Colorado
June 9, 2002 @ 2.:50pm
Flying over the Mid West, my family and I watched the forest fires occurring from our plane………..which was very different than watching them on tv.
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Island Lighthouse
A few weeks ago
The Baltic
We stayed for one night on an island with a lighthouse in the Baltic a few weeks ago. It was a very small island (smaller than a soccer pitch); there was no one else there except a woman who stays there all summer to help guests, and she scrubbed out a tub for Victor to have a bath in. It wasn’t work (for us), it wasn’t “holiday”; it wasn’t family. The weather was clear, warm, sunny and still. It felt like the eye of a storm.
Lighthouses
Jeanne-Hachette housing project. Architect: Jean Renaudie.
Designed 1970, completed 1975.
Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris.
The drawing shows one of the upper floors of the Jeanne-Hachette building, 50 meter above ground level. Each dwelling is different, each is on two levels. Each has at least one, and usually several planted terraces. The black triangles indicate the location of voids overlooking the floor below. In addition to housing, the building includes offices, shops, municipal services, an art gallery, a cafe, restaurants, a metro station and much else. It is a miniature city in itself that can be infiltrated and climbed over. It is in effect a kind of Mont Saint-Michel for the people built in the wake of May 1968. Thirty years later, though the area has declined economically and socially, the apartments continue to be highly valued by their inhabitants.
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On Turtle River Lake in Bemidji, MN
Twice a year, every year (one Friday in July and one Friday in August)
Concordia Language Villages is a magical summer camp in northern Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes. It has 12 ‘villages’, each one a full-immersion language and culture camp for kids 8 to 18. On two summer days every year, all villages gather at the International Day, where all villagers, staff, parents and guests sing, dance, eat, and participate in UN Summit, soccer and other games. On these two days, the town of Bemidji (population 12,000, known to be the home of Paul Bunyan and Babe the blue ox) gets a sudden surge of traffic, hosting over 2,000 people each I-Day. With young people singing, dancing and playing in 12 different languages all day, it is one of the exhilarating places to be, yet at the same time makes one wish we could all live in this kind of peace all year.
Pitchfork Ranch, Guthrie, Texas
Easter Sunday 2005 04:19:53PM
The Pitchfork Ranch is about 300-350 miles northwest of Waco. If you decide to drive there from Waco, you’ll have the good fortune (ehem…) of driving through Crawford Texas. That’s right, you guessed it, 100% Bush Country. Flags on every tree, lamppost, traffic light, stop sign, mailbox, anything that you can hang something from. Anyway, when you leave Waco, drive west on route 6 for about 3 hours on a 2 lane road in the middle of flat noWhere? After crossing route 20, continue on route 6 for about another 90 minutes until you hit route 283 on the edge of Haskell and Stonewall counties. Drive towards Aspermont and head north to Guthrie for about another 90 minutes. When you approach Guthrie, you’ll see a small ranch house on the right side just before the intersection. This is the county jail where Junior Daniels is Sheriff. If you see him or his son out front swinging their lassos, say hello, but then make a left turn at the intersection and drive about 20 minutes due west to the Pitchfork Ranch on the left hand side. There you’ll meet Dave Roberts, the fella in the moustache, who is rumored never having traveled anywhere unless on horseback. My friend Woody is asking where he’s going? It was one of the most memorable days I’ve had in a while, and certainly a nice Easter for a change.
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Fun Palace, by Cedric Price
1960-1961
an unrealised project for East London
I saw Cedric’s Fun Palace at an exhibition on my first day of architecture school. It changed everything for me. Essentially its a cultural space where the structure can be manipulated in an infinite variety of ways. Impromptu performances, events, happenings and festivals are all accomodated into a building not unlike the large container malls of today.
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New York City
Several times a day
Our apartment in the East Village
I always start singing, or rather “lalling” when I am doing something I like. This happens often when I am cooking or making drawings. One off my dreams is to be a jazz singer. But then I will not do the la la thing so much.
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New Babylon by Constant Nieuwenhuis
post-war Europe
literally everywhere
New Babylon is a postwar utopia where people, stripped of possessions and the need to earn a living, amble amiably across the earth in a permanent state of art-making - the environment constantly changing according to their desires and explorations. A state of planet-wide permanent play.
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Skane, Sweden
Summer 2004
Johanna's mother's garden in the village of St. Olof.
Crawfish are a delicacy of Sweden every later summer. However, these days they are mostly from China. They are totally red in color, and you line the heads up on your plate as you eat them… You drink them with beer and schnapps, my favorite being Skane Akvavit. Eating them in a garden arbor like this on a lazy summer evening is, well, close to paradise.
Banff, Canada
September 2005
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff New Media Institute
The Thinking Table 1 will be shown at Banff this September. “You play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process visible on the board before you.” Somehow the combination of playing this amazing game, and the fact that its in one of the most beautiful mountainscapes strikes me as easily being something you would include in a collection of Utopias.
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