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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. |
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West. Photos from "out west" -- the land of wide-open
highways, neon, and googie. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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other places pulled down outdated neon and flashing lights, the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that good design is never outdated?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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Fargo. One hot, muggy summer evening, I took a walk
around downtown Fargo. These are the results. |
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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 I stayed in a delightfully outdated motel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). |
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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. |
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Other Stuff. I've experimented in non-digital media,
including Kodachrome,
Polachrome, and Polaroid. |