It’s almost too damn easy to forget I even have a website anymore, since I got so busy with studies and work (which are going great, thanks for asking). So let’s sit down and have a little chat over a SuperChill Root Beer: summer’s almost underway in Duluth, meaning that it’s hovering somewhere above forty degrees. I have not been out too much yet this year besides little scuffles in cramped brick drains and a few escapades in various abandoned industrial sites around the North Shore, but I hope to do… stuff.
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Hello, readers… sorry I haven’t shown my face around lately; getting a bit too famous for this nook in the interblondes. Instead, work and school are ruling my life–I’m sure the most common excuse by bloggers since dial-up modems stalled out while thinking over those head-spinning 2.3MB shockwave files.
But this isn’t an altogether idle update! I have two pieces of news: I am less a camera for a while until I can scratch an extra $200 out of my following tax returns. A pathetically small amount, but keep in mind I’m a starving/college student/artist/speeder. I have tickets, rent, doughnuts and books to buy before I can get my coveted new camera. Which one? I’ve decided on the Canon D-40. I’ve sold the 300D with my 18-50mm and 55-200mm Sigma lenses for what they’re worth, and photo updates will just have to be retroactive to a bit.
If I get desperate I’ll climb a tower crane by Lake Superior and take some photos with my cell phone or something–it’s warm enough!
The second wave of information is concerning a new publication, featuring me! If you live in Duluth, MN, go pick up a wet copy of the ‘High Pains Drifter‘, an edgy underground (sadly, not literally) periodical that’s good for reading. Click on the cover thumbnail for a larger pic!
***UPDATE***
Click the link below for the scanned-in article!
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Beginning in 1885, Chisago County Poor Farm operated about one mile East of North Branch, a rural town an hour north of Saint Paul, MN. Life on the poor farms of Minnesota in the late 1800s were pretty bleak and based more on the goal of survival than leading an enriched, cultured life. Residents worked a surrounding county-owned farm to grow their own sustenance while the taxpayers paid the difference. The people who found themselves in this life could be described as elderly, destitute, and it wouldn’t be unusual for those with special handicaps to be committed alongside, especially in regions where the insane asylums (the usual destination for persons with mental handicaps at the time) were overfull or nonexistent. Read the rest of this entry »
Between the lines of tacky photo archives and a myriad of g-g-g-ghost resources, sometimes a gem shines through.
The Holy Family Orphanage sits on the edge of the downtown district of Marquette, Michigan. It is a large, imposing building with most of the windows boarded over and all of the doors bolted shut with steel beams. Overgrown, neglected pine trees obscure the front side of the building with a certain grandeur with consecutive masonry balconies under collapsing arches. I really wish that I could find a historical photograph of Holy Family, but if there are any they seem tucked away under stacks of church archives.
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The calendar that’s been in development for almost a year is complete, and available for hanging next to your computer! There are 25 ordered and another order is on a hairpin trigger. How can you get one? Email me and I’ll put you on “the list” and within the next day or so we’ll get your payment information into PayPal and you’ll find your calendar in the mail!
Best part? All of the profits go straight to Ninj’s Transplant Fund at Toronto General. Since it’s that time of year, feel free to transfer any additional funds with your calendar order that you want to donate. If you don’t know how or where to send your donations, this is just an easy way to get the money that matters into the right hands.
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