i work in the art department (ok, i am the art department) for a trumpet manufacturing company. i am surrounded by machines and tools every day. most of the people i work with make fun of me a little because they catch me snapping photos of brass, spools of solder, on/off switches, stacks of metal stamps, spilled epoxy... i think all of these things make for great compositions. every now and then i get to go along when we shop for new tooling... and i LOVE this. abandoned machine shops, dirty warehouses, massive spaces filled with greasy tools heaped in piles... a lonely chair... someone's gloves left on their work bench the day the business closed it's doors. these industrial ghost towns are hauntingly beautiful. i have friends and family members that have been directly affected by the mass exodus of manufacturing from minnesota... well, from america. i have seen the "leftovers" of so many industrial buildings that i can't really believe there are any left. watching people swoop in after a business has been auctioned off is a bit like watching vultures picking apart a carcass. i could go on and on about how i worry that no one knows how to build, grow or fix anything these days... and that it's going to be interesting to watch a society of people incapable of taking care of their own basic needs continue on into the coming century... but instead i will just show you the photos. enjoy.
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Painted Veil
7/21/2011 06:39:45 am
Nice photography Jen.
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Painted Veil
7/21/2011 09:30:25 am
How's the restraining order against you working out? You ugly attention whore.
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Painted Veil
7/22/2011 11:48:16 am
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?" The Merchant of Venice
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Peinted Vail
7/27/2011 01:20:37 pm
Hi, I'm fatuous, whiny and incapable of an intelligent statement without quoting Shakespeare. But I do have a talent for antagonizing Jen and an endless capacity for self-pity. Guess who I am?
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Painted Veil
8/13/2011 07:38:00 am
Jason Harrelson
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Jason Harrelson
8/13/2011 10:08:33 am
I cannot believe that spineless stalker is still bothering you. It is a sad world we live in when a US citizen who can pretty much make anything of himself, has to go out of his way to act like a jackass. Seriously, stop with the games, all of Jen's friends are SICK OF YOU and your shameless threats!
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