06.20.09 Skills Post: Camping in Peculiar Places

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06.20.09 Hope International University Terraces Building Demolition

The Orange County Register's story on the demolition.

05.31.09 Border Field

The US/Mexico border where it intersects with the Pacific Ocean.

05.31.09 San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

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05.31.09 Huntington Beach Power Plant

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05.10.09 Orange Crush Interchange

Rumored to be the world's most complex highway interchange.

04.28.09 Disneyland Megaresort Parking Garage

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04.26.09 Brea, CA

upper left: God was like, “Yeah… thanks for the effort guys but this structure ain’t honoring shit.”

upper right: “When we build the Utopia, Phil Collins will be heard from every street corner!”

lower left: Take another look at that window.

lower right: Things found in the backyard: patio furniture, grill, dog’s water bowl, 30-foot brick wall.

View stage two: part one here.

Ruins of the Second Gilded Age by photographer Edgar Martins. Commissioned by the New York Times.

Another Orlov lecture. It's comforting to find myself already living by the six precepts he lays out in section 27.

ABC News produced this 2-hour special that aired on June 2. Noteworthy for its inclusion of ideas rarely covered by the mainstream media.

Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices. I absolutely love this guy. A fantastic hour long speech.

So here's the plan to get things growing again.

This essay by Charles Eisenstein does an excellent job laying out the fundamental economic premises upon which this project is based.

Scenes from the recession. Yes, by all means, stop building stuff.

The IMF and World Bank are both predicting global economic contraction in 2009.
This guy is mostly into tunnels and storm drains but has taken some really seductive shots of decomissioned power plants.
The Center for Land Use Interpretation's current exhibition in Houston: Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry.
This government site has a bunch of good maps with approximate locations for California energy infrastructure. I've been using them to help me select sites to visit.
The Illuminated Thread Stage Two is dedicated to the memory of Kirsten Brydum.
Found this article on BBC. Imagine how amazing Dubai will be when the half-built city of the future is left to blow away in the desert.