edge city
I’m reading Joel Garreau’s Edge City, a narrative on sprawl written in the late 1980s, following the first massive waves of urban flight and explosion of low density growth. As a reporter for the Washington Post, Garreau writes a readable book with a lot of historical context, personal anecdotes, and common sense appeal. I’m looking forward to the read and am taking notes as I go, some of which I will post here, for my own sake or anyone else interested in understanding how our cities have transformed and the impacts they have on our culture, our individual psyche, and our almost inevitable futures as citizen commuters.
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Talking Heads
Don’t look for too much substance, it’s all about as thin as a garage door, but sometimes it’s good to hear a jam. From School Knights ridiculously titled album “All Dawgz Go 2 Heaven.”
That’s me in the background.
temporal lottery
There is a fairly high chance that I will be coming in to a large sum of time soon. I’m hitting the temporal lottery, looking at winnings of around 7 months. I do not plan to squander this gift. I want to invest it as wisely as possible, in myself, in my friends and family, and for, like, you know, the world in general ‘n stuff ya’ know man? That would be the goal, subject to monetary constraints of course. Expected range of available cash will be anywhere from $2,000 to $8,000. That certainly rules out extravagant jet-setting and nearly guarantees I’ll be participating in some kind of labor-for-lodging program at some point. So, I’ve got ideas, vaguely, of working on organic farms, sleeping on couches, flying stand-by, but none of that seems entirely fulfilling or complete.
I need goals and I need inspiration for this great horizon of time. So, I pose to you, internet, if you’re out there, the following question:
“If you had seven months, an ‘expected range of available cash’ of 2 to 8 thousand dollars, and a healthy body, how would you go about it?
Feel free to incorporate the idea that these seven months will be your last. If anything, I’ll have a grab-bag of adrenaline pumping activities to choose from. Also, you’re invited for the journey for as long as you want to stick around. Email me if you want: bricenichols@gmail.com
I am the Corgi. The crab costume is the Texas heat. My face says “please stop this.”
Umbrella Swami
Photo and caption by Jay Dorfman
A journey to India’s famed Kumbh Mela is like travelling back in time. For two weeks I roamed the town and backstreets of Northern India’s Hardiwar. Many of the members of the brotherhood of Yogis and Swamis life a live style that is steeped in a culture that is over 5000 years old. When I saw this other worldly vision making its way towards me I knew it was one of those moments that transcend a mere portrait. I held his gaze and he mine that was so quiet and intense that i fired a bracketed series of of four exposures and was actually able to render the photo as a HDR image.
I’m thinking this concept could be applied virtually with computer graphics, giving planners and policy makers a clear (and colorful!) idea of traffic patterns and lane usage.
“Painting Reality” is an act of guerilla art, where cars are the paintbrush and the paint is water-based/ environmentally friendly (and comes in bright colors, too!). Click through for video!
Midwest lo-fi, too cool for a new set of strings. Cool video though.
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