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Frank Lloyd Wright and His Forgotten Larkin Building

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

It’s a Saturday. Such an excellent day for documentary films. Of course, if I ever catch myself watching documentary films on Friday, Ganesh forbid, I will have to admit that my soul forever rests in the land of nerdom.
But it’s a Saturday. And a Saturday is a perfectly acceptable day for an edifying documentary film […]

An Abandoned Amusement Park in Berlin

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Living in Berlin demands that you actively seek out its hidden haunts and break barriers. The city’s penchant for blending the bizarre with the ordinary makes it the perfect place for curiosity-seekers and non-conformists. Concealed within the lush greenery of the Treptow Park and barred by a rusty iron fence is the abandoned […]

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 […]

 
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