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Globalization, a Flat World, and Falling Roofs

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

What is depicted in the above image no longer exists. What little I saw of it, when it existed, was in shambles. Pieces of cardboard and stripped copper wiring were strewn across the floor. Scrawls intersected with airbrushed art. Light ended on concrete. Colors converged.
It was a beautiful place for what it was. A post-industrial […]

U.S. War Spending in Cartograms

Monday, May 12th, 2008

The decaying hull of a Titan I missile complex. The development costs – just to get these bases up and running – ran over 11 trillion inflation-adjusted dollars, more than ten times what the Iraq war is expected to cost. Despite their high costs, not a single Titan I missile was launched in the defense […]

Location 51

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

All too often, I get caught up in the minutiae of photographing historic structures. I’m completely discounting a large portion of the built environment — the recently abandoned, the recently built, and the still-active. I simply choose not to focus on these locations partly because seeing old buildings in the context of a post-industrial milieu […]

 
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