Emp T. Lot

05/31/2011

Still no word from Mopper-Stapen on what my immediate future holds, but thanks everyone for your suggestions and comments!

05/26/2011

OOH! Tonight, people were setting off fireworks in the street in front of me. I do love a party!

05/25/2011

So my Mopper-Stapen Realty sign was taken down a few days ago...Did somebody take a chance on this lil' old lot?

05/19/2011

"The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it. When the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in."
from Going Home by Doris Lessing

05/19/2011

Use this random word generator to think of a new use for me!

Symphony: music venue. jam band, anyone?
Plaster: better not catch any of you getting plastered around me! there's already too much litter! but a neighborhood pub might be nice
Bucket: gardening/hardware store for other community gardens
Baffle: giant chess board? checkers was always my thing anyway
Reveal: local sculpture garden

Now it's your turn!

05/15/2011

Is Savannah ready for something like this?

In Mexico City, urban gardeners are turning blighted city lots into small but bountiful harvests where carefully planted crops are replacing piles of trash. ...

05/15/2011

05/15/2011

"Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it."

05/14/2011

Hey friends, what would you like to see happen to me? A community garden? More residences? A small park? Let's hear your ideas.

05/13/2011

In The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood said "A paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?"

I had to wonder, does the same apply to empty components of the built environment? Am I a living being, or a mere shell of the past?