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Soda. Pictures of those (mostly plastic) colorful signs on small businesses. I think there's something strangely interesting about their design and variety.
West. Photos from "out west" -- the land of wide-open highways, neon, and googie.
Everydot. My attempt to take at least one picture of every dot on the map. How many dots so far? Not too many, but I have Northwest Minnesota and parts of North Dakota and the Rainy River covered. The pictures are raw and unedited. That means you'll see through-windshield bug splatters and weird angles. Try to see any one picture as part of a whole.
Milk. In a pre-Cub-and-Holiday-Store era, it appears these signs must have dotted neighborhoods everywhere. Now they're mostly markers of places long closed.
Groceries. The close (though more often rural) relative of milk stores, small grocery stores seem to be vanishing nearly as fast as stores that advertise milk in bright neon letters. Small towns seemed to be the only holdout, but with the demise of Hartz, they too are disappearing quickly.
Liquor. Liquor stores are delightful anachronisms. When other places pulled down outdated neon and flashing lights, the liquor stores left them up. Indifference? Thrift? The recognition that good design is never outdated? I think we know what the answer isn't.
Metropia. There are signs from the past that seem to be looking toward a Jetsons-like future. Antiquated design looks much more exciting to me than that of the present.
Laundry. One particularly interesting piece of Metropia is laundromats. Apparently, some designers felt that in the future we would all be doing our laundry in outer space. Bill Brown of dream whip has done some very beautiful laundromat photos.
Fargo. One hot, muggy summer evening, I took a walk around downtown Fargo. These are the results.
Motel. I stayed in a delightfully outdated motel in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The design there certainly wasn't the pinnacle even of 60's-ish motel decor, but it was outstandingly mediocre (like most motels of that vintage).
Painted Signs. Unlike archaeology, paintedsignology requires no digging -- only looking. And you'd be surprised the ancient stuff you see if you just look.

Detritus. Pictures of things that are falling apart.

Chow Mein. To me, this phrase makes me think "those crunchy noodles." Apparently, this means (or meant) "Chinese Food" to some.
Other Stuff. I've experimented in non-digital media, including Kodachrome, Polachrome, and Polaroid.