Sunday Afternoon at La Pulga

Thanks to everyone who came out to La Pulga yesterday. I think that was a great success. We owe a debt to the second year students who made the big white model. That thing was the total object. Many of us busted our butts out there today but Sergio really deserves the ultimate credit for our success. He and that big white model did a dance all afternoon for the people.

Today, Monday, we'll focus on the traffic models & the readings.
Wednesday we'll look more at the traffic stuff and we'll discuss as a group the next weekend's flea market visit. We can have the same space we had Sunday for this coming weekend. We need to cut some projects, like the laser cuttings, and focus more intently on performances and recordings out there. The panorama images were admired. People were interested in seeing if they got into the picture. They make a great record of the day at the market. They could be much more uniform. We need to do more (and better) of these sorts of recordings.


Think of your traffic model as the vector base for your further work, a sort of site made up of flows of infrastructure in between, under, and over which formal and programmatic surfaces are organized. You are constructing a site made up of infrastructural flows into which you manipulate large formal and programmatic surfaces of park and market.

We need to deliver a grade to you before we all leave for Spring Break. Please update your server space so that all the assignments and videos are there.
Videos: Garden, Shopping, PkMkt_FirstVideo, PkMkt_Consumer, PkMkt_Merchant
ai or pdf files: Garden, Shopping, Traffic
Three folders total: GG, Shopping, PkMkt

Both Marti and I can really see this project taking shape in great ways. The people at the flea market showed that they were going to look if we show it to them. That's one of the best and most respectful audiences I've seen for this kind of work. They seemed to understand and appreciate urban issues. Letting them ask questions and answering them with our own questions set a stage for what you do along the way.

This week I'd like to feature some iteration of your traffic studies out there. Traffic was a clear bridge with them. Everyone I talked to I started hammering on the traffic issues and I got a lot of feed back and a lot of support for the issue of "in the neighborhood" or "out on Texas" traffic vectors. People were quick to point out that it's hard to find a way up Texas Ave. from the south. Nan Young (Penney) seemed to be a supporter of traffic changes. Certainly, on a day like yesterday Avenues H, J, and K all get a little "treacherous" to cross by Lubbock standards.