narrative is propelled by fragments of music, shifting sounds (radio static, footsteps) and the slightly rusty voice of the Nashville poet and musician David Berman, whose pungent non sequiturs ripple the images like pebbles tossed into water: "Fire's not a thing because where is it before you start it?" "We ruin an otherwise unthought-of world".
There, on a pavilion that jutted over the water, they huddled around fire pits constructed from river pebbles.
A big, rugged-looking 16th-century tea storage jar from the pottery town of Shigaraki, for example, has a rich reddish-buff surface, roughly nubbled by feldspar pebbles that fused during firing into small white beads.
THE Harbor Club will be different, he said, with fire pits set between wood benches, pebbles on the ground and surfboards leaning against bamboo fencing.
Pebble, the smart watch that set the world on fire with its Kickstarter project, is already encountering a few growing pains as its device begins to trickle out to the earliest backers.
Made of hard-edged white cement and no bigger than a soaking tub, the fire pit is filled with black lava pebbles.
Embattled Pebble finally gave up the ghost last year, resulting an a fire sale of its assets to Fitbit – which used those resources to produce the ugliest piece of wristwear you can currently get for $300.
I asked, "How did the fire start?" and Ruth said, slowly, each word sucked like a pebble in the mouth, "Lightning.
His first product, the Pebble Smart Watch, came to him after experimenting with watch designs and then caught fire, going from $0 to $10 million in funding on Kickstarter.
