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please find here the loaf concocted from the 3 timelines. this contains the redistributed fragments of my 3 drawings. i plan to pollinate it with your sectional info once they are all posted at the proper resolution. the grey indicates the high water line.

tagged: birnbeck, drawing, loaf, necro

i know this looks like a mess. it is. but stay tuned for some clarification of my thinking. this is my sectional loaf above cobbled together from the corresponding fragments of your sections.

this is the above drawing with key notes and some diagrammatic extents of components.

this might be the ugliest drawing on sisyphean. this is a plan diagram of what i am seeing in these messes.

to walk through it, i see the basic structure as 1) two large cofferdams on either side, bridged by a 2) landform that wraps around a 3) stacked tower element.

1) in the basin created by the cofferdams below sea level is a lush park and bird sanctuary. the invasive species grow over the belgian gates to create odd topiary. the zeppelins are tethered to these low points. the carpet of green grows up the sides of the outer landforms.

2) there are 2 landforms that rise up from the cofferdams and 1 that bridges them. the 2 insular ones house picturesque elements such as the martyrs tower and the ruins. the central landform has the binary dwellings, the coffee parlour, a playing field (for larping), and the cellar and crypt.

3) the central landform creates a small cove from whose center a tower element arises. around the base of the tower is a beach and at its base is a cavernous built landscape that collects tidal water. the spine of the tower is a series of swimming locks that the bather can ascend. partway up is a large teleidoscope which casts colorful reinterpretations of the changing skies down onto the landforms as the sun passes.

btw, geometry as shown in the plan is irrelevant.

it isn’t labeled on your drawing, but i think this is represented by the green shaft in ‘the ugliest drawing on sisyphean’.

that green shaft was the bridge to the island. can your cryptoscope function as a connection to the mainland? or were you just vying for the ‘ugliest drawing’ title?

hmm, i did not realize that was a ‘bridge’; i thought it was a vertical shaft leading underground.

it was a plan?

can the thing you drew go into the sky instead of the earth?

it does both!

brilliant!!!

jt writes:

can the thing you drew go into the sky instead of the earth?

island plan. more to follow.

the olives burst.

here is the requested plan overlay.

tight, that makes perfect sesnse. can we keep those piers that extend into the water? i think that would be a decent nod to historicity or some shit and that they would be fun to use for soap box derbies.

i definitely like the one that is just a ramp into the water, i dont see why we wouldnt keep them all!

here is an updated plan of the loaf. please not that the drawing needs to be mirrored for proper orientation.

mirrored through the kaleidescope?

no, more like through a vertical line at the edge of the paper. i traced this off of an ink drawing on the opposite face of the page.

also, the lighter areas are the subterranean spaces.

if you couldn’t read it, the access to roald dahl’s buried tower is now called the ‘choculus.’ i thought of it on the bus this morning.

i read that; i thought it referred to the tower, but there is also a ‘chocolate tower’ label. why were you on a bus?

ps, i think something is fucked with our host with regards to mysql; i keep getting errors for the ‘features’ link, but if i refresh the page, they go away. they seem to appear randomly, and certainly nothing on our end is changing or broken. i have hidden the features, temporarily; perhaps we can fold them into the ‘pages’ section of wp.

i was on the bus because i don’t have a car.

i have had problems pretty regularly where comments or entries won’t load or on the front page where i click ‘previous entries’ nothing will happen.

you should have bought my truck; i would have traded it for a copy of ‘john adams‘.

i think the features error caused everything that came ‘after’ it in the code to be blank, so you would only see the title bar and the side bar. is that what you were experiencing? none of this is my fault.

where i click ‘previous entries’ nothing will happen

i see.

i would like to buy a truck. is yours on blocks at pat’s house?

are you in rr?

i didnt think that site worked anymore.

are you in ram’s cliff?

pile up!

where is that happening? is that the basic construction method of the island?

those are the aviaries and binary dwellings.

are you in moby dick?

dwellings and entrance to people’s cove.

also, in case you haven’t noticed, the pop-up windows for images don’t have scrollbars, but you can use your arrow keys to make the image scroll, if it is too big to fit on the screen.

plan update:

i am interested in these sort of masonry stacking techniques that are appearing. i think the idea of stacking and forming masses out of smaller objects that are not your typical block could be interesting. list of stackable forms: keyboard keys, jacks, stoppers, wedges and shims, tubs, thimbles.

it is hard to see because i fucked up the drawing trying to ‘behave badly.’ note to self, always scan before attempting to ‘behave badly.’ anyway, this is pretty much a section cut in an arc through the major east/west axis of the plan. i think i am going to do some photoshop studies over it. it is actually fairly detailed if you save it and zoom in. i will field any questions you might have.

er, of course by the above i mean: this desecrated document of folly was found in the smouldering ruins of rdahl’s chocolate silo as the ashlar stones were being laid on the eastern landform.

i can see the silo in there!

hopefully you can see other things as well. i wasn’t sure if it was logical that you would find a drawing of the thing in ruins inside the thing? wtfever.

logical

rotfl!

touché