Borderline Colonias: November 2010

Sunday 28 November 2010

Las Lomas on street view!!!!!

find Colonia Las Lomas on google maps

I genuinely thought my project was tackling third world corners of US as to paraphrase various official definitions of COLONIAS.
It has streetview! my little town in Czech Republic, world famous Austerlitz, where Napoleon won a battel of 3 imperors

does

NOT

have

street

view!

thank you

Stats

Stats to date

people people click on the blog and write me comments.

thank you!

Explicit houses

after my flatmate and I have brought up to our second floor a tonn of wood bag by bag yesterday. And counted that it took us approx 30 mins to bring 10 bags each.

and we had to go:

10 bags him alone

break

10 bags both of us

break

10 bags both of us

break

3 bags both of us and a nice friend, but he had bigger bag

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so 60 bags all together

we have meanwhile butnt 2 bags throughout the day/evening

- weekend (day and evening use of the flat)

that makes it

5 bags Monday to Friday (only evening use of the flat)

4 bags Saturday and Sunday (day and evening)

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9 bags a week

60/9 = 6.6 weeks.

that is month and a half.

it cost us £ 80 (which is very lucky cheap)

plus 3 man hours - say £20an hour

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£140

We were quite happy with the exercise, so

we would minus an average £9 per session (1hr) of typical exercise in London

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£104 for 6.6 weeks of warmth

this is what happens when brains do repetitive work :)

together with ongoing Pliny Fiskation:

EXPLICIT HOUSES.

I think its time that not only Web interface, but energy consumption

was self evident/explicit/self explanatory again!

and so the structure please - as per manual idea before.

thank you

Micro finances - TED

TED - Jessica Jackley speech and her project $100 loans

she was inspired by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus

Free Gift - initial idea

photo courtesy: Chomutovsky.denik.cz

Creating a pavement like sweeping snow each in front of their own.

Dark strips start popping up and disappear again under a layer of white

to eventually link into a road that leads somewhere.

Would the neighbours collectively cut back into their own to offer a strip
each, that would link them to Somewhere?

Would they build the parts themselves as they gathered to fight for
sewage and electricity and water?

Public space is a sign of not surviving, sheltering inside, but spending time out and
around, parading, visiting, it is the living room of the city.
So far the Colonia is bedrooms. with a post office, where everyone flashes their chevy.