{"id":649,"date":"2009-07-13T10:45:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T15:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2009-10-20T17:28:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T22:28:02","slug":"slow-expensive-and-with-clearly-defined-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/13\/slow-expensive-and-with-clearly-defined-boundaries\/","title":{"rendered":"slow, expensive, and with clearly defined boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"990\" height=\"700\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;oe=UTF8&amp;num=200&amp;t=p&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=109142167559422396965.00046e3805c6c55a6c6e4&amp;ll=36.4036,-110.522461&amp;spn=12.368335,21.75293&amp;z=6&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small>View <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;oe=UTF8&amp;num=200&amp;t=p&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=109142167559422396965.00046e3805c6c55a6c6e4&amp;ll=36.4036,-110.522461&amp;spn=12.368335,21.75293&amp;z=6&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">Kinne Road Trip<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><br \/>\nMy route for the next three (four? five? &#8211; funded fellowships and the absence of steady employment allow the luxury of improvisation) weeks. The overall, zoomed-out, google-eye view of the trip revolves around research through observation of structures, installations, natural landforms, urban growths, manipulated landforms, etc. constructed in the great blank slate of the Southwest desert. A place where time stretches from Planck&#8217;s constant &#8211; used to record the chain reactions that produce an Atomic detonation &#8211; up to Robert Smithson brushing up against the infinite on the Great Salt Flats. All of which is tested and implemented under the powerful spell of the Western landscape &#8211; a strange entity mixed in with notions of nation and empire, with bravery and myth, history and ficition. That&#8217;s what makes it interesting, and that&#8217;s what I want to check out.<br \/>\nThe format is the road-trip. The ambling, somewhat desultory first-hand narration of a nomadic journey across the desert&#8217;s offensively vast spaces, situated between fragmented vignettes of activity. A goal of the research will be to attempt to resolve the disparate nature of the desert&#8217;s strange, isolated events into a cohesive, related narrative. I&#8217;ll be posting updates along the way (as free desert wi-fi allows) and a longer, more thorough paper after the conclusion (hopefully). <\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Some highlights will include:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiraljetty.org\/\">Smithson&#8217;s Spiral Jetty<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nv.doe.gov\/nts\/tours.htm\">The Nevada Nuclear Testing Site<\/a> \/\/ Maquiladora Settlements in Juarez \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsmr-history.org\/\">White Sands Missile Museum<\/a> \/\/ Death Valley \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinati.org\/\">Donald Judd&#8217;s Marfa Installations<\/a> \/\/ Mexico City \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b2science.org\/\">BioSphere 2<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/doublenegative.tarasen.net\/\">Heizer&#8217;s Double Negative<\/a>  \/\/ Canyonlands National Park \/\/ Informal urban growth along the U.S.\/MEX border \/\/ foreclosed ghost towns in the Phoenix suburbs<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>view the original proposal <a href=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/21\/fast-cheap-and-out-of-control-without-architects-or-why-infrastructure-wont-save-us\/\">Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control (Without Architects) or: Why Infrastructure Won\u2019t Save Us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View Kinne Road Trip in a larger map My route for the next three (four? five? &#8211; funded fellowships and the absence of steady employment allow the luxury of improvisation) weeks. The overall, zoomed-out, google-eye view of the trip revolves around research through observation of structures, installations, natural landforms, urban growths, manipulated landforms, etc. constructed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,17],"tags":[83,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}