Monthly Archives: March 2011

K’uk’ul-chon Jamz

Spring equinox happened last week. I will commemorate it with this podcast dedicated to K’uk’ul-chon, Mayan feathered snake god. During the vernal equinox, the shadow cast by the angle of the sun on the steps of the pyramid at Chichen … Continue reading

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White out IPA

White out      bath house      Chub Street      Boulevard of Dreams      salt in wound palm roof      iron view      empty oven      mineral spring      long road mine pyramid      crusted grass    … Continue reading

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Desert Ruins in Soda Springs

Zzyzx, home of the Cal State Desert Studies Center was once a resort run by an evangelical rogue “medicine man”.  After being confiscated by the federal government in 1974 and re-purposed as a research center, the property now remains in … Continue reading

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Mojave Vision Quest

I’m very excited about next quarter’s design project- we are doing a master plan for the Desert Studies Center, a Cal State research center located in Zzyzx, California on the border of the Mojave National Preserve. I love the desert, … Continue reading

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Technology give us amazing perspectives

I’m in the midst of finals craziness, but I wanted to share this amazing Google Earth art that someone emailed me this week. Artist Clement Valla has been collecting images of bridges from the program, because the 3D logarithm just … Continue reading

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Fall 11 Shows

Wishing I was in Paris… Amazing work from Alexander McQueen, Balmain, Chloé, Commes Des Garçons, Isabel Marant, Rodarte, Viktor + Rolf, and Zero/Maria Cornejo. In the meantime, I have been traveling through Mara Hoffman’s blog- a bit unexpectedly, I can’t … Continue reading

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Land and Sky II (Holiday Snapshots)

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Rogue Interventions in Landscape, Part II: A photo essay

Once the police had stopped all traffic on the Northbound 110, I came to the very immediate conclusion that I could not afford to get a citation for trespassing (if that were to happen), so I grabbed former classmate Frannie … Continue reading

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Bodycity Stops Traffic: Rogue Interventions in Landscape

Yesterday Bodycity took over a piece of Los Angeles not often acknowledged by the general population.  The Llano del Rio Collective performed OVERPASSAGES at the intersection of the 5 and the 110 freeways, a piece that takes its inspiration from … Continue reading

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