12.11.2008

Designer Plywood

I practically live on a construction site. Every vacant lot in a 20 block radius is being developed. This is just the natural progression of urbanization. It's ok, although ask any of the middle america transplants to the neighborhood, and just listen to their ironic genetrification woes.

I personally get excited by all the motion. Even the pneumatic pile driving that begins at approximately 7:30 each morning.

Pile driver machines strike enormous tree trunks into the ground with great force. This is the way that the building can rest on firm rock deep below the dirt.

Before big apartment buildings are inhabited, there are heaps of neat treasures to look at on construction sites. Sometimes these sites are enclosed by chain link fences. Other times, plywood is used instead of fences. If you are lucky, the plywood has little windows cut out so regular people can look in.

Lots of activities happen late at night. For example, one where boys and some girls write on the plywood with paint. It is not legal. If they are sneaky enough they do it often without getting caught. Some people even do this on trains. Trains are exciting because they travel places and then so does the pictures painted on them.

Recently I found that plywood travels places too: