This is 99% Invisible. I’m Roman Mars.
@romanmars I remember my acting teacher talk about how set stairs had to be accurate as hell because we just learn how high they are and if you make them even a few millimeters too high people will trip.
@romanmars @RealSwanSong is now composing quirky drip droppy music while I quietly come up with ways to incorporate steel guitar on the score
@romanmars Wherever there is sufficient demand to move between two points of differing elevation, there are stairs 99percentinvisible.org/episode/episod…
@romanmars Since I read that, if you think about stairs from a global view, we should talk about going 'outstairs' and 'instairs' instead up 'upstairs' and 'downstairs', I've never been able to think about stairs the same again. (Don't recall the source...)
@romanmars You can't hear a written tweet!... "This is 99% inv..."