Earth is a Machine.

by graham carroll. cinema, photography, cities, creeks, transit, regional history, OKC.

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RKG

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Bobby Jean

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My new Neighborhood 

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Tower Study 1 American Century Investments Building, Kansas City, MO

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Goodnight, OK

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Ron Clark Park

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Somewhere in west OKC.

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This house was built in the 1920's. There used to be a big Oak tree in the front yard but it was damaged in an ice storm, and the owners had it cut down. Not even a stump remains. The only evidence that the tree ever existed is the memory of standing in my front yard and hearing a shrieking crack as the main bough broke. I watched the ice covered branches fall, like a great crystal chandelier collapsing under its own weight. When the branch came to rest, the tree seem rejuvenated, as if a great burden had been relieved by gravity and the storm.

The tree trimmers came the following Thursday in a big orange truck and hauled off the broken tree. They extracted the ancient roots, leaving a big hole. The owners acted quickly, filling the aperture with fresh Oak wood chips. 

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Canal currents

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Southbound I-29

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The Spillway

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Jurassic Creek

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There's a small creek bed cut in the soft rubber of her cheek. It bursts its banks when she thinks of jelly fish floating in cold, inland brine.

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Oklahoma City has 3 reservoirs.

#1 Lake Overholser (Constructed in 1919)

#2 Lake Hefner (Constructed in 1947)

#3 Lake Stanley-Draper (Constructed in 1963)

Lake Hefner is fed by water from Lake Overholser via a canal. Strangely enough, Hefner is uphill from Overholser. Pictured here is the pump house that pumps water into the canal. 

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Our Tunnel Rat

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Windmill by firelight/starlight.