art not codes?

When I'm in an insane hurry to hit the road (as I am right now), there's nothing more disconcerting than the feeling that there's an obligation to get a post up ASAP, but there's no time to think about what to write, much less write it.

Fortunately, Clayton Cramer reminded me of a favorite topic last night Cargotecture! This has long been a favorite topic of mine (long before the invention of the word "cargotecture" -- but I guess it takes a word), and as Cramer points out, there are many shipping containers -- 18 million to be exact. What a waste.

They're cheap, easily-affordable housing, and because they're personal property, they can be packaged as art. And homeless artists can work on their art 24 hours a day without having to "reside" anywhere. As I opined last night, Cargotecture could:

  • Solve the homeless problem, and give a lot of people something to do.
  • Artists can put them in vacant industrial wastelands, and live for very little.
  • Baffle the bureaucrats and building code people, as it's not real estate, but personal property.
  • Best of all, you could call it art.

    They can't prevent me from having art on my vacant lot!

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    (More art here.)

    posted by Eric on 12.12.06 at 08:15 AM





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