Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Let's get lost


Pictured: Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty (1970).

If you had trouble escaping your cubicle this summer, it's not too late to escape via your cubicle, courtesy of the mysterious Center for Land Use Interpretation -- a virtual encyclopedia and user-friendly Baedeker to most of the ephemeral sites of the United States. Nuclear waste dumps, skunk works, industrial facilties, and eccentric cultural sites. I have a particularly soft spot for the land art.

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