06.20.09 Skills Post: Camping in Peculiar Places |
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06.20.09 Hope International University Terraces Building Demolition |
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The Orange County Register's story on the demolition. |
05.31.09 Border Field |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Ruins of the Second Gilded Age by photographer Edgar Martins. Commissioned by the New York Times. |
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Another Orlov lecture. It's comforting to find myself already living by the six precepts he lays out in section 27. |
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ABC News produced this 2-hour special that aired on June 2. Noteworthy for its inclusion of ideas rarely covered by the mainstream media. |
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Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices. I absolutely love this guy. A fantastic hour long speech. |
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So here's the plan to get things growing again. |
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This essay by Charles Eisenstein does an excellent job laying out the fundamental economic premises upon which this project is based. |
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Scenes from the recession. Yes, by all means, stop building stuff. |
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| The IMF and World Bank are both predicting global economic contraction in 2009. |
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| This guy is mostly into tunnels and storm drains but has taken some really seductive shots of decomissioned power plants. |
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| The Center for Land Use Interpretation's current exhibition in Houston: Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry. |
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| 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. |
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| The Illuminated Thread Stage Two is dedicated to the memory of Kirsten Brydum. |
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| 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. |