my thought it is that we could either divide up these images, or each take all of them, printed on some arches as a base, and operate, providing depth, hiding places, tunnels, new views, destruction, copulation, inferno, tenebre, knived fingers, grottos, richness, darkness, blinding light, black gloved garroting, serpent handling, arcades, terraced farming, isolation cells, and landslides. This exhibition seems to be about lifestyle change. Other than making Glenwood Avenue not a 4 lane road with no sidewalks, I dont think I have any ideas other than trying to give people more fanciful, personal, stimulating spaces that dont patronize them, underestimate them, subdue them, and keep them safe.

Following a fruitful reconnaissance mission to Atlantic Station please find a shitton of high resolution photos for your working pleasure in this gallery.

Grey is still having trouble with his account it seems.

I will mention a couple of bullets we discussed. The wealth of back of house space is overwhelming, most of it is still not being used because the project is not complete, yet it appears to have all been built up front. If the project fails, it will remain deserted. The place is gritty, but only with the assistance of the neglected back of house and hinterland spaces that are distant from Central Park, we found syringes, condoms, graffiti, urine, plants growing through pavers, piles of pavers, abandoned vehicles, and roads to nowhere. The ‘downtown’ is not integral to the development, most of the housing is located in a binary relationship with the downtown, the commercial core is highly concentrated, its scale is falsely compressed, and has no relationship to the development at large, the new target and the ikea seem surprisingly to be the elements that are integrating themselves into the scale of aggregate that ATL STN is working with. The commercial/retail is incredibly theatrical and insular. ATL STN is insular, the perimeter is very Westworld or Disney with a loop of services around the perimeter, unfortunately here that perimeter faces the rest of the city of Atlanta.

We need to respond to this before 1pm today:

Details of proposal should be entered in this area. Include proposed dimensions, format of presentation, take-away items if any, and power or lighting requirements. If you are presenting current projects, please describe how the projects you have chosen fit into one or more of the 3 categories above or address issues pertaining to the health of inhabitants or user groups.

I told Ed it would be nebulous but maybe all of us just quickly throwing out some thoughts and prescriptions will give some focus to our thinking. Get on it, if you can.

the inaugural meeting for moda2007 took place this weekend in west philadelphia. the other inaugural meeting is scheduled sometime next week at eats, perhaps? adherence to the ‘program’ was discussed; it was determined to let the work roll and compose a text appropriate to moda’s concerns. the work will be divided up into three boards; speaking for the philadelphia workers, we plan on taking atl.stn images assigned by jt and inserting some image/drawing fragments from elsewhere – you can expect to see pretty much the same shite seen in ‘history of america’.

a few preliminary maps were composed; view them now to guide the three branches of work:

† continue reading let moda roll!

for those of you fortunate enough to learn wtf gerhard richter has to do with hdm’s candy warehouses, or how horny some other guy gets for alberti whilst waiting for his watercolours to dry, you may have had the opportunity to peep 66.6% of the current work.force at the acsa conference in center city philadelphia at the psfs building on saturday morning breaking off a live performance of the feature article, the completist. special thanks to brian ambroziak for his gracious, heartfelt, and satisfying inclusion of ‘the completist’ into his paper session, and special thanks to robert kelly for coming out to show his support. see you in the slide library!

atlantic_station_exit. john isn’t sharing his plan for moda, presumably because he has already completed the projekt and is waiting until it is too late for any feedback/bitching to shed some light on it for the rest of us. nevertheless, i drew up a plan of the interstate interchange next to atlantic station; i figured that would be as good of a place as any to alter the plans of people who are wishing to approach the site. maybe i/we can move up to howell mill or moore’s mill to head some others off the path.

also, should a projekt category be set up for moda v2, or is the ‘news’ section enough?