<media href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nWY_KrQ1eg" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/1nWY_KrQ1eg" source="YouTube" width="560px" author="Politics and Prose" caption="William Gibson 'The Peripheral'"> <img attachment="the_peripheral.jpg" align="right" caption="The Peripheral">At about <b>38:40</b> or so, someone asked about his process, <bq><b>Lady:</b> Do you know where you're going when you set out? <b>Gibson:</b> No, I don't. And it's when you ask me now, you're asking somebody who's been doing it for like 30 years or a little bit more, and I no longer know how I'm doing it. I just don't. I don't think of it. It's like the story of the the old fiddle-maker and people said, 'how do you make those fiddles?' and he said, '<b>I start with this block of wood and I take off everything that's not the damned fiddle.</b>'</bq> That short story reminded me of a video I'd recently seen, <media href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qYwUn9mLKU" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/5qYwUn9mLKU" source="YouTube" width="560px" author="ProcessX" caption="The Process of Making a Cello. A High-End Japanese Cello Crafted by One Artisan in Six Months.">