April 22nd, 2010
Deterred by hail the size of nickels, I had to turn back from my pilgrimage to the Spiral Jetty. Instead I head for the Bonneville Salt flats, though the storm keeps me from exploring them fully. I decide to stay in Wendover on the Utah/Nevada state line. The Utah side of Wendover doesn’t have much beyond an abandoned and decrepit airport (though several of the buildings are home to the Center for Land Use Interpretations residency facility).
West Wendover – just over the Nevada state line – primarily consists of casinos gradually getting seedier as you drive west out of town. The Montego Bay really fulfills all expectations of ostentatious neon with it’s interior decor.
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April 22nd, 2010
Just south of Moab, Utah Albert and Gladys Christansen blasted their home in the base of a sandstone rock formation. Now a roadside tourist attraction in the most classic sense, the 12 minute tour through the house allows visitors to view the couples handiwork, including devotional paintings, coke-bottle lapidary scam-gems and some truly tragic taxidermy.
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April 22nd, 2010
I was fortunate enough to stay at Arcosanti – The experimental urban design and architecture laboratory that is a functioning community. Based on the arcological concepts of Paolo Soleri, the site has been continually under construction since the 1970’s.
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April 22nd, 2010
After several solo days in the desert. I met up with my friends Rachelle & Carrie in La Bajada, NM. The next day we went down to camp in the Gila Wilderness. Nearby in lush canyon we visited some ancient cliff dwellings.
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April 18th, 2010
On the roads that skim the back of the Sandia Mountains northeast of Albuquerque a museum of mechanical dioramas and a mighty collection of collections sits off of the “Turquoise Trail” that runs northwards toward Santa Fe. Ross Ward, a circus sign painter, crafted all the dioramas and labyrinth of structures that houses them over the course of 40 years. Tinkertown includes a bizarrely out of tune music automaton named Otto.
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April 18th, 2010
The Very Large Array Adjustable radio telescope. New Mexico seems to have a power to draw draw in all those who are interested in cosmic bodies.
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April 18th, 2010
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April 11th, 2010
Long have I heard of this masterpiece of autonomous construction. Experiencing it in person is far beyond what I could have ever expected.
The following audio I recorded today of Leonard Knight describing the construction of some of the interior “trees.”
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