2004 — November — the work.group : collaboratively constructed hardcore architecture

movement systems +

00h45m12 / 29.Nov.2004
worker: john

i have spent quite a bit of time researching ways that we might both determine and then link (or vice versa) our stations geographically. i am not sure whether amsterdam and publius would be travelling on foot, bicycle, veg-diesel-powered scooter, or hoverbus (or whether you were anticipating group movement or sometimes intersecting individual movements). i thought we might be looking at a more (what we might now call) secondary or abject movement web. two systems that i have looked into are raillines and power transmission corridors. there is not a very condensed, coherent, or affordable source for plotting out routes using these two modes so i have begun using the online resource of usgs maps at the usgs website. you can use their map viewer and turn off all layers save the usgs quadrangles under topographic maps. these maps contain rail, power transmission, and other possible routes (waterways, state roads, and pipelines). so far i have determined a route that may have allowed amsterdam to reach remingtonton from atlanta. i am not sure whether the bulk of the documented travels should occur later when publius busts out of manhattanville. maybe they meet up in arlingtonton? what have you been cooking up? do you have any liturgical criteria for the picaresque sequence of stations that are to document this cook’d up realm?