writer + photographer // exploring postindustrial america and beyond // [email protected]

Joined January 2021
I spent three months exploring the american rust belt, here’s how it went
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terrifying
222 Building (1951) Appleton, WI
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it’s so funny to see american influencers praise serbian society when belgrade doesn’t even have a sewage treatment plant
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I can’t believe ohio is real
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had a slight mental break bc I realized I lost my wallet and then saw this on the horizon
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crazy how you can spot dow’s midland hq from space
The percentage of adults with a Ph.D. Read more on Substack at toddrjones.substack.com/p/th….
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municipal brutalism bloom and sedden, city hall, newark, oh (1967)
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guys I have big news
Ohio’s giant basket is back on the market for $8.5 million. Built in 1997 as the headquarters of the Longaberger Company, this seven-story building in Newark, Ohio was designed to look like the brand’s famous Medium Market Basket — but at the scale of a 180,000-square-foot Class A office building. The listing includes a 21.5-acre campus, capacity for 500+ employees, 84 windows, glass elevators, a central atrium, a fitness center, a media room, 555 parking spaces, and 25 heated underground executive spots. Longaberger left the building in 2016, and later plans to turn it into a boutique hotel never fully happened. Now one of America’s strangest corporate headquarters is waiting for its next owner. Would you turn it into offices, a hotel, or something completely different?
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wait till you find out what they say in polish
why do polish ppl, no matter how good they are at english say, “the communism” 😭😭like “during the communism”
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I feel like philly could make a killing on cream cheese-based tourism from europe
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war flashbacks to a whatsapp call from poczta polska telling me they revoked my package bc the type of mail I sent doesn’t exist
Every time you go to the post office the person in front of you has a problem that has never happened before in all of history.
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these cavafy lines have always stuck with me
unfortunately as i’ve gotten older i’ve learned that having an incessant need to travel does in fact mean you’re running away from something
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and by stuck with me, I mean endlessly haunted, reshaped my entire life, etc
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bagged a $25 million grant nbd
Replying to @gmoult
What have you done to save those churches you're so close to?
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balconies are back baby
I wrote a piece in @ArchitectureAU about the new Lacebark apartments in Sydney In particular, how the design trades generic glass-box urbanism for an expressive form carefully attuned to sun and shade architectureau.com/articles/…
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a bank so grand the architect signed it louis sullivan, home building association bank, newark, oh (1914)
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what a building
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oh we’re so back
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had flashbacks to this polka my dziadzia would sing to us growing up and turns out it’s a revolutionary song against the czar
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never a thought when rust belt churches go up in flames, but infinite emotion for a city they only just heard of in europe
It’s hard to put into words how upsetting these images are
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if you can’t locate limoges on a map you aren’t allowed to care about this
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