Living in Isolated Places

[Woebot]

here's a really remarkable advoko makes. this guy max is really an amazing nutcase. he did all this in ONE YEAR!!!

 

[Woebot]

 

[Woebot]

@Matthew you might be interested in Bolo Bolo? It's a sort've utopian vision of a more ecological society. Quite fun.

It includes a lot of stuff on rewilding the city, coupled with the ability to travel for adventure to different "bolos" some of which would be more isolated than others.

Bolo'Bolo - p.m.

A playful description of a world composed of small community units (Bolos) after capitalism. Originally published by Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia in 1983. Taken from http://o500.org/

libcom.org

The guy who wrote it has set up some cool souding communities himself in Zurich: http://o500.org/

i had a read and i thought this was very interesting.

the detail of his vision of how these should be organised gets quite close to being like building a dungeons and dragons world.

 

[john eden]

i had a read and i thought this was very interesting.

the detail of his vision of how these should be organised gets quite close to being like building a dungeons and dragons world.

Yeah I think the detail is what makes it fun, glad you found it useful.

 

[Woebot]

from my correspondent gordon kennedy

 

[catalog]

good video. i like how he calls the meadow his church, and he likes to build round and in the ground.

 

[sus]

certainly one of my fantasies!

this great documentary on a chap living in patagonia

It's interesting how he keeps up with the papers and radio, despite camping out away from the main world 50-some years. They're just dispatches from a world he probably only vaguely remembers

 

[sus]

not keen on this though. not my poison. a bit twee and somehow jane austen-ish.

I'M TRAD, DAD!

 

[catalog]

my mate went to colorado a couple of years ago to go on one of these earthship courses



but he's not going that way now, going for a more trad build.

 

[Leo]

drove through west Texas about 15 years ago, stayed in a few towns with populations of 500-1,000. it was great and everyone we encountered was fine, but it was also oddly unsettling. enjoyable, yet also so isolated that you felt a bit vulnerable.

 

[catalog]

there's something weird about all these people, it's a rejection ultimately, of 'normality'. something has gone wrong somewhere.

 

[luka]

Yes that's astute of you catalog. I'm impressed. They've often been nonced (85% of cases) leading to a fear of humanity in general.

 

[catalog]

if you watch the dan price video, there's something so weird about him, he reminds me of crumb, got this odd mumble. and at one point he says that he's made his current place so small cos he got sick of people coming round to see his other places.

 

[catalog]

certainly one of my fantasies!

this great documentary on a chap living in patagonia

good film, i ended up watching all 4 parts. decent sheep slaughter session. and i liked the fenc eit took him 4 years to build. interesting what he says about how you need animals to survive. patagonia is such a weird place, sort of brutal as well as beautiful.

 

[version]

decent sheep slaughter session.

#bloodlust

 

[catalog]

whats good about the sheep eating bit is they just cook it plain, eat it straight off the bone.

there doesn't look to be much chilli or garlic sauce going on. and he seems to generally live on canned food.

 

[IdleRich]

here's a really remarkable advoko makes. this guy max is really an amazing nutcase. he did all this in ONE YEAR!!!

This guy is too ridiculous though, it puts you off even trying.

 

[IdleRich]

Not that even crossed my mind to even vaguely consider trying but still you know I mean.

 

[catalog]

i've not watched that one yet. good sleeper thread this.

 

[IdleRich]

there's something weird about all these people, it's a rejection ultimately, of 'normality'. something has gone wrong somewhere.

With them or with society though eh?