Floating Fences

So subtopia has become one of my favorite blogs, just after ours. The idea of a fence that changes with the dunes. . . pretty damn awesome. Link below.

://subtopia.blogspot.com/2009/03/floating-fences-1-imperial-county.html

NAFTA

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/super-nafta-land.html

check out this project

Oral Stories and Data on Mexican Immigration

The Mexican Immigration Project by Princeton

This source has a collection of data and stories surrounding Mexican Immigration.

http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/stories-en.aspx

simulate the Struggles of mexican immigrants

Tourists can simulate the Mexican immigration

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/16/usa-immigration-mexico-tourists-simulation

We are in the Texas A&M Newspaper

Apparently we made enough of an impression to be put in their newspaper.

Maider Lopez - from CCA

This is the personal website of the guy who did the painted soccer field on the public plaza.
http://www.maiderlopez.com/

There are a couple really interesting projects--all that deal with how you can take an existing space and add to them without altering the architecture, usually by painting or installing, and double the use of that space to make you reconsider it.

"A Field Guide to Military Urbanism"

Check out this blog.  Its called SUBTOPIA, and is written by Bryan Finoki. Very cool.

The most recent post is about The Border Tunnel Capitol of America.