Friday, March 6, 2009

desert navigation

if i end up in NM, and we end up with a piece of land in the desert, i would like to seriously consider the possibility of constructing a large shanty-hangar to house the immense dirigible i plan on building.

after graduation i would like to spend two years floating the world. we can steal a page from archigram and touch down in various locations to build instant cities.

one thing i always thought was missing from those proposals: where does an instant city-worth of people come from? are they also on the airship? is there an assumption that a large crowd has been following us on the ground hoping to get in on the instant real estate at entry-level prices? what about he bands that are to play on what was always an immense stage that seemed to be a prerequisite for the instant city?

if not, i would at least like to build a very thin (1-2in) concrete lake (that way it will be thin enough to crack under our weight) and build a large community of fishing huts on it. it will be like january on a northeastern lake, only in the middle of the desert, in august. we can live in them...or at least use them as refuge from the teeming metropolis of alba-how-ever-you-spell-it.

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