There’s a lot of things to talk about backlogging in my mind. it’s a maze up there.

but one thing i must say… two weekends ago i was in Lansing MI for a beautiful wedding of two friends of mine. while there, someone cool showed me around downtown lansing/east lansing / MSU. it was fun. What was particularly interesting on this saturday night was how cool Lansing looked. great architecture, where we were, not too much gross institutional looking buildings etc. And there was even a real cool “main street” feel with restaurants and such, real cute and welcoming. But the surprising thing was… It was EMPTY. like tumble weeds blowing down the sidewalks. crazy! down by MSU mind you, they have like 20 restaurants all right next to each other, and it was busy. (obviously… it’s a HUGE campus) But it all seemed fairly quaint. and then i saw the GM plant that is closed and that GM is tearing down. Part of me wanted to run through it all and separate it all into recycleable piles… but i didn’t. (obviously) and another part of me wanted to gather alll the artists around and make a HUGE art project before they kept tearing it down, and then let them tear it down. My sculpture prof had the opportunity to do that once in a house they were tearing down. He let his students loose on the rooms to do what they will (cut holes in the floor etc.) because it was going to be torn down anyways.

what was the most interesting contrast to me, was this past saturday i was driving through the city of Rochester… main st. to be exact, and our buildings suck. there’s no public space on the first floor of these buildings. part of that is due to the damn sky ways, walk way, covered things we’ve got cause it’s cold here. but we don’t have the “main street” that Lansing, or holland for that matter, have. it was weird. I’ve walked all over the city from the Eastman theater (generally my starting point) and the only place that’s anything near a “main st” is down by east and alexander. and it’s fully of bars. So it doesn’t get any action until like 10pm anyways. I mean you’ve got Park and Monroe, but they’re spread out, and not main street like. it surprised me. But i think more people were out in the city of Rochester than they were in the city of Lansing.

odd.