As we were talking about the All- American tendency towards Graphomania – that is to cover whatever , weherever surface with words , signs , pictures , promos and messages – I’d like to muse about the paradoxon of those benches which are lettered with some sort of propaganda . Installed at one more or…
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
A Road is a Road is a Road
… or is it? – Today´s Route 66 is a puzzle of sections and stretches from various stages of street surface technology. As the extremly interesting “Route 66 Study Act of 1990″ remarks: “It can be argued that the miracle of the 20th century was not the automobile, but the construction of the vast network…
Support Our Troops | Have Fun
While Albuquerque Journal – left box @ Weather Section – daily indicates the Level of FLYING THE COLORS ( see czz scrapbook below ) … Iraq- Veterans have to be glad if they may rise back on their legs at all . Mother Jones shows the fotos . Be a strong Boy : Face it…
PITSTOP # 12 : Route 66- Laundromats
Time to do some laundry , eh ? – Time to lay out the cards ? – Time to slow down the EXTREME FILING …. inventing “pitstops” and sub- “pitstops” and further “parts’ n pieces” with “sequels” and sub- “sequels” ? – Touché ! – Righty right , Ladies and Gentlemen : The Grand Tour…
PITSTOP #11 : Paradis Artificiels 3 : Vegas Slot Shots
Talking ’bout Belief : I am proud to introduce Honorable Vegas , aka City of Sin , to this Sunday Morning Service . Don’t tell me , you’re still into your Hippy- Grandpa’s FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS yet ! – This whole Gonzo- conception ( even though celebrated by Terry Gilliams’ 18,5 Million-…
PITSTOP #11 : Paradis Artificiels 2 : Movie Theatres
Driving through back- door America on the tiny highways of the olden dayz , one doesn’t necessarily stumble upon old fashioned Movie Palaces anymore . They (as every sort of go- with- the- flow business ) packed up their things and hauled them out there into the vicinity of Business Loops, Malls , or some…
PITSTOP #11 : Paradis Artificiels 1 : Belief
“Attend the Church of Your Choice“: This message welcomes the traveller @ the typical entrances of Smalltown America. Even @ Grand Canyon, you may choose between the servics of seven denominations every sunday. Offering their blessings , some parishes and churches (as in TX , below ) come up with quite catchy slogans in order…
PITSTOP #10 : Fuel / Gas / Body / Collision :
Station / Garage / Service Mobility, mobility, mobility : This verbalism seems to capture the American Spirit better than any other . Whenever we asked ourselves : “… wovon leben die Menschen hier eigentlich ?” , the only possible answers seemed to be : Selling cars , repairing cars, granting loans on cars , vending…
PITSTOP #9: Vehicles – Route thru’ Another Tale
You may play this game with children , you may play this game with yorself : Lay out pictures and cards , move them to groups and sets , define thematic set memberschips . And voilà an applied version of set theory , transformed into narrative topology which may be inspiring … and also a…
Kopflos . Durchdringend
Ein jeder Freitod macht kopflos . Das Institut fuer Germanistik an der Universitaet Wien betrauert den Verlust seines Vorstandes , Alfred Ebenbauer. Kopflose Saetze der Politik , Pein “ueberraschend[er]” medialer Kopfzeilen. Was hinterlaesst ein Universitaetlehrer , dem es stets mehr um Struktur und Organisation von Wissen und dessen Schaffen ging , als um Publikationsindizes ?…
PITSTOP #8: Vehicles and other Creatures
Upon sorting our vast assortment of 66 photos it came to our attention that a considerable number of captures show a variety of artifical structures suitable for transportation of goods or humans. Attribute it to our scientific interest with structures, patterns and algorithms that we could not refrain from presenting you, our valued followers on…