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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
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
Posted in California Nature, Poetic, Traveling
Tagged boomy sand, desert studies center, horror, mojave, zzyzx
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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
Posted in California Nature, Traveling
Tagged desert studies center, health spa, lake bed, landscape, mojave, resort, ruins, soda springs, zzyzx
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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
Posted in California Nature, Traveling
Tagged basalt, cinder cones, desert studies center, landscape, mojave, zzyzx
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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
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
Posted in Adornment
Tagged alexander mcqueen, chloe, fall 2011, isabel marant, ny fashion week, paris fashion week, rodarte
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Land and Sky II (Holiday Snapshots)
Posted in Poetic, Traveling
Tagged arial perspectives, elizabeth gallardo, landscape
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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
Posted in California Nature, Poetic, Traveling
Tagged 110 freeway, 5 freeway, california wilderness, elysian park, freeways, la river, pedestrians, walkability
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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
Posted in California Nature, Poetic, Traveling
Tagged 110 freeway, bodycity, dance, la river, landscape, llano del rio collective, los angeles art, performance
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