just had a thought, not fully formed but thought i’d throw it out… thinking about the story of the man living in the crane atop the world’s tallest building. and there’s an undeveloped space in chicago between the river and the raillines that some folks call the Brown Lands. I remember once hearing a conversation that went broadly like this: “i heard there was a guy who lived out there for years in some sort of shack he’d made.” ” Yeah, I think William Upsky Wimsatt wrote about going out there and meeting that guys…”
I’m thinking about the rumor or the myth that surrounds people who step outside the norm and spaces that would seem unhabitable, yet are made so. is there some way to play with this? or to collect these stories? i say this even as i know i’ve promised myself to not do any more story recording projects since i’m so bad at the follow up of working with the material… but maybe they’re not sound recordings? maybe there’s some other way to deal with this?
just a thought…
