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I feel like I’ve been spending too much time with the team hang’n out in the tepee smoke’n peyote and watch’n Pan’s Labyrinth. Just kidding we keep edge!
I actually just got back from sensitivity training because my workplace comments about painting Steven Hawkins and Terry Schiavo having phone sex could be seen as offensive. Fuck it! Another hot day of bust’n bricks in the sun, made more enjoyable by the cast of dicks I roll with.
Perish, Dre, Jimboe, Ges Connector to follow…..
As some of you may know, I spent last weekend photographing in the rust belt; two nights in Gary, Indiana and one in Chicago, Illinois. The reason I spent so much time in a town many of you may never have even heard of is that it’s one of the most abandoned cities in the country.
If you’re not familiar with the plight of Gary, Indiana, their problems started back in the mid-20th century, when Gary was still a thriving, model American city. In the 1960’s, the city’s principal employer, U.S. Steel, began massive layoffs as foreign competition in the steel marketspace increased. As jobs evaporated in Gary, many families moved away to surrounding communities to find work; whites in particular fled the city in what became known as “white flight”, as the racial balance began to tip further and further the opposite direction.
The population, once approaching 180,000 is less the 80,000 today, 84% of which are now black. Predictably, in the face of decades of economic depression, crime has increased dramatically, to the point where today, violent crime in Gary is over 160% of the Indiana state average, which is itself somewhat higher than the national average. Many of the city’s most identifiable structures were destroyed or damaged in the “Great Gary Arson”, an October night in 1997 when some disgruntled locals ran amok and set fire to a great many structures in central Gary, damaging or destroying several landmarks in the process, such as the old Memorial Auditorium, and the building in this picture, the long-abandoned City Methodist Church.
The point is that, these days, Gary isn’t exactly a terribly hospitable town for a white guy to go walking around at night with expensive camera gear. It’s the epitome’ of a place where you have to “keep your head on a swivel”, as they say, because not only are potential threats approaching and passing in cars, but there’s also an unusual amount of foot traffic in Gary, even after dark. It’s not uncommon to see groups of young African-American men roaming the streets, seemingly just looking for something – anything – to get into…just to break up the monotony of living in a poverty-stricken, dead-end town with a bleak future.
But on to the photograph...
I had shot this old church once before, back in 2008, on an expedition with a Milwaukee photographer who had brought me up to teach him how to light paint. Since then, a section of the ceiling in the sanctuary had collapsed, and I felt compelled to see and shoot it again, wondering exactly how the collapse might look in a proper night photograph.
So when I stopped by the old CMC as my first shooting location on my first night in Gary, I was excited to see and shoot this beautiful and popular urbex venue. But my excitement quickly turned to trepidation with what I discovered after making my way inside…
Night, full moon, ambient sodium vapor light from street lamps, natural strobe inside the decaying sanctuary.
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you can tell it was a computer lab by the remains of at least 10 computers. when schools close, they pretty much just leave everything to rot inside them.
Ever wondered what your dog's doing when you are out of the house!
Pentax 645D with 55mm
Profoto Soflight reflector gridded on the left, soft box right for fill.
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New custom! I really like "Breaking Bad". So I decided to make this figure.
Head I made with Fimo plastic and base too.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that Salvation Mountain was the most impressive thing I've ever seen. The combination of scale (it's pretty huge), effort (it's made of giant bales of hay, and artificial trees cobbled together from telephone poles that are chained & have had rebar drilled through them, and mud, all of which is then doused in liberal coats of waterproof paint) & fervor (every square inch is a message from Jesus) is more impressive than, say, the Watts Towers or even a mainstream accomplishment like the Disney Hall in downtown L.A., as this project is all the work of one man, now 76 years old, working without electricity or running water way out in the desert, hundreds of miles from the nearest big city, and dozens of miles from the nearest small city.
Im so stoked for the new season of breaking bad. the walt fig is still a wip, he needs glasses and his hat. but i suck at painting glasses. k. the bags of meth are about the size of a penny, and can open and close at the top, as they are made from actual ziplock bags. i cut up the bags, melted the sides shut, and cut up clear and blue peices. sorry for the bad photography of the bags. they were very difficult to get a good photo of :P i stayed up almost all night last night watching season 5 on netflix, as they just added it. the whole time, i was cutting up translucent pieces and making little bags. enjoy!
BAG TUTORIAL> www.flickr.com/photos/80199242@N08/9462749186/in/photostr...
Police arrested a rooming house tenant after his meth lab caught fire. They took him away and no one was hurt in the fire.
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Meth Lab on Frozen Field
February is about long dog walks across icy fields with coyotes yipping and wind whipping.
We are stocky and invincible...
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XP2010 leads XP2008 past a house fire at Coolaroo on ST24 XPT service from Southern Cross to Central in Sydney