A twitteresque account of my recent activities and movements since the last time we spoke…
Posted on May 12, 2007 in musings, peripherals
Painted the awning high-gloss red, rode my bike, went to work for the Man, ate breakfast at Ida Mae’s with Gimp, worried about the state of things, drank beers on the stoop with Aaron and Meredith, read about McSorley’s, designed a bunch of materials for Casino-Free Philadelphia and the Philly’s Ballot Box campaign, built a prototype, presented my work for an unstated reason, got rejected, read the paper(s), recorded some music (with aforementioned Gimp), visited Deborah (and Barbara) in Maine, had a stroll in Arlington, VA with my grad school chums, planned a riverfront, got an invitation to go to Montreal with the Think Tank, talked shop with the Action Mill, learned how to make a pocket-sized portable radio transmitter from Red76, had champagne brunch at the Bass, missed the shad festival, looked at del.icio.us a lot, walked through the city, watched V-Mars, discovered a beach made of bricks, cleaned out the basement, paid Ed to side the house, missed the kids, rode the El, listened to the same music, lost interest in the mayoral election, wondered what to do next, visited Grandma et al in Ankeny, IA, connected with the Pedagogical Factory, thought about calling all of you.
Terra Incognita
Making visible the impact of the University of the Arts on land use in Center City Philadelphia and our role as active inhabitants of these spaces.
Place In Place Of: Alexandria
A set of site-specific interventions, performances, lectures and documents created in Alexandria, Egypt that included a workshop with local art and architecture university students.
The Think Tank that has yet to be named
Acting as both the Director of the Dept. for the Investigation of Meaning (DIM) and the Director of the Dept. for the Investigation of Radical Pedagogy (DIRP), much of my practice falls under the rubric of the Think Tank that has yet to be named.
This Was Lost, This Was Found
Mapping and marking lost clothes found on the streets and sidewalks of Philadelphia.
A Typology of Mess Punkt
A photographic series of Mess Punkt, or measuring points, reveals an alernative cartography of the city and the memory of my experience of it.
Unbinding Boundaries
A series of projects which explores the socio-spatial divisions and potential connections between two adjacent districts in central Champaign that are bisected by the north-south railroad.
Place In Place Of: Berlin
A web-based project which uses the weblog format to present concurrent and collaborative investigations and interpretations of Berlin.
Provisonal Monument
A performative exploration of place, architecture, memory, provisional communities, provisional meanings, provisional monuments, the gloved hand of a construction worker swiping away gravel from a window sill...
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- Punakea | nudge:nudge // like delicious for your files in OS X
- Rosemary Cubas (Community Leadership Institute) on the Philadelphia's Neighborhood Transformation Initiative
- All For The Taking Blog Archive The Community Leadership Institute and INCITE Philadelphia?s Anti-Displacement Solidarity Committee; Origins and Current Work
- 2314 N. American St 19123 - Google Maps // Former superfund site
- Pennsylvania, 2314 N. American Street | Mid-Atlantic Superfund | US EPA
- The Philadelphia Empowerment Zone // American St. zone
- New Support but Few Gains For Urban Enterprise Zones - New York Times // article from 1992 mentions American St. zone
- Velluire, Vende, Pays de la Loire, France - Google Maps // Toussaint Baudry's ancestral home. He emigrated to French Canada in 1664.
- Fiefbergen, Pln, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - Google Maps // Plambeck (Grandma Beaudry's maiden name), Klindt, Holst, and Hebbel ancestral home. Peter Plambeck emigrated to the US via Ellis Island in 1899.
- Subtopia: Getting Ready for a Radical Roundup in Denver
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